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Minnesota Visiting Nurse Agency Mental Health Worker Inpatient Psychiatry -$2,500 hiring incentive in Minneapolis, Minnesota
SUMMARY: We are currently seeking aMental Health Workerto join our Inpatient Psych team. This part-time role will work a .8, 64 hours per pay period, evenings, and every other weekend shift.
Purpose of this position:Under direct supervision of nursing staff, performs work of routine difficulty in assisting in the treatment of clients in an acute care inpatient setting
A* hiring incentive*is available for eligible external candidates (current employees, contract/temporary workers, and former employees returning to HHS within one year are ineligible).
Current List of non-MN States where Hennepin Healthcare is an Eligible Employer: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provides patient care to inpatients or patients in the psychiatric emergency department of HCMC under supervision of nursing staff; therapeutic 1:1, evaluates, intervenes, and reports to and works with nursing staff to follow individualized patient care plans
- Participates in planning and implementing treatment team recommendations concerning individual and group patient programming
- Follows the problem-oriented method for patient charting or reporting on behaviors observed
- Promotes and maintains a healthy and safe treatment setting
- Provides patient care with ADL’s
- Maintains an organized and clean milieu
- Provides milieu support to patients and nursing staff. May provide patient care activities and clerical activities
- May perform various technical procedures after training, competency validation, and upon delegation from a Registered Nurse, such as phlebotomies
- Performs related work as required, but only after appropriate training
QUALIFICATIONS: /Minimum Qualifications:/
- One year experience providing direct patient care services in a psychiatric or mental health setting
-OR-
- Relevant college coursework in the social or behavioral sciences and/or approved demonstrated skills and ability to care for acutely mentally ill individuals
-OR-
- An approved equivalent combination of training, experience, and education that may include experience such as working as an HCA/NA; nursing student; or group home experience
/Preferred Qualifications:/
- One year of related experience in a similar healthcare environment (behavioral health, nursing)
- Actively enrolled in or a graduate of a two-year or four-year behavioral health or registered nursing program
- Training in (or willingness to learn) motivational interviewing techniques
/Knowledge/ Skills/ Abilities:/
- Ability to de-escalate sometimes stressful patient situations
- Knowledge of motivational interviewing skills and techniques
- Basic computer skills
- Ability to support and provide patient and family centered care in a team environment
- Ability to meet the diverse needs of the patient population(s) being served
Title: *Mental Health Worker Inpatient Psychiatry -$2,500 hiring incentive *
Location: MN-Minneapolis-Downtown Campus
Requisition ID: 232849