Mental Health Specialist

3 weeks ago

Santa Clara, California, United States Kaiser Permanente Full time
Job Summary:

The Mental Health Worker plays a vital role in ensuring the psychiatric and physical nursing care needs of patients are met. As a member of the healthcare team, they promote a healthy, safe, and therapeutic treatment setting that fosters recovery. This includes evaluating, intervening, and providing therapeutic one-to-one interaction to patients using the Wellness and Recovery Philosophy. The Mental Health Worker provides direct care to patients on the unit and participates in observing, recording, and reporting patient behaviors. Under the direction of facility leadership, they ensure the unit is safe and patients are actively participating in the program.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Initiate, observe, document, and communicate patient needs to ensure safety on the unit. This may include Line of Sight precautions or one-on-one supervision as clinically indicated and assigned, requiring critical judgment and timely communication to staff.
  • Facilitate and/or co-facilitate groups with other team members based on training and level of competence.
  • Assist patients in maintaining activities of daily living, including feeding, hygiene, and ambulating.
  • Thorough knowledge of treatment philosophy, goals, policies, rules, and regulations enables independent judgments in providing basic patient care activities, such as orienting patients to the unit, taking vital signs, meal observations, and other critical patient care activities.
  • Participate in treatment planning and support the implementation of the treatment plan on the unit with the patient.
  • Assist in delivering physical care as needed and perform other related duties as assigned.
  • Perform other related duties as necessary.

Grade 375

Basic Qualifications: Experience

  • Minimum 6 months direct patient care experience in an acute psychiatric hospital or psychiatric health facility or two (2) years of experience within the last five (5) years delivering direct patient-focused care on behavioral disabilities.
Education
  • Associates Degree or an equivalent of two years of college coursework in nursing, the social or behavioral sciences.
License, Certification, Registration
  • Basic Life Support
Additional Requirements:
  • Demonstrated skills and ability to care for acutely mentally ill individuals.
  • Knowledge of the challenges involved in managing acute or chronically mentally ill patients and associated behaviors.
  • Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, including computer skills.
  • Knowledge of basic mental health functions, such as assisting with activities of daily living, obtaining vital signs, documentation observations.
  • Ability to relate empathetically to adult psychiatric patients.
  • Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Bilingual skills preferred.
  • Knowledge of treatment philosophy, treatment goals, policies, rules, and regulations related to patient care, as well as interest in working in a recovery-promoting environment using a Wellness/Recovery Model preferred.
  • Knowledge of the principles involved in treatment, interventions, and procedures provided by the service preferred.
  • Knowledge of medical terminology used in psychiatric care of patients preferred.

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