Psych Mental Health Specialist

Position Title

Psych Mental Health Specialist

UKH Olathe Pavilion Main Campus

Position Summary / Career Interest :

The Psych Mental Health Specialist (PMHS) has a unique clinician role to integrate care across all settings where individuals with mental health issues or psychiatric disorders are found. The primary goal of the PMHS is continuous improvement of patient outcomes and nursing care for patients hospitalized for medical / surgical conditions who are living with psych and mental health issues. Key elements of PMHS practice are to create environments through mentoring and system changes that empower nurses to develop caring evidence-based practices to alleviate patient distress facilitate ethical decision-making and respond to diversity. The PMHS is responsible and accountable for collaborative assessment diagnosis and treatment of mental health / illness states in context of disease management health promotion and prevention of illness and risk behaviors among individuals families groups and communities.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Coaching Competency : Provide skillful guidance and teaching to advance the care of patients families groups of patients and the profession of nursing. Provides health promotion and maintenance and teaches self-care activities.
• Consultation and Collaboration Competency : Demonstrate patient staff or system focused interaction between professionals in which the consultant is recognized as having specialized expertise and assists consultee with problem solving. Work jointly with others to optimize clinical outcomes. The PMHS collaborates at an advanced level by committing to authentic engagement and constructive patient family system and population-focused problem solving.
• Ethical decision-making moral agency and advocacy : Identifying articulating and acting on ethical concerns at the patient family health care provider system community and public policy levels.
• Expert Clinical Practice Competency : Provide direct interaction with patients families and groups of patients to promote health or well-being and improve quality of life. Characterized by a holistic perspective in the advanced nursing management of health illness and disease states. Administer and monitor psychobiological treatments regimens and practice crisis intervention and stabilization.
• Research / EBP Competence : Actively engage in thorough and systematic inquiry. Includes the search for interpretation and use of evidence in clinical practice and quality improvement to address clinical problem as well as active participation in the conduct of research.
• Systems Leadership Competency : Work within interdisciplinary teams. Demonstrates ability to manage change and empower others to influence clinical practice and political processes both within and across systems.
• Must be able to perform the professional clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

Preferred Education and Experience

Required Licensure and Certification

Preferred Licensure and Certification

Time Type : Full time

Job Requisition ID : R-47959

We are an equal employment opportunity employer without regard to a persons race color religion sex (including pregnancy gender identity and sexual orientation) national origin ancestry age (40 or older) disability veteran status or genetic information.

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1