Compassionate Behavioral Health Specialist

Detroit Medical Center; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Detroit Medical Center Sinai-Grace Hospital seeks a patient care support professional to provide essential assistance and comfort to mental health patients under the supervision of a registered nurse.

You will conduct one-to-one interactions, facilitate group teaching, monitor patient observations, assist with examinations and procedures, and document care activities in collaboration with the clinical team.

Qualifications

• Two years of college study in behavioral health or the equivalent combination of education and experience in a mental health setting, and six months of related clinical experience working with mentally ill patients; OR Bachelor’s degree in a behavioral health discipline.

Responsibilities

• Provides one to one interaction with patients requiring intense care.
• Facilitates group teaching and task oriented sessions, observes patients relative to suicidal or homicidal intent and for effects of medication, assists professional staff with restraint and seclusion treatment procedures and with physical exams, obtains vital signs, performs specimen collection and dressing changes.
• Monitors and documents, according to prescribed standards, patient observations which may include mental status, response to treatment interventions and intensity of services provided.
• Completes court petitions, accompanies patients to court and testifies to substantiate the need for court ordered treatment.
• Communicates status of court activity to professional staff.
• Utilizes knowledge of Michigan Mental Health Code to educate patients and their families about rights guaranteed by the code.

Skills

Patient care

Group teaching

Vital signs

Documentation

Restraint assistance

Education

Two-year college

Bachelor's degree in behavioral health

Job description

Detroit Medical Center Sinai-Grace Hospital seeks a patient care support professional to provide essential assistance and comfort to mental health patients under the supervision of a registered nurse.

You will conduct one-to-one interactions, facilitate group teaching, monitor patient observations, assist with examinations and procedures, and document care activities in collaboration with the clinical team.