AIDE - MH/BH (NO DEGREE)- 2nd and 3rd shifts

Mental Health Aide

The Mental Health Aide provides direct care to adolescents and adult patients with psychiatric disorders to ensure the safety and well-being of the patients. MHAs have the primary responsibility for ensuring the patient's safety on the unit. MHAs are responsible for understanding and using the least restrictive interventions per facility policy and avoiding seclusion and restraint whenever possible.

Qualifications:

• Assists and monitors patients with daily living activities.
• Assists and monitors patients at all times.
• Provides adequate staff supervision and escorts patients to and from the unit in a safe, orderly manner.
• Interacts therapeutically with the patients in one to one-situation, community and group meetings.
• Consistently demonstrates an alert, sensitive and supportive attitude with patients, families, employees and management.
• Inventories and secures patient's belongings including valuables and hazards with appropriate documentation on admission.
• Recognizes subtle deviation on patient's affect, behavior and conversation, as well as changes in the patient's physical condition and reports these to the Unit Nurse.
• Provides written rules and explains regulations to patients upon admission. Knows and can explain contents of patient handbook.
• Performs other duties as assigned/required by this position.

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