Mental Health Coordinator Sr

Mental Health Coordinator Sr

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in social/psychological or related field

Responsibilities

• Provide direct physical care, emotional support and educational resources to Mental Health patients under the supervision of the RN.
• Participate in all aspects of patient’s care to individual patients, providing unity structure, promoting safety and creating/monitoring a therapeutic milieu.
• Provide therapeutic interventions including responding to crisis situation and programing.
• Assist with activities of daily living.
• Recognize escalating behaviors and attempt to redirect/refocus.
• Participate in development of treatment plans and interventions.
• Assist with collecting assessment data through interviews, 1:1 and group interactions/observation.
• Observe physical, psychological and safety status of patient and unit on an ongoing basis.
• Assist patient in establishing therapeutic goals.
• Facilitate therapeutic interventions through structured activities, education or counseling per unit milieu/schedule.
• Develop, implement and evaluate plan of care based on individual/family assessment.
• Monitor vital signs and reports observations.
• Assist with admissions and discharges.
• Perform collection of specimens from patients as delegated.
• May perform blood glucose monitoring.
• Report abnormal findings to RN.
• May facilitate/co-facilitate groups and/or activities as delegated.
• Verbalize understanding of role for patients’ with legal holds/commitments and issuing patient rights.
• Actively participates in staff meetings and task groups.
• Maintain professional appearance.
• Demonstrate ability to verbally deescalate a patient and set appropriate limits.
• Verbalize knowledge of mental health diagnosis including mood disorders, personalist disorders, thought disorders, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse.
• Demonstrate appropriate application of limb restraints.
• Demonstrate ability to verbally de-escalate a patient and set appropriate limits with a team.

Preferred Qualifications

• 2 to 5 years experience in mental health/substance abuse patient care