Mental Health Specialist Adult Unit

Schedule:

Days; 7a-7p, every other weekend required Adult Population Key Functions Milieu Management

• Promotes and maintain a safe environment conducive to healing and health promotion.
• Conducts patient environmental and safety rounds in accordance with Menninger policy.
• Reports patient and staff safety concerns to the charge nurse or supervisor.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the need for situation monitoring and awareness to provide a continually safe environment.
• Maintains a clean, orderly environment.
• Establishes therapeutic relationships with patients.
• Provides effective and therapeutic limit setting with patients, seeking team alliance and input as needed.

• Provides direct patient care and in activities of daily living in a goal-directed manner consistent with the assigned program and plan of care.
• Collects focused data to contribute to the assessment of individual strengths and limitations.
• Directly assists patients with showering, oral hygiene, laundry and other activities of daily living as needed.
• Assures orientation of newly admitted patients to the program.
• Reinforces treatment structures for individual patients as indicated.
• Provides input to the patient‘s assigned nurse and other healthcare professionals assigned to the patient regarding patient’s progress towards treatment goals.
• Serves as a patient advocate.

• Initiates and maintains a supportive relationship with patients; facilitate the development of appropriate behaviors, self-expression, and social interaction.
• Establishes therapeutic relationships with patients
• Actively encourages patient participation in assigned activities and scheduled meetings.
• Assists patients to utilize free time in a healthy manner.
• Initiates interactions in a supportive and therapeutic manner.
• Assists with ADL’s as indicated
• Escorts patients to on and off ground appointments in accordance with Menninger policy.
• Supervises patients on and off grounds during leisure time outings in accordance with program structure and Menninger policy.
• Actively participates, leads or co-leads in psycho-educational groups with patients as assigned.
• Regularly performs assigned rounds in accordance with Menninger policy.
• Maintains professional boundaries and confidences with patients and staff.
• Demonstrates good judgment and appropriate behavior for the clinical setting including characteristics such as grooming, personal appearance, speech and hygiene.
• Provides effective and therapeutic limit setting with patients.