Mental Health Associate

Overview

CHI Mercy Health is scheduled to open a newly remodeled inpatient behavioral health facility in the fall of 2023!

This will be a 12-bed treatment facility that will provide stabilization services for adults experiecing a mental health crisis. The environment and program interventions support a recovery-oriented approach to care, providing an opportunity for assessment/diagnosis, social services, family engagement and education for managing the acute symptoms of a mental health condition. We are now seeking team members who share a passion and a mission for helping people in their journey towards mental and emotional wellness.

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 Oregons 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.

While you're busy impacting the healthcare industry, we'll take care of you with benefits that may include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, adoption assistance, annual bonus eligibility, and more!

Responsibilities

Shift: Casual Part-Time, Days

Schedule: N/A

Job Summary:

Performs 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.

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 Associate BLS for Healthcare 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.