Mental Health Associate - Adolescent Behavioral Health
Carle Health, West Peoria, IL, United States
Overview
Provides care to individuals with behavioral, emotional, or mental health problems.
Qualifications
Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Training within 3 months.
Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days - American Heart Association (AHA).
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Social Work, Psychology, or Related Field.
Other Requirements
Required English Skills – Advanced reading, writing, and oral skills. Communication skills. Ability to respond appropriately to customer/co-worker interaction, maintain confidentiality, deliver facts or decline to reveal information, project a professional, friendly demeanor. Computer skills: Basic knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, web browsers, comfortable within Windows OS, and learning new applications.
Responsibilities
Ensures patients receive comprehensive services: Assists the interdisciplinary treatment team in patient assessments and the development of goal‑directed treatment.
Obtains pertinent information from referral sources seeking patient admission; assists in facilitating admissions
Completes admission assessments (except for nursing components)
Ensures compliance with legal components of admissions (voluntary/involuntary admissions, patients’ rights, obtaining releases of information, 5‑day request for release)
Maintains sound knowledge base of advanced directives
Administers/scores assessment scales per protocol
Participates in interdisciplinary clinical staffing or ensures pertinent information is provided to team
Develops, reviews, and revises plan of care on assigned patients
Completes required documentation as appropriate including assessment scales
Addresses the patient’s strengths, impairments and interventions identified in the plan of care to achieve expected patient outcomes.
Therapeutic Environment and Safety Focus
Assists in the creation and maintenance of a therapeutic milieu so that the unit is a safe, caring, nurturing, healing, and educative environment.
Sets behavioral limits on patients according to unit policies, individual plan of care and behavior modification plans
De‑escalates patients utilizing CPI techniques
Participates in application of seclusion/restraints when appropriate; provides monitoring of patients in such situation; completes appropriate documentation, including restriction of rights forms
Provides supportive care to patients and families.
Conducts safety rounds
Assists patients in conflict resolution
Role models stress management
Ensures patient safety of unit by following policies/procedures and adhering to unit protocols and national patient safety goals
Therapeutic Groups and Individual Therapies
Provides group and individual therapies for all patients as assigned in order to provide comprehensive, quality treatment.
Facilitates educational sessions, structured groups and psychoeducational groups in accordance with the patient’s plan of care
Utilizes a variety of therapeutic models as appropriate to the clinical situation, but primarily has a brief therapy/cognitive behavioral therapy focus
Ensures the milieu maintains a therapeutic environment
Incorporates Recovery principles in all therapeutic interventions
Documents interventions in a succinct and goal directed manner using DAR format
Recognizes and reports abuse
eglect situations as required by law
Provides support, sets limits, and/or facilitates learning from the situation when providing situational 1:1 intervention
Adheres to group rules and scheduled groups start and end on time.
Follows group content outlines in group manual and individualizes groups to needs of current patient population
Engages patients to participate of all patients as appropriate in community meetings
Interacts with parents/significant others to answer programming questions, patient progress, etc.
Performance Improvement Focus
Assists in Performance Improvement activities on unit.
Actively promotes and achieves customer satisfaction (patient, family, departments and physicians)
Generates ideas for improving processes, treatment, and patient care
Participates in Root Cause Analyses and assists in development of action plans and implementation of action plans
Serves on unit-based and hospital-based committees
Precepts new employees
Follows through on assignments generated by Program Manager or unit committees
Volunteers for assignments which are designed to affect needed changes.
Compensation and Benefits
The compensation range for this position is $22.54 per hour – $37.64 per hour. This represents a good faith minimum and maximum range for the role at the time of posting by Carle Health. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, qualifications, location, training, licenses, shifts worked and compensation model. Carle Health offers a comprehensive benefits package for team members and providers. To learn more visit careers.carlehealth.org/benefits.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Carle Health participates in E‑Verify and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee’s Form I‑9 to confirm work authorization.
