Safety Specialist Watkins 2
Safety Specialist Watkins 2
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Job Description
Overview
Hours: 32 Hour Evening Shift Every other week end Every other holiday
Responsibilities
- Works together with departmental and healthcare teams to complete assignments.
- Maintains a clean and comfortable environment for patients and visitors.
- Prevents potential safety hazards from occurring by removing or arranging for the removal of safety hazards from the environment immediately.
- Prioritizes and reprioritizes work based on the changing needs of the customers.
- Ensures the safety of patients in the milieu.
- Performs patient checks and documents the whereabouts of all patients every thirty minutes or more frequently if requested.
- Accounts for all patients locked belongings and sharps ensuring they are signed out and back in by the end of the shift.
- Greets and directs all patients visitors and hospital personnel that come onto the Geriatric Psych Unit.
- Responds to patient and visitor needs as well as provides information and refers matters of concern to staff.
- Provides input and patient information to the team that contributes to the safety needs development and implementation of the patient care plan.
- Delivers trays to patients and monitors patient meals.
- Assists patients in completing menus and obtaining additional nutritional needs.
- Performs room safety checks and completes required documentation.
- Provides specialized suicide watch to patients needing it to ensure their safety.
- Maintains and promotes therapeutic milieu to enhance patients care of plan and treatment.
- Encourages patient conversations participation in therapy and interpatient relationships while observing behaviors.
- Acts as a liaison between patients and staff by providing information on patient behaviors to ensure patient safety as well as enhance care planning and treatment.
Exerts 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Frequently reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction) handles (seizing holding grasping turning or working with hands) and feels (perceiving attributes of items such as size shape temperature or texture by means of fingertips). Occasionally stoops (bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist) and kneels (bending the legs at knee to come to rest on knee or knees).
Qualifications
Job Requirements
- High school graduate or equivalent preferred.
Minimum Work Experience
- C.N.A. EMT Security experience preferred
- Mental/Behavioral Health experience preferred
- Experience with patient care and a desire to work on a Mental Health Unit or other units as needed
Minimum Licenses and Certifications
- AHABLS CPR Required or obtained within 60 days of hire
- Obtain Crisis Avoidance Training (CAT) within 3 months of hire
- Willingness to do limited hand on care required
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
