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About the Role

Provide care for patients under the direction of physicians or health practitioners. Demonstrate a positive, empathetic, and professional attitude, resolving complaints when patient needs are not met. Prioritize patient safety.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate urgency regarding patient safety and excellent customer service.
• Ensure patient well-being and provide a positive, supportive, and structured environment.
• Conduct safety checks and ensure supervision at 15-minute intervals or as individualized guidelines require.
• Document timely, accurate, and appropriate clinical information in patient medical records.
• Assist in providing a safe, secure, and comfortable environment for patients, significant others, and staff.
• Monitor patient safety through timely required rounds, ensuring clean and uncluttered patient rooms.
• Provide 15-minute or 1:1 patient observation as assigned.
• Obtain and accurately document patient vital signs, height, and weight as assigned.
• Identify self to patients and visitors promptly, responding quickly to patient requests.
• Engage patients in activities and interactions to encourage treatment goal achievement.
• Respond to distressed patients non-threateningly, attempting to understand the source of distress.
• Apply de-escalation techniques to manage patient emotions, behavior, and treatment participation, assisting with seclusion and restraint when necessary.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to enhance patient safety, coping skills, and independence.
• Monitor and reinforce positive behavioral improvements, reporting changes and responses to treatment to the team, and significant changes to the nurse immediately.
• Reinforce skills learned from nurses, physicians, and therapists to promote improved physical and mental wellness.
• Oversee or assist patients with activities of daily living, including toileting, bathing, dressing, grooming, oral hygiene, meals, snacks, hydration, and changing bed linens, as needed.
• Assist with admissions and discharges as needed.
• Lead or co-lead individual or group sessions for recreational or therapeutic procedures.
• Participate in rehabilitation and treatment programs, teaching strategies to promote patient wellness and independence as needed.
• Provide or coordinate patient transportation with appropriate staff as needed.
• Ensure accuracy, neatness, and timeliness in work completion.
• Perform other assigned functions and tasks.

Requirements

• CPR certification required
• De-escalation and restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility)
• First aid certification may be required based on state or facility requirements

Skills

• De-escalation techniques
• Restraint techniques
• Patient care
• Customer service
• Documentation
• Observation
• Vital signs measurement
• Activities of daily living assistance
• Group session leadership
• Patient transportation

Experience Level

• Six months experience as a BHA1 preferred
• Six months or more experience working with the specific population of the facility preferred

Education Level

• High school diploma or equivalent required

Equal Opportunity

• Committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual’s characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and local laws.