Mental Health Specialist Per Diem Oak Street North

Brigham and Women’s Hospital • Middleborough, MA, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 3w ago

McLean Hospital will be opening a 68-bed facility in Middleborough, Massachusetts during the summer of 2021. This will give candidates an opportunity to advance their careers at a comprehensive psychiatric hospital affiliated with Harvard Medical School and the Mass General Brigham health system.

McLean is committed to providing easy access to superior quality, cost-effective mental health services in the Boston area, Massachusetts and beyond. Since 1811, McLean has been a world leader in the treatment of mental illness and chemical dependency, research into the cause of mental illness, and the training of generations of mental health care providers. McLean's multidisciplinary programs treat a broad range of psychiatric illnesses across the full continuum of care.

Responsibilities

Under the direction of the Registered Nurse, the Mental Health Worker (MHS) provides direct patient care and participates in therapeutic milieu. Responsibilities include:

Providing accurate and timely documentation of AFS, progress notes, and observation sheets.
Establishing therapeutic relationships with patients while maintaining professional boundaries.
Identifying patient behaviors that contribute to the development of a crisis and utilizing non-verbal and verbal techniques to de-escalate crisis situations.
Participating in the planning and implementation of patient groups.
Conducting active milieu assessments while assigned to checks, particularly attuned to safety concerns.
Assisting patients in their activities of daily living.

Qualifications

High School Diploma or GED required; Bachelor's degree preferred. Verbal and written communication skills are required, along with the ability to work in collaboration with others. No experience is required, but one year of patient care or related experience is preferred, preferably in a psychiatric setting.

Employees are expected to remain awake and alert at all times on all shifts. All employees must possess basic computer skills to use a variety of electronic or online systems for communication, clinical, and administrative purposes. Required to complete electronic medical records training and demonstrate 80% accuracy on a competency test within 30 days of hire.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of McLean Hospital to affirmatively provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants for employment and existing employees without regard to their race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, ancestry, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or a condition related to pregnancy including, but not limited to, lactation or the need to express breast milk for a nursing child, or any other basis that would be in violation of any applicable law or regulation.