Senior Mental Health Coordinator
| Company | Allina Health |
|---|---|
| Location | Minnesota, USA, Wisconsin, USA |
| Salary | $22.71 – $31.13 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in social/psychological or related field
- BLS Tier 1 – Basic Life Support – Multisource required Certified by American Heart Association or Allina BLS by completion of orientation
- Code Green required within 60 days
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
- 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 of experience in mental health/substance abuse patient care