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Mental Health Specialist Full Time - Overnight -(3292605)
Description
McLean Hospital will be opening a 68-bed facility in Middleborough Massachusetts during the summer of 2021. This will give candidates an opportunity to advance their careers at a comprehensive psychiatric hospital affiliated with the Harvard Medical School and the Mass General Brigham health system.
McLean is committed to providing easy access to superior quality, cost-effective mental health services in the Boston area, Massachusetts and beyond.
Since 1811, McLean has been a world leader in the treatment of mental illness and chemical dependency, research into the cause of mental illness and the training of generations of mental health care providers.
McLean's multidisciplinary programs treat a broad range of psychiatric illnesses across the full continuum of care.
For the Child Adolescent Inpatient unit :
Under direction of the Registered Nurse, the MHS provides direct patient care and participates in therapeutic milieu. Successful candidate will provide accurate and timely documentation of AFS, progress notes, and observation sheets.
Establishes therapeutic relationships with patients, maintaining professional boundaries. Identifies patient behaviors that contribute to the development of a crisis;
utilizes non-verbal and verbal techniques to de-escalate crisis situation. Participates in planning and implementation of patient groups.
Active milieu assessment while assigned to checks, particularly attuned to safety concerns. Assists patients in their activities of daily living
Qualifications
High School Diploma or GED Required. Bachelors degree preferred. Requires verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work in collaboration with others.
No experience required. One year patient care or related experience preferred, preferably in a psychiatric setting.Employees are expected to remain awake and alert at all times on all shifts.
All employees must possess basic computer skills to use a variety of electronic or online systems for communication, clinical and administrative purposes.
Required to complete electronic medical records training, and demonstrate 80% accuracy on competency test within 30 days of hire.
Last updated : 2024-06-03
Full Time
Hospital
$54k-68k (estimate)
04/25/2024
09/03/2024
massgeneralbrigham.org
MEDWAY, MA
>50,000
1994
$10B - $50B
Hospital
Mass General Brigham is an integrated academic health care system, uniting great minds to solve the hardest problems in medicine for our communities and the world. Mass General Brigham connects a full continuum of care across a system of academic medical centers, community and specialty hospitals, a health insurance plan, physician networks, community health centers, home care, and long-term care services. Mass General Brigham is a nonprofit organization that is committed to patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community. In addition, Mass General Brigham is one of the nations ...leading biomedical research organizations and a principal teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
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