Nursing Assistant I - Adolescent Addictions Inpatient Psychiatry Unit

UNC Health Care; Butner (NC); On-site; USD 37,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Hospitals Youth Behavioral Health in Butner, NC is seeking a Nursing Assistant to join our Inpatient Psychiatry Units. The role involves direct and indirect patient care on a 36-hour, three 12-hour shift schedule, including weekends and holidays.

The position requires providing care to adolescent patients in a trauma-informed setting under supervision of a nurse or physician. Primary duties include assisting with examinations, maintaining patient safety, and supporting families during

Qualifications

• Fluent in verbal and written English; able to develop basic computer skills.
• Prefer six months of nursing assistant experience.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification)

Responsibilities

• Assist physicians and health care providers with routine examinations and procedures.
• Aids patients in reality orientation and behavioral health therapies; provide supportive therapy to patients and families.
• Observe, collect, and document patient information; report changes to RN or physician.
• Provide care and treatments per plan of care, including vital signs, wound care, and activity assistance.
• Provide direct personal care for activities of daily living; assist with bathing, dressing, feeding, and ambulation.
• Maintain work area, restock supplies, transport patients and specimens, and assist in orientation of new staff.

Skills

Fluent English

Basic computer skills

Job description

Description

We are pleased to announce that we are looking for Nursing Assistant to join our new Inpatient Psychiatry Units at UNC Hospitals Youth Behavioral Health Facility (YBH).

Position Offering

• Shift:Day/Night Rotating (Shift hours are 7AM to 7:30PM and 7PM to 7:3AM) including weekends and holidays
• Hours:Full Time; 36 hrs/wk; three 12 hours shifts per week
• Entity:UNC Medical Center
• Location:Butner, NC

UNC Hospitals Youth Behavioral Health is a 54 bed inpatient psychiatric facility located in Butner, NC. The hospital is composed of 4 units designed to care for child and adolescent patients with a variety of common mental health diagnoses, including those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In a milieu-based, trauma-informed, therapeutic setting, patients are treated by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, including Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Therapy Services, Social Workers, Nursing Services, Pharmacy, Pastoral Care and Nutrition Services. Safety is the key component of the care provided as well as introduction of positive coping skills, healthy living and positive leisure activities.

Are you passionate about caring for adolescents and children in a behavioral health environment? If so, we have opportunities available for you in the following area. The teammate will primarily work on the Adolescent Addictions Inpatient Psychiatry Unit, but is expected to float to the other 3 units at the hospital.

Adolescent Addictions Inpatient Psychiatry Unit

• The Adolescent Addictions Inpatient Psychiatry Unit (3YBH) is a 14-bed unit. The unit is comprised of 18 to 21 year old patients in crisis with a mental health disorder or a dual diagnosis of substance use disorder and other mental health diagnoses.

Please see the link below with information about the incentive program for the Assistive Personnel at The UNC Hospitals Youth Behavioral Health:

https://jobs.unchealthcare.org/pages/unc-hospitals-youth-behavioral-health-hospital

This position requires the ability to attend orientation (two (2) days in person) near the UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill.

Summary: Provides routine direct and indirect patient care in a hospital, clinic or home health care setting. All work performed is under the direct supervision of a registered nurse or physician.

Responsibilities:

1. Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, as well as procurement of equipment and supplies during emergency situations.
2. In the psychiatric setting, aids patients in reality orientation, participates in behavior modification plans/therapy, provides informal support therapy to patients/families, provides verbal de-escalation of potentially aggressive patients, aids in the physical management of aggressive/out-of-control patients, facilitates age appropriate play for children, and monitors the therapeutic milieu activities on assigned unit to ensure that emotional and safety needs of patients are met.
3. Observes, collects, and documents patient information obtained while providing care and promptly report significant changes in the patient's condition to a registered nurse or physician.
4. Provides assistance to patients and their families during admission to the clinical area, orientation to the hospital/clinic/home health experience, and discharge
5. Provides care/ treatments to patients as outlined in plan of care including, but not limited to, the measurement of vital signs, height and weight, specimen collection, skin preps/scrubs, catheter care, capillary blood glucose checks, simple wound care, range of motion exercises, postural drainage, and supportive 11 patient and family interactions.
6. Provides direct personal care to patients as outlined in plan of care for routine activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, feeding and assisting with ambulation.
7. Provides indirect care to patients and assigned area to include, but not limited to, cleaning the work area, changing linens, re‑stocking supplies, cleaning/sterilizing instruments, transporting patients/ supplies/ specimens, assisting in the orientation of new employees and students, and some routine clerical functions.
8. Reinforces routine teaching given to patients by the registered nurse or physician and document patient understanding of instructions. Distributes patient education materials at the request of patients and/or health care providers.

Other Information

Education Requirements

• * None required as long as all other position requirements are met.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

• * Listed as Nursing Assistant I with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
• * Basic Life Support (BLS) certification

Professional Experience Requirements

• * Prefer six (6) months of nursing assistant experience

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements

• * Fluent in verbal and written English language and able to develop basic computer skills.

Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: YBH IP Unit D Dogwood

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00

Salary Range:$18.00 - $24.66 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Night Job

Location of Job: Butner:NC:27509

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

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