Nursing Assistant

Serves as an active member of the clinical staff; maintains a therapeutic relationship with all patients; assists in maintenance of a safe, clean, therapeutic environment; assures patient participation in program activities; and performs technical/patient care duties relative to patient’s health and safety. A current C.N.A. certificate is required. A minimum of 1 year experience with psychiatric or addiction patients preferred.

Qualifications:

Education

Years of Related Experience

Minimum

Preferred

Minimum

Preferred

C.N.A. Certification

X

0 – 1

Technical School/2 Years College / associate degree

1 – 3

X

Bachelor’s Degree

3 – 5

X

Required Knowledge, Skills, Licensure, Training & Travel Requirements (if applicable):

  Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write documentation of patients behavior, document clinical records that include Q15 quality checks, and routine reports and correspondence.  Also, Employee must have the ability to speak effectively to acute mental health and addiction patients, their family members, physicians and other treatment staff before groups of people or employees of organization, and individually.

  Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or illustrative form.  Also has the ability to deal with problems involving acute mental health patients and able to verbally de-escalate patients and remain calm in stressful situations when necessary. Discern when a situation within the unit is becoming escalated with a patient or patients.  Able to communicate these concerns to other treatment staff members.

Obtain vital signs, administer Oxygen, administer UDS test, administer UCG test, and perform ECG testing only when specifically trained for Assist in all patient’s Activity of Daily Living.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand for long period of times, walk, and occasionally sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  Employee must be able to assist with physically restraining a patient when necessary.  Also, may be exposed to second hand smoke during smoke break time with patients. May be exposed to weather conditions include heat outdoors while monitoring patients who are participating in their break time in designated courtyards.
The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally up to 75 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.