BWH- Mental Health Counselor Per Diem

Job Details

Job Location:

Bournewood Hospital - Brookline, MA 02467

Position Type:
Part Time Salary Range: $22.00 - $30.00 Hourly

Job Shift: Per Diem

Job Summary:

The Mental Health Counselor is a member of the treatment team. This incumbent is the primary patient contact and also has milieu responsibility. The MHC receives guidance through the treatment plan and through unit management.

• Assists patients to clarify their course of treatment through providing a safe environment and performing assignments as needed.
• Consistently observes patients for changes in mental status and changes in safety on unit checks
• Participates in de-escalation using early intervention skills to assist, and restraints if needed (strictly for imminent risk only) of patients according to procedures and standards.
• Participates in accompanying the patient through admissions, discharge, orientation and transfer as directed.
• Takes and records patients vital signs as directed.
• Assists with or facilitates patient's self management of Activities of Daily Living
• Coordinates activities of assigned patients
• Participates in discussion of patients, contributing to understanding/interventions for effective outcomes
• Implements Treatment Plan through carrying out counselor activities in treatment plan
• Documents daily patients' participation in participation and observed response to interventions
• Adheres to policies surrounding boundaries, patient confidentiality, and stays up to date on required trainings.

• Must be able to walk the grounds of the facility and potentially sprint short distances.
• Must be able to assist with patient care surrounding lifting, turning and restraining patients if needed.
• Must be able to lift 50-60 pounds.