Seasonal Mental Health Worker I - Evening & Night Shift - Pocasset Mental Health Center

This is a seasonal position for an anticipated duration of 90 days.

The Department of Mental Health's Pocasset Community Mental Health Center is seeking dynamic individuals, who under supervision will provide physical and emotional care to patients in inpatient settings. While assisting in the rehabilitative aspects of patient care so that patients are encouraged to achieve their highest level of independent functioning, the Mental Health Worker (MHW I) provides support, encouragement, and limit setting to patients to help them meet individualized behavioral treatment plans. The MHW is responsible for performing patient related housekeeping duties, maintaining patient records using approved documentation formats, accompanying patients to appointments, engaging patients in leisure activities, and performing related duties. The Mental Health Worker establishes a rapport with patients and coworkers and works with other staff to provide a safe environment for all patients by monitoring patient activity and unit. 

Please Note: This is a seasonal position for an anticipated duration of 90 days. This position is full-time, 40 hours per week. The work schedule will vary. Evening and Night shifts available. Seasonal positions do not offer employee benefits with the exception of sick time accruals.

Employees in this position will be required to perform mandatory overtime.
 

Duties and Responsibilities (these are a general summary and not all inclusive):

• Provides programmatic direct care services daily while instructing and assisting clients in learning the skills of daily living to promote independent Assisted Daily Living (ADL) functioning.
• Assist in the implementation of habilitative /rehabilitative behavioral, intensive structured interventions and recreational programs by discussing observations regarding patient behavior, needs, desires, or problems, providing information and making recommendations concerning the patient’s mental health and substance abuse/dependence diagnosis and his/her treatment plan.
• Responsible for completion of housekeeping tasks and/or the supervision of patient general related housekeeping duties in patient areas as needed or as assigned by supervisor to maintain a clean, sanitary environment.
• Maintain patient records (traditional and electronic) which may include daily reports, round sheets etc. according to unit protocol.
• Attend patient related review meetings as a member of the interdisciplinary team as assigned by the Team nurse.
• Accompany patients to various appointments or program or treatment areas with necessary paperwork and assist professional or medical staff in providing services to patient.
• Organize, schedule and encourage patients to participate in leisure time activities, during unstructured time to enhance client socialization skills and improve level of functioning.

Required Qualifications:

• Ability to follow written and oral instructions.
• Capacity to perform basic mathematics.
• Proven ability to gather information through observing and questioning individuals.
• Talent for communicating effectively in oral expression, writing clearly and concisely and developing ideas in logical sequence.
• Skilled in interacting with people who are under emotional stress with the ability to maintain a calm manner in stressful or emergency situations.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience working with individuals with serious, persistent mental illness, substance abuse and/or who have experienced homelessness.
• Given the population served, bilingual or multilingual fluency.
• Psychiatric and acute care setting experience