24 Feb
2023
Full-Time Mental health worker – Tuesday to Saturday Shift – Hatta
Job Description
Patients in the Behavioral Health Services Inpatient Unit are cared for by the Mental Health Worker, who is an integral member of the nursing staff. The Mental Health Worker participates in the evaluation, physical, and psychological treatment programmers of the units via the use of individual and group techniques. The Behavioral Health Services Crisis Center also relies on the Mental Health Worker for support (CCC). The role demands the capacity to communicate effectively with both people and social organizations.
Job Title : Mental health worker – Tuesday to Saturday Shift
Location : Hatta, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary : $ 24.92 per hour.
Company : Charles Schwab Corp.
Job Type : Full-Time
Qualifications:
- If you want to get the most out of your job, you must be adaptable and willing to explore new approaches to tried-and-true problems. Demonstrates knowledge of and adaptability to clinical care, care for all life stages, and care for educational components in all health and sickness circumstances.
- Successful candidates will be dedicated to treating all patients with dignity and respect through interactions that affirm the individual’s needs and preferences and by optimally integrating the patient’s perspective into all aspects of care. They will also act as an advocate for patients, help to quickly address patient concerns, and support patients in exercising their legal rights.
- To better assist patients and promote safety, the mental health nurse will make an effort to get to know each patient. They will also put the ideas of security, optimism, and healing into practice. De-escalation strategies, providing trauma-informed treatment, and utilizing the patients’ unique crisis plans are all part of this.
- While on duty, ensures that all personnel are kept up to date on patient status and overall unit conditions via written and verbal reports. Acquainted with non-violent crisis intervention techniques Constantly keeping an eye on the proper use of seclusion and restraint policies, as well as their proper rotation, and documenting their findings in accordance with established guidelines.
- Identifies strategies to use activities of daily living (ADLs) therapeutically and helps patients with tasks like washing, dressing, eating, etc. Takes and records the patient’s temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration as instructed by the Resorts staff before sending them to other departments for procedures like as diagnostics, etc. while staying with them and offering assistance as needed.
- Clients’ daily needs and human rights are met through the provision of programmed direct care services in the areas of preparing meals, bathing, urinating and dressing as well as oral and physical hygiene and self-preservation.
- The instruction and support for ADLs, such as self-care routines like eating and bathing, that promote independent performance are also covered by direct care services.
- Individual qualities, such as age or cultural background, should be taken into account when developing a treatment plan for a patient. Using your observations, you may be able to assist the person in charge in identifying problems and devising and putting into action solutions.
- When a patient needs assistance with any of the following: food and water intake; cleanliness; self-sufficiency and self-preservation; recording and reporting vital signs, a caretaker is there to direct and/or help.
- Participates in and organizes leisure activities. Organizes leisure activities to suit the psychosocial and intellectual needs of patients and demonstrates analytical skills and a grasp of psychiatric diseases.
Skills:
- Participating in extracurricular activities both as an organizer and as a participant While the therapist displays analytical skills and understanding of mental conditions, the patients’ psychological and intellectual requirements are satisfied.
- Implements the treatment plan in line with the unit’s policies and procedures and exhibits the capacity to establish supportive, constant therapeutic limitations that are within the parameters of the unit’s and the department’s standards.
- Candidates must have at least one year of full-time or comparable part-time experience providing direct care to the mentally ill, emotionally disturbed, or physically challenged, or (B) any combination of the needed experience and the substitutes listed below, in order to be considered.
- AFSCME/Council 93 and the Department of Mental Health have agreed that employees assigned to work units employing the Medication Administration Program (MAP) must complete MAP certification within six months of commencing their employment or three chances for examination, whichever is earlier. Your certification must be current for the duration of your participation in the MAP programmed.
- Accomplished in caring for patients of various ages as well as the impacts of ageing, developmental stages and cultural norms.