Provides direct patient care to maintain each adult and adolescent patient’s physical and psychological safety. Examines data to grasp issues, draw conclusions and solve problems.

• Checks for right patient, right treatment, and right time.
• Documents accurately and communicates to appropriate authority in a timely manner if patient refuses treatment, error is made, or an unpredicted event occurs.
• Obtains vital signs and weights as ordered on all patients.
• Alerts the nurse on duty when vital signs are out of parameters
• Reviews and monitors therapy and treatment plans for effectiveness, accuracy, currency, and relevancy. Informs nurse treatment team of regularities.

• Provides ongoing assessment of patient’s status responds appropriately to patient needs.
• Attend group with clients and document that you have done so
• Take walks with clients as assigned.
• Observe when patients are using exercise video instead of walk
• Transport patient as needed and assigned to appointments outside of McCallum Place.

• Provides introduction to other patients and staff.
• Reviews the patient handbook to ensure patient understanding.
• Completes the belongings inventory.

• Provides support, redirection, and monitoring of inappropriate conversation or rituals at meals
• Checks meals and snacks to assure accuracy
• Assist with placing food items on the table once the kitchen staff has brought out the food.

• Establishes a therapeutic relationship with patients, including rapport, therapeutic boundaries, and a providing assistance with treatment goals.
• Maintains appropriate boundaries with patients refraining from inappropriate self-disclosure, topics of conversation, or physical contact
• Provides patient support and guidance, assist in managing emergency situation in a prompt and professional manner
• Upholds and enforces patient’s privileges in accordance with their treatment plan, level of care and program guidelines.
• Assists patients in setting and meeting treatment goals and identifying appropriate coping skills

• Accurately documents in shift progress notes and nutritional flow sheets.
• Communicates patient progress and ongoing needs in reports including all complaints at the end of each shift as outlined in the reporting procedure.
• Notifies patient’s treatment team, including therapist, physician, and Program Director as appropriate regarding specific patient concerns utilizing the proper communication procedures.

• Administers prescribed medications as directed by physician orders and nurse direction.
• Skilled in safely administering medication.
• Medications documentation is completed in accordance with policy.

• Actively participates in team meetings.
• Assists staff in understanding patients’ special issues, as well as skills for providing care relevant to these issues.
• Communicates medical safety concerns directly, as well as writing in patients’ Kardexes.
• In the absence of nurse contact physicians when clients have medical issues (vital signs, signs/symptoms, injuries, labs out of normal parameters. Obtain and contacts nursing staff to perform orders as directed by physician.

o Respects and maintains the confidentiality of all patient information, which includes not speaking about patient information in public settings or non-private areas at McCallum Place (i.e. community space, office with a door open, etc.).

o Demonstrates ability to work in a cooperative manner as a team member.

o Demonstrates ability to problem solve issues with coworkers and refrain from involvement in negative talk regarding coworkers.

o Communicates concerns regarding policies, working conditions, patients, or coworkers through appropriate channels.

• Demonstrates dependability to include attendance and punctuality.
• Takes initiative and ownership of issues.
• Represents willingness/enthusiasm to create, embrace and facilitate change.
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Familiar with duties and performs them independently, accurately, efficiently, promptly recognizing their importance and relationship to patient care.
• Demonstrate the ability to organize and complete assignments
• Demonstrates dependability to include attendance and punctuality.
• Takes initiative and ownership of issues.
• Represents willingness/enthusiasm to create, embrace and facilitate change.
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Familiar with duties and performs them independently, accurately, efficiently, promptly recognizing their importance and relationship to patient care.
• Mandatory annual training in Net Learning required and spot compliance training, as needed.

• Required to sit, stand, bend, stoop, walk, climb stairs and drive possibly for extended periods.

• Must be able to lift 40 pounds.

• Work is performed in an administrative office setting, and residential settings

• Must possess the ability to provide physical restraint to the residents.

• Must have visual, hearing and learning capabilities necessary to perform the essential functions described above.