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Catholic Health Initiatives Mental Health Associate in Roseburg, Oregon
Overview
CHI Mercy Health offers the unique opportunity to grow professionally in a supportive highly rewarding work environment and to satisfy your soul in the surroundings of a breathtakingly beautiful natural setting. More than 100 years after the founding of our organization the core values - Compassion Inclusion Integrity Excellence and Collaboration - that guide our interactions with our patients and each other remain the same. In the welcoming embrace of these nurturing communities you will feel immediately at home.
Roseburg is located on Interstate 5 in Southern Oregon's scenic Douglas County. The community is nestled in a lush forested region known as the 100 Valleys of the Umpqua. In many places you’ll find it hard to maintain a healthy work-life/personal-life balance because the pace of one is indistinguishable from the other. Not here. Life never stops here but it slows to an easy welcome pace. A traffic jam means you missed the yellow and have to wait for the next green. A terrible parking space is the one across from the restaurant instead of in front of it. And the three words you may never hear are “Wow that’s expensive.” Easy is the best way to describe life here. Hard-to-beat works too.
Responsibilities
As a Mental Health Associate you will perform patient care duties for individuals being treated for a behavioral health condition, under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.
Essential Duties:
Conducts and documents observation rounds on all patients.
Observes and documents symptoms of anxiety and agitation, mental status, sleep and other behaviors and communicates to the licensed staff assigned.
Passes and picks up meal trays and provides additional nutritional support as needed including assisting or feeding patients under the direction of the RN. May need to pick up and transport patient meals from the hospital.
May need to transport patients from the hospital.
Responsible for Activities of Daily Living (ADLs).
Provision of unit milieu safety through visitation monitoring, patient clothing search/logging items at admit, securing valuables and contraband.
Obtains and documents vital signs, weights, records intake and observes for changes in pattion condition and mentation.
Provides trauma informed care and supervision to patients needing physical restraints or seclusion room.
Utilizes Crisis Prevention and Intervention techniques to avoid and/or reduce the use of restraints and/or seclusion.
Shift: 6:45am - 7:15pm
Qualifications
License/Certifications:
Valid Oregon Driver's license clear of any chargeable accidents involving negligence within the previous 36 months, more than 2 moving violations in the previous 12 months, more than 4 moving violations in the previous 36 months, or any felony conviction, or D.W.I/D.U.I. conviction
Qualified Mental Health Associate (QMHA) preferred
American Heart Association BLS for Health Care Providers within 30 days of hire
Experience:
Experience with mental health patients in acute care preferred.
Experience in a mental health work setting preferred.
Training in non-violent crisis intervention preferred.
Education:
- High School Diploma or GED
Pay Range
$18.74 - $25.77 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.