3rd Shift LEAD TECH - MH/BH (NO DEGREE)
Universal Health Services, Inc., Atlanta, GA, United States
Responsibilities
The Lead Mental Health Aide provides direct care to adolescents and adult patients with psychiatric disorders to ensure the safety and well-being of the patients. Lead MHAs have the primary responsibility for ensuring the patient's safety on the unit. Lead MHAs are responsible for understanding and using the least restrictive interventions per facility policy and avoiding seclusion and restraint whenever possible.
Act as Team Leader for other Mental Health Aide Tech, providing supervision support to MHA's as directed by charge nurse and milieu manager.
- Assist in providing nursing unit orientation to new hire MHAs, including duties and responsibilities.
- Assist in the admission process, including obtaining vital signs, safety search of patient and belongings, obtaining urine specimens and orienting new patients to the unit and their program.
- Monitor vitals signs and assist patients with activities of daily living. Monitor unit MHAs compliance with assigned vital signs and ADLs
- Ensure precaution protocols are followed, and encourage patients to actively participate in all program activities.
- Assign group coverage as directed by Charge Nurse, monitor that groups are appropriately planned and presented for designated population.
- Participate in hospital emergency codes necessary to the unit's and the hospital's safe operation.
- Maintain patient, program, department and related documentation ensuring that forms are properly and promptly completed and routed. When assigned by Charge Nurse, assist the milieu manager to oversee that MHAs on unit are completing assigned paperwork.
- Performs safety rounds on assigned unit and completes required documentation.
About Universal Health Services
One of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $15.8 billion in 2024. UHS was again recognized as one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune; listed in Forbes ranking of America's Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 99,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. www.uhs.com
Qualifications
High school diploma required
1 to 3 years of experience
EEO Statement
All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Avoid and Report Recruitment Scams
We are aware of a scam whereby imposters are posing as Recruiters from UHS, and our subsidiary hospitals and facilities. Beware of anyone requesting financial or personal information.
At UHS and all our subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates by matching skill set and experience with the best possible career path at UHS and our subsidiaries. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (e.g., Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. Our recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc.
If you suspect a fraudulent job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, we encourage you to report such concerns to appropriate law enforcement. We encourage you to refer to legitimate UHS and UHS subsidiary career websites to verify job opportunities and not rely on unsolicited calls from recruiters.
The Lead Mental Health Aide provides direct care to adolescents and adult patients with psychiatric disorders to ensure the safety and well-being of the patients. Lead MHAs have the primary responsibility for ensuring the patient's safety on the unit. Lead MHAs are responsible for understanding and using the least restrictive interventions per facility policy and avoiding seclusion and restraint whenever possible.
Act as Team Leader for other Mental Health Aide Tech, providing supervision support to MHA's as directed by charge nurse and milieu manager.
- Assist in providing nursing unit orientation to new hire MHAs, including duties and responsibilities.
- Assist in the admission process, including obtaining vital signs, safety search of patient and belongings, obtaining urine specimens and orienting new patients to the unit and their program.
- Monitor vitals signs and assist patients with activities of daily living. Monitor unit MHAs compliance with assigned vital signs and ADLs
- Ensure precaution protocols are followed, and encourage patients to actively participate in all program activities.
- Assign group coverage as directed by Charge Nurse, monitor that groups are appropriately planned and presented for designated population.
- Participate in hospital emergency codes necessary to the unit's and the hospital's safe operation.
- Maintain patient, program, department and related documentation ensuring that forms are properly and promptly completed and routed. When assigned by Charge Nurse, assist the milieu manager to oversee that MHAs on unit are completing assigned paperwork.
- Performs safety rounds on assigned unit and completes required documentation.
About Universal Health Services
One of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune 500 corporation, annual revenues were $15.8 billion in 2024. UHS was again recognized as one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune; listed in Forbes ranking of America's Largest Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has approximately 99,000 employees and continues to grow through its subsidiaries. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. www.uhs.com
Qualifications
High school diploma required
1 to 3 years of experience
EEO Statement
All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Avoid and Report Recruitment Scams
We are aware of a scam whereby imposters are posing as Recruiters from UHS, and our subsidiary hospitals and facilities. Beware of anyone requesting financial or personal information.
At UHS and all our subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates by matching skill set and experience with the best possible career path at UHS and our subsidiaries. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (e.g., Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. Our recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc.
If you suspect a fraudulent job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, we encourage you to report such concerns to appropriate law enforcement. We encourage you to refer to legitimate UHS and UHS subsidiary career websites to verify job opportunities and not rely on unsolicited calls from recruiters.