Mental Health Worker II: Direct Care & Recovery

Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Tewksbury Junction (MA); Vor Ort; USD 52.000 - 67.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Department of Mental Health seeks a Mental Health Worker II for full-time day shift at Tewksbury Hospital. Provide direct care, assist with daily living activities, and support treatment plans to ensure patient dignity, safety and rights are upheld.

You will collaborate with staff, document progress, and participate in activities to promote recovery and community integration. Overtime may be required; this is a 40-hour week with varied days off depending on rotation.

Qualifikationen

• Ability to follow written and oral instructions.
• Capacity to perform basic mathematics.
• Proven ability to gather information through observing and questioning individuals.
• Talent for communicating effectively in oral expression, writing clearly and concisely, and developing ideas in logical sequence.
• Skilled in interacting with people who are under emotional stress with the ability to maintain a calm manner in stressful or emergency situations.

Aufgaben

• Provide direct care services in the activities of daily living by instructing and/or assisting patients in feeding, bathing, toileting, dressing, clothing maintenance, oral and physical hygiene, self-preservation, etc. to ensure daily needs, dignity and human rights of the patients are met.
• Assist in the implementation of the individual treatment plan by discussing and reporting observations regarding patient behavior, needs, desires or problems to ensure consistency of care.
• Work effectively with other staff to better serve patient needs, promoting a non-threatening, and therapeutic milieu.
• Perform tasks of other staff in their absence to ensure continuity of services.
• Practice principles of COLLABORATION, ASSESSMENT, RECOVERY and ENVIRONMENT (CARE), to provide a safe environment.
• Perform patient related housekeeping duties as needed, observing and reporting need for maintenance repairs to ensure a clean safe environment for patients.
• Document in MIS including but not limited to progress notes, incident reports, restraint/seclusion forms, to provide communication regarding patient progress.
• Accompany patients to appointments, programs and treatment areas, assists professional or medical staff in providing services to patients to insure health needs of the patient are being met.
• Provide leisure activities for patients during unstructured time to promote and enhance patient social skills.
• Instruct patients in fire safety and preservation skills to ensure their safety in an emergency.
• Attend meetings and trainings to improve knowledge and skills to be aware of and stay informed of hospital and departmental policies and procedures as well as HCFA and The Joint Commission regulations to provide a safe therapeutic environment.
• Actively involved in the Improved Operational Performance process at both unit and hospital wide level to promote improved patient care.
• May be required to provide “specialized” services to patients in the hospital or at other locations to provide support and ensure safety.
• Works with other staff in the planning and implementation of therapeutic and educational programs for the patients and their families to provide an opportunity for learning and meeting individual patient needs.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Ausbildung

Associate’s degree or higher in psychology, human services or a closely related field

Jobbeschreibung

Department of Mental Health seeks a Mental Health Worker II for full-time day shift at Tewksbury Hospital. Provide direct care, assist with daily living activities, and support treatment plans to ensure patient dignity, safety and rights are upheld.

You will collaborate with staff, document progress, and participate in activities to promote recovery and community integration. Overtime may be required; this is a 40-hour week with varied days off depending on rotation.