Mental Health Coordinator Sr
About The Position
Bring your mental health expertise to Allina Health. You will be a vital member of our mental health coordinator team. Your focus will be on meeting the patients' needs and ensuring a smooth healthcare experience. Your dedication and teamwork contribute to maintaining the highest quality of care at Allina Health. This role is 0.75 FTE (60 hours per two-week pay period) and involves 12-hour night shifts with every third weekend rotation. The Mental Health Coordinator Sr provides direct physical care, emotional support, and educational resources to Mental Health patients under the supervision of the RN. They participate in all aspects of patient’s care to individual patients, providing unity structure, promoting safety, and creating/monitoring a therapeutic milieu. The role also involves providing therapeutic interventions, including responding to crisis situations and programming, and understanding Mental Health issues as they affect the individual and family.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in social/psychological or related field
- BLS Tier 1 - Basic Life Support - Multisource required (Certified by American Heart Association or Allina BLS by completion of orientation)
- Code Green within 60 Days required
Nice To Haves
- 2 to 5 years experience in mental health/substance abuse patient care
Responsibilities
- Provide direct physical care, emotional support and educational resources to Mental Health patients under the supervision of the RN
- Participate in all aspects of patient’s care to individual patients, providing unity structure, promoting safety and creating/monitoring a therapeutic milieu
- Provide therapeutic interventions including responding to crisis situation and programing
- Understand Mental Health issues as they affect the individual and family
- Perform safety activities
- Conduct initial and ongoing data collection and observation documentation
- Respond and document changes in patient's health status and communicate changes to the RN
- Report observations of patient's potential for violence towards self or others
- Alert nurse to extra pyramidal side effect
- Demonstrate ability to use the nurse call and door release systems
- Demonstrate use of correct Code Green techniques to provide safe and therapeutic environment for patients and staff
- Assist with activities of daily living
- Recognize escalating behaviors and attempt to redirect/refocus
- Participate in development of treatment plans and interventions
- Assist with collecting assessment data through interviews, 1:1 and group interactions/observation
- Observe physical, psychological and safety status of patient and unit on an ongoing basis
- Assist patient in establishing therapeutic goals
- Facilitate therapeutic interventions through structured activities, education or counseling per unit milieu/schedule
- Develop, implement and evaluate plan of care based on individual/family assessment
- Monitor vital signs and reports observations
- Assist with admissions and discharges
- Perform collection of specimens from patients as delegated
- May perform blood glucose monitoring
- Report abnormal findings to RN
- May facilitate/co-facilitate groups and/or activities as delegated
- Verbalize understanding of role for patients' with legal holds/commitments and issuing patient rights
- Actively participate in staff meetings and task groups
- Maintain professional appearance
- Demonstrate ability to verbally deescalate a patient and set appropriate limits
- Verbalize knowledge of mental health diagnosis including mood disorders, personalist disorders, thought disorders, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse
- Demonstrate appropriate application of limb restraints
- Demonstrate ability to verbally de-escalate a patient and set appropriate limits with a team
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- Medical/Dental
- PTO/Time Away
- Retirement Savings Plans
- Life Insurance
- Short-term/Long-term Disability
- Voluntary Benefits (vision, legal, critical illness)
- Tuition Reimbursement or Continuing Medical Education as applicable
- Student Loan Support Benefits to navigate the Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
- Well-being dollars
- Dedicated well-being navigators
- Many programs, activities, articles, videos, personal coaching and tools to support your well-being journey
- Employee resources groups (ERGs)
- Community involvement and volunteering events
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
