Mental Health Patient Care Specialist

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Are you a compassionate and dedicated individual eager to empower others on their journey to well-being? Join our dynamic team as a Patient Care Specialist and become a vital part of the healing process! This isn't just a job; it's an opportunity to provide insightful, practical, and meaningful support that truly impacts lives from admission through discharge.

Full-time, Part-time, and PRN positions available

What You'll Do

As a Patient Care Specialist, you'll be on the front lines, offering unwavering support and guidance. Your days will be filled with purpose as you :

• Champion Patients : Provide validation, unconditional positive regard, and skillful coaching to help patients navigate challenges and utilize their strengths.
• Be a Trusted Confidante : Understand and maintain the confidential nature of all patient activities, building a foundation of trust.
• Grow and Learn : Participate in all training, education, and staff enrichment activities, aligning with our philosophy, mission, and objectives.
• Model Excellence : Serve as a positive role model, demonstrating appropriate and positive behavior with professionalism, warmth, and genuine care.
• Collaborate and Communicate : Share vital patient progress information with the treatment team and attend meetings as needed, ensuring seamless care.
• Cultivate a Welcoming Environment : Maintain an inviting, tidy, and clean facility, ensuring supplies are always at hand.
• Empower Through Education : Support clinicians and co-lead groups, documenting content, skills taught, and patient participation.
• Guide and Inspire : Manage milieu behavior, developing, following, and modifying rewards and consequences using a proven point and level system.
• Foster Healthy Habits : Actively participate in group meals, supervising, managing, and role-modeling positive eating behaviors.
• Build Meaningful Connections : Balance building rapport with patients while fostering their comfort and confidence.
• Master Behavioral Techniques : Learn and apply effective behavior techniques to manage ineffective behaviors consistently and with compassion.
• Ensure Safe Transport : Safely transport patients to and from appointments or activities in a company vehicle, adhering to all safety, transportation, and patient care protocols, and maintaining vehicle condition.
• Contribute to a Greater Cause : Perform additional duties as assigned, supporting the overall mission of our treatment center.

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

Physical Demands And Work Environment

You'll thrive in a clean, well-lit, and well-ventilated medical facility. This role involves regular communication, use of hands and fingers, and occasional standing, walking, sitting, reaching, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling. You may occasionally lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus. While the noise level is usually moderate, you may be exposed to some hazards such as bodily fluids that may contain disease. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Seniority level

Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Health Care Provider

Industries

Hospitals and Health Care and Mental Health Care

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