Job Description
- FULL TIME AVAILABILITIES IN BOTH THE NURSING DEPARTMENT (MILITARY & CIVILIAN) AND ADMISSIONS/INTAKE DEPARTMENTS; DAY AND NIGHT SHIFTS!!!
- Participate in treatment planning by helping identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths; suggesting modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior.
- Provides input during shift report and discharge planning.
- Participate in implementing patients' treatment plans by monitoring patients' progress, communicating information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team.
- Maintains communication with patient, family members, and referral sources in patients' interest.
- Co-facilitates didactic, educational, and community groups within the context of the adolescent treatment program encouraging and facilitating patients' participation in therapeutic activities.
- Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment and during transport.
- Participate in maintaining the therapeutic milieu on the unit, enforces the level system or other methods of behavior management.
- Maintain patient, program, department, and related documentation.
- Orient new patients to unit, program and milieu.
- Carry out general nursing assistance as assigned and supervised by nurse in charge.
- Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients.
- Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and developmental level.
- Carry out clerical/administrative assignment to support patient care and department and hospital operations.
- Participates in activities which enhance professional growth and development.
- Upholds the Organization's ethics and customer service standards.
Requirements
- High school, GED, or equivalent preferred.
- Experience in healthcare environment preferred.
- CNA license a plus.
- Must obtain and maintain approved CPR certification as well as successful completion of Management of Assaultive Behavior training including restraint and seclusion policies prior to assuming patient care responsibility.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- 401K Retirement Plan
- Healthcare Spending Account
- Dependent Care Spending Account
- PTO Plan with Holiday Premium Pay
- Life Insurance (Supplemental Life, Term, and Universal plans are also available.)
- Short and Long-Term Disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)
Job Tags
Full time, Temporary work, Shift work, Night shift, Day shift,