Mental Health Associate - Day Shift FT

Description

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Location: Princeton, NJ

Hours: FT( 40 hours/week/) - Mon - Fri, every other weekend/ 7 am - 3:30 pm.

• Able to attend a mandatory training from Mon - Thu ( between 8 am -5:30 pm hours) for the first two 2 weeks.
  
  

Benefits You'll Receive at Princeton/Penn Medicine:

• Generous Paid Time Off benefits, including eight paid holidays that will give you the work-life balance today’s world needs
• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription coverage plan options that best fit your personal & family needs
• Tuition Assistance for both Part-Time (20 hours) and Full-time (40 hours) employees. ( 0.5 FTE and over)
• Flexible Health Savings Accounts (FSA/HAS) to save pre-tax dollars to use towards your personal & family medical costs
• 403b Retirement Savings, Penn Home Ownership Services, Commuter Benefits, Pet Insurance and Pension
• Access to company paid life insurance, temporary disability. Employee discounts and perks, including but not limited to free secure employee-only parking, optional life insurance and other. Please click on this LINK for additional information regarding our amazing benefits package.
  
  

Keys to Success:

• Able to work with groups
• Able to strive in a fast-paced environment
• Detail oriented
• Customer focused
• Great communication skills
• Empathetic
  
  

Summary:

• Provides milieu management and clinical support as a member of an interdisciplinary treatment team in general hospital setting, with inpatients and partial hospital patients with a primary diagnosis of an eating disorder from childhood and adolescence and through adulthood.
  
  

Responsibilities:

• Provides milieu management
• Maintains a safe and therapeutic milieu by enforcing program rules, regulations and limits. Assists in monitoring and maintaining the environmental standards for the physical environment, by ensuring the safety and organization of public patient spaces on the unit (including but not limited to group rooms/lounges, partial hospitalization patient lockers and partial hospitalization patient socialization areas).
• Performs behavioral observations, completes unit rounds, checks and monitors patients as assigned.
• Assists staff in ensuring that patients get to scheduled program activities, including groups and meals, in a timely manner.
• Conducts room searches as ordered by physician and in accordance with established protocols.
• Assists in emergencies and codes according to established protocols.
• Offers support and guidance to patients as needed.
• Identifies significant changes in patients' clinical status and communicates to appropriate member(s) of the treatment team.
• Obtains vital signs every shift
• Assists in processing new admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Provides orientation to unit for new patients, including completing patient searches at admission.
  
  

Credentials:

• Driver's License (Required)
• Valid driver’s license in employee's state of residence with a record in good standing with the State of NJ Department of Motor Vehicles.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for health care providers certification from American Heart Association (AHA) required
  
  

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Bachelor of Arts or Science (Required)
• A minimum of a bachelors degree, in a Social Science preferred
  
  

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Live Your Life's Work

We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.