Mental Health Worker (w/ CNA preferred) PT Nights Float

Care New England Health System; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 30,000 - 39,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

CNA pay differential

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Mental Health Worker with a preference for a CNA. This part-time night role involves advocating for patients, assisting nurses with daily living activities, and ensuring a safe environment. Candidates should hold a Bachelor's degree in social sciences or equivalent experience, and have excellent written skills. This position offers a 2% pay differential for applicants who maintain an active CNA license and requires work on every other weekend.

Qualifications

• Preferred Bachelor's degree in social sciences or equivalent behavioral health experience.
• Experience helping mentally ill or developmentally delayed clients is advantageous.
• Candidate must have excellent written skills.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for patients through modeling standards of performance.
• Assist registered nurses in direct patient care and daily living activities.
• Ensure a safe and therapeutic environment on the unit.

Skills

Experience with mentally ill clients

Excellent written skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in social sciences or comparable experience

Job description

Mental Health Worker w/ CNA preferred PT Nights Float

Department: BH-FLOAT POOL

Operating Unit: Butler Hospital

Location: Providence, RI

Job ID: 22176

Job Status: Part Time

Shift: Nights

Schedule: Other

Job Summary: Provides role as patient advocate through their own role modeling of standards of performance and by communicating and meeting patients’ needs for service. Assists registered nurses in direct care of patients, specifically patients’ activities of daily living. Ensures a safe and therapeutic environment on the unit through observation monitoring, direct interaction with patients’, and providing/assisting in groups.

Specifications: Bachelor’s degree in any of the social sciences preferred and/or comparable behavioral health experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Experience in working with mentally ill and/or developmentally delayed clients.

Candidate must have excellent written skills.

C.N.A. Preferred: 2% Pay Differential Available to Applicants who maintain an Active CNA License.

Schedule: 20/40 Part Time Nights - Every Other Weekend

Shift 11p-7:30a (5 shifts over a 2 week schedule)

Care New England Health System (CNE) and its member institutions, Butler Hospital, Women & Infants Hospital, Kent Hospital, VNA of Care New England, Integra, The Providence Center, and Care New England Medical Group, and our Wellness Center, are trusted organizations fueling the latest advances in medical research, attracting top specialty-trained doctors, and honing renowned services and innovative programs to engage in the important discussions people need to have about their health.

EEOC Statement: Care New England is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Ethics Statement: Employee conducts himself/herself consistent with the ethical standards of the organization including, but not limited to hospital policy, mission, vision, and values.

Americans with Disability Act Statement: External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled must be able to perform the essential job-specific functions either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation, to be determined by the organization on a case-by-case basis.