Mental Health Associate- Community Behavioral Health West - PRN

• CPI required within 3 Months - Crisis Prevention Institute
• Use of usual and customary equipment used to perform essential functions of the position. Upon Hire

Assessment and Treatment Planning:

• Assists the interdisciplinary treatment team in patient assessment and the development and implementation of the plan of care ensure individualized, goal-directed treatment.
• Obtains pertinent information from referral sources seeking patient admission; assists in facilitating admissions.
• Completes admission assessments (except for nursing components).
• Ensures compliance with legal components of admissions (voluntary/involuntary admissions, patients' rights, obtaining releases of information, 5-day request for release).
• Maintains sound knowledge base of advanced directives.
• Administers/scores assessment scales per protocol.
• Participates in interdisciplinary clinical staffing's or ensures pertinent information is provided to team.
• Develops, reviews, and revises plan of care on assigned patients.
• Completes required documentation as appropriate including assessment scales.
• Addresses the patient's strengths, impairments and interventions identified in the plan of care to achieve expected patient outcomes.

Therapeutic groups and individual therapies:

• Provides group and individual therapies for all patients as assigned in order to provide comprehensive, quality treatment.
• Facilitates individual therapy sessions, structured therapy groups and psycho educational groups in accordance with the patient's plan of care.
• Utilizes a variety of therapeutic models as appropriate to the clinical situation, but primarily has a brief therapy/cognitive behavioral therapy focus.
• Ensures the milieu maintains a therapeutic environment.
• Incorporates Recovery principles in all therapeutic interventions.
• Documents interventions in a succinct and goal directed manner using DAIR format.
• Recognizes and reports abuse/neglect situations as required by law.
• Provides support, sets limits, and/or facilitates learning from the situation when providing situational 1:1 interventions.
• Adheres to group rules and scheduled groups start and end on time.
• Follows group content outlines in group manual and individualizes groups to needs of current patient population.
• Engages patients to participate of all patients as appropriate in community meetings.
• Interacts with parents/significant others to answer programming questions, patient progress, etc.

Therapeutic environment and safety focus:

• Assists in the creation and maintenance of a therapeutic milieu so that the unit is a safe, caring, nurturing, healing, and educative environment.
• Sets behavioral limits on patients according to unit policies, individual plan of care and behavior modification plans.
• De-escalates patients utilizing CPI techniques.
• Participates in application of seclusion/restraints when appropriate; provides monitoring of patients in such situation; completes appropriate documentation, including restriction of rights forms.
• Provides supportive care to patients and families.
• Conducts safety rounds.
• Assists patients in conflict resolution.
• Role models stress management.
• Ensures patient safety of unit by following policies/procedures and adhering to unit protocols and national patient safety goals.

Performance improvement focus:

• Assists in Performance Improvement activities on unit.
• Actively promotes and achieves customer satisfaction ( patient, family, departments and physicians).
• Generates ideas for improving processes, treatment, and patient care.
• Participates in Root Cause Analyses and assists in development of action plans and implementation of action plans.
• Serves on unit-based committees.
• Precepts new employees.
• Follows through on assignments generated by…