Recovery Specialist/CNA - Behavioral Health 116
Company: Telecare
Location: Oakland
Posted on: January 21, 2023
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Job Description:
Founded in 1965, Telecare is a rapidly growing mental health
care company dedicated to making a difference for our clients, the
community, and our employees. We offer an array of mental health
services to adults with serious mental illness. We partner with
public sector entities and behavioral health organizations and have
over 155 programs and over 4,300 employees across the country. And
we're growing all the time! When you work at Telecare, you help to
empower thousands of individuals every day in their journeys of
recovery.
As a part of the Telecare Family, Garfield Neurobehavioral Center
is a 56-bed Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) providing medical,
nursing and rehabilitative services to individuals who have a
neurobehavioral illness as well as a mental illness.Garfield
primarily serves adults between the ages of 18-64.
Employment Status: Full Time
Shift: AM 7:00 am - 3:30 pm
Days:Varies as needed
Wage range $18.22 - $25.69 - Telecare applies geographic
differentials to its pay ranges. The pay range assigned to this
role will be based on the geographic location from which the role
is performed. Starting pay is commensurate with relevant experience
above the minimum requirements.
Learn more about the role:
https://www.telecarecorp.com/recovery-specialist-ii
POSITION SUMMARY
The Recovery Specialist I provides care that responds to the
physical and psychological needs of members served, and is
consistent with recovery-centered care principles.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
--- Demonstrates the Telecare mission, purpose, values, and beliefs
in everyday language and contact with the internal and external
stakeholders
--- Assists in the welcome, admission, and discharge processes
--- Supports and coaches members served in activities of daily
living
--- Ensures safety of members served through monitoring and
observation; completes related documentation
--- Monitors and assists members at mealtime
--- Attends and participates in community meetings and groups
--- Participates in and facilitates rehabilitation therapy groups
and activities, as needed
--- Implements treatment of care plans
--- Helps to create a recovery environment through interactions
with staff and members served
--- Collects stool, urine and other specimens, as requested on
assigned members served
--- Obtains vital signs and weights, as assigned
--- Practices standard precautions at all times
--- Participates actively in multidisciplinary team meetings and
treatment planning meetings
--- Demonstrates knowledge of PART principles and techniques
--- Informs the charge nurse of observed behaviors and
conditions
--- