Mental Health Worker, CRESST
3 weeks ago
The salary range for this position is CAD $27.92 - $29.60 / hour
Job Summary
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Detailed Overview
Reporting to the Manager and under the general supervision of the Coordinator, acts as a support person to the nurses to promote a safe therapeutic environment for clients. Assists clients with personal care, performs cleaning and housekeeping duties, and limited food preparation and serving of meals. Implements established activities to meet client activation, recreational and social needs. Assists with activities of daily living as required. Provides feedback to clinical staff regarding client issues.
Responsibilities
- Assists clients with activities of daily living such as feeding, lifts and transfers, bathing, skin care, oral hygiene, and toileting, and assisting as necessary with dressing and laundry. Encourages clients to perform activities of daily living.
- Attends facility and client reports at the commencement of each shift. Completes and maintains client activity profiles such as client intake forms and dietary/meal-monitoring forms. Communicates the necessary tasks that need completion to appropriate team members by means such as verbal discussion and/or via logbook. Observes clients and their environments, and reports unsafe conditions and behavioural, physical, and/or cognitive changes to supervisor. Provides feedback to supervisor or duty nurse regarding client or staff concerns via discussion or logbook.
- Performs limited food preparation such as heating prepared food, making tea, coffee, toast, salads and sandwiches. Attends to clients who require assistance with feeding and cleans up dining area following meals. Records client food intake on Meal Monitoring forms and reports any dietary concerns to professional staff.
- Performs housekeeping duties such as immediate spill clean-up, caretaking of dishes/garbage/recycling; cleaning of patient/client room on discharge such as wiping down of surfaces, sweeping, replacing linens and remaking beds, bagging, labelling and storing of client belongings left behind; and, night shift housekeeping including mopping and laundering of bedding items as required.
- Accompanies clients on outings such as appointments, shopping, and leisure activities including walks. Provides tour of facility to new clients. Performs other related duties as directed by nurses.
- Facilitates and promotes client activation and participation in life skills, recreational, and/or social activities and activity groups such as walking, karaoke, and scrabble, and provides demonstrations as required. Adapts and modifies established activities to meet the special needs of clients. Provides feedback regarding the performance and progress of clients.
- Checks and restocks supplies such as personal care supplies and towels regularly including upon patient/client admission. Stores cleaning supplies appropriately, informs clerk when stocks are low and distributes items as required.
- Observes facility and parkade conditions, and reports issues and unsafe conditions including items requiring repair during meetings with Coordinator or duty nurse. Salts pathways as required.
- Participates in the orientation of student Mental Health Workers and new Mental Health Worker staff.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
Completion of Grade 12. Successful completion of a Community Mental Health Worker or Long Term Care Aide Certificate or equivalent, plus six (6) months related experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Current Food Safe - Basic Level certification.
Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrated ability to perform various arts and crafts, handicrafts, and sports activities.
- Ability to effectively manage changing workload under pressure, and during times of change.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, while seeking the appropriate level of consultation and approval from the Care Leader.
- Ability to maintain confidentially in accordance with applicable regional policies and codes of ethics.
- Ability to provide effective and efficient service while meeting Health Region policies, standards and protocol reqirements.
- Basic knowledge of the concepts of psychosocial rehabilitation and normalization.
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with staff, clients, other individuals and outside agencies.
- Ability to communicate appropriately and effectively, both orally and in writing, in English.
- Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to get along well with others.
- Ability to prioritize and organize work, to effectively manage a heavy and demanding workload and to exercise sound judgement.
- Ability to operated related equipment.
- Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
About Fraser Health
Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
Together, we are the heart of health care.
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