Behavioral Health Specialist PRN

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking a Behavioral Health Specialist PRN to join their Emergency Services team. This role involves providing direct patient care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse, focusing on the psychological, emotional, and physical needs of patients. The specialist will assist in maintaining a therapeutic environment, implementing individual treatment plans, and contributing to patient assessments. VUMC is committed to an environment where everyone can thrive, valuing expertise, knowledge expansion, and challenging abilities. Their mission is to advance health and wellness through patient care, education, and research.

Requirements

Graduate of an approved discipline specific program
Relevant Work Experience
2 years of experience
Facilitation of Positive Coping Strategies (Intermediate)
Human Growth & Development (Intermediate)
Patient Documentation (Intermediate)
Communication (Intermediate)
Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.
Builds and Maintains Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas.
Communicates Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner.
Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.
Solves Complex Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner.
Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support.
Performs Excellent Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards.
Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department.
Demonstrates Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service.
Stewards Organizational Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources.
Makes Data Driven Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error.
Generates New Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them.
Applies Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action.
Adapts to Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.

Nice To Haves

Assists in maintaining the therapeutic environment of the clinical program with minimal guidance.
Independently assists patients with showering, oral hygiene, laundry and other activities of daily living.
Provides input to the patient’s assigned nurse and other healthcare professionals assigned to the patient regarding patient’s progress towards treatment goals.
Able to provide effective and therapeutic limit setting with patients with direction from other staff.
Assures orientation of newly admitted patient to the program and establishes a therapeutic relationship with the patients.
Provides immediate feedback to the charge nurse about any safety concerns on the unit and offers potential solutions.
Independently leads coping skills groups with patients.

Responsibilities

Performs duties of patient care necessary to implement individual treatment under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.
Provides the psychological, emotional and physical care and support required by each patient.
Assists in maintaining the therapeutic environment of the clinical program with minimal guidance.
Performs clinical care consistent with the patient's treatment plan, including but not limited to vital signs, phlebotomy, specimen collection and point of care testing as directed by unit standards.
Collects data to contribute to the assessment of individual strengths and limitations.
Independently assists patients with showering, oral hygiene, laundry and other activities of daily living.
Provides input to the patient’s assigned nurse and other healthcare professionals assigned to the patient regarding patient’s progress towards treatment goals.
Promotes and maintains a safe environment conducive to healing and health promotion.
Able to provide effective and therapeutic limit setting with patients with direction from other staff.
Assures orientation of newly admitted patient to the program and establishes a therapeutic relationship with the patients.
Provides immediate feedback to the charge nurse about any safety concerns on the unit and offers potential solutions.
Independently leads coping skills groups with patients.