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Provides care to individuals with behavioral, emotional, or mental health problems.
Qualifications
Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) Training within 3 months.
Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days - American Heart Association (AHA).
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Social Work, Psychology, or Related Field.
Other Requirements
Required English Skills – Advanced reading, writing, and oral skills. Communication skills. Ability to respond appropriately to customer/co-worker interaction, maintain confidentiality, deliver facts or decline to reveal information, project a professional, friendly demeanor. Computer skills: Basic knowledge of word processing, spreadsheets, e-mail, web browsers, comfortable within Windows OS, and learning new applications.
Responsibilities
Ensures patients receive comprehensive services: Assists the interdisciplinary treatment team in patient assessments and the development of goal‑directed treatment.
Obtains pertinent information from referral sources seeking patient admission; assists in facilitating admissions
Completes admission assessments (except for nursing components)
Ensures compliance with legal components of admissions (voluntary/involuntary admissions, patients’ rights, obtaining releases of information, 5‑day request for release)
Maintains sound knowledge base of advanced directives
Administers/scores assessment scales per protocol
Participates in interdisciplinary clinical staffing or ensures pertinent information is provided to team
Develops, reviews, and revises plan of care on assigned patients
Completes required documentation as appropriate including assessment scales
Addresses the patient’s strengths, impairments and interventions identified in the plan of care to achieve expected patient outcomes.
Therapeutic Environment and Safety Focus
Assists in the creation and maintenance of a therapeutic milieu so that the unit is a safe, caring, nurturing, healing, and educative environment.
Sets behavioral limits on patients according to unit policies, individual plan of care and behavior modification plans
De‑escalates patients utilizing CPI techniques
Participates in application of seclusion/restraints when appropriate; provides monitoring of patients in such situation; completes appropriate documentation, including restriction of rights forms
Provides supportive care to patients and families.
Conducts safety rounds
Assists patients in conflict resolution
Role models stress management
Ensures patient safety of unit by following policies/procedures and adhering to unit protocols and national patient safety goals
Therapeutic Groups and Individual Therapies
Provides group and individual therapies for all patients as assigned in order to provide comprehensive, quality treatment.
Facilitates educational sessions, structured groups and psychoeducational groups in accordance with the patient’s plan of care
Utilizes a variety of therapeutic models as appropriate to the clinical situation, but primarily has a brief therapy/cognitive behavioral therapy focus
Ensures the milieu maintains a therapeutic environment
Incorporates Recovery principles in all therapeutic interventions
Documents interventions in a succinct and goal directed manner using DAR format
Recognizes and reports abuse
eglect situations as required by law
Provides support, sets limits, and/or facilitates learning from the situation when providing situational 1:1 intervention
Adheres to group rules and scheduled groups start and end on time.
Follows group content outlines in group manual and individualizes groups to needs of current patient population
Engages patients to participate of all patients as appropriate in community meetings
Interacts with parents/significant others to answer programming questions, patient progress, etc.
Performance Improvement Focus
Assists in Performance Improvement activities on unit.
Actively promotes and achieves customer satisfaction (patient, family, departments and physicians)
Generates ideas for improving processes, treatment, and patient care
Participates in Root Cause Analyses and assists in development of action plans and implementation of action plans
Serves on unit-based and hospital-based committees
Precepts new employees
Follows through on assignments generated by Program Manager or unit committees
Volunteers for assignments which are designed to affect needed changes.
Compensation and Benefits
The compensation range for this position is $22.54 per hour – $37.64 per hour. This represents a good faith minimum and maximum range for the role at the time of posting by Carle Health. The actual compensation offered to a candidate will be dependent on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, qualifications, location, training, licenses, shifts worked and compensation model. Carle Health offers a comprehensive benefits package for team members and providers. To learn more visit careers.carlehealth.org/benefits.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Carle Health participates in E‑Verify and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee’s Form I‑9 to confirm work authorization.
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