About this role
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
- Comprehensive Health Coverage – Medical, dental, and vision plans to keep you and your family healthy.
- Future Security – 401(k) with employer matching to help you build long-term financial stability.
- Educational Assistance – Tuition Reimbursement- because we invest in your future.
- Competitive Pay & Full Benefits – A salary and package designed to reward your expertise and dedication.
Role: Mental Health Worker
Location: Merit Health River Region - Vicksburg, MS
Schedule: Full time Days - 7am-7pm- 3 shifts per week- rotating weekends & holidays
Job Summary
The Mental Health Worker I functions as a member of the interdisciplinary team to assess the functional abilities, impairments, and needs of each patient and address these individually. Provides support to the nursing staff and patient care through the direction and guidance of licensed staff and leaders.
Essential Functions
- Ensures supplies and equipment for patient care are readily available and organized in an efficient manner.
- Correctly identifies and uses appropriately personal protective equipment.
- Responds to patient and family requests promptly.
- Accurately monitors and records patient information, test results and stats.
- Provides care to assigned patients including the activities of daily living, non-medication pain management and other interventions.
- Accurately follows patient care policies, practices and protocols i.e. sterile technique and skin care protocol.
- Assists with personal hygiene and elimination needs.
- Provides patient with clean linen and towels at the beginning of shift and changes both as needed.
- Answers call system promptly and intervenes appropriately.
- Cleans equipment as directed.
- Ensures continuity of professional care and participates in program development and process improvement.
- Follow proper procedures during verbal and physical de-escalation of patients. Able to individually individually perform crisis intervention and restrain violent patients. Responds to all Code White alerts.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Maintains regular and reliable attendance.
- Complies with all policies and standards.
Qualifications
- 0-2 years of experience as a patient care assistant in a mental health hospital setting required
Licenses and Certifications
- BCLS - Basic Life Support required
- De-escalation Training Certification required
Other facts
About Community Health Systems
Community Health Systems is one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. Developing and operating healthcare delivery systems across 14 states, CHS is committed to helping people get well and live healthier. CHS affiliates operate 70 acute-care hospitals and more than 1,000 other sites of care, including physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupational medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers and ambulatory surgery centers.
What you'll do
- The Mental Health Worker I assesses the functional abilities and needs of patients while providing support to nursing staff. Responsibilities include monitoring patient information, assisting with daily living activities, and ensuring the availability of care supplies.
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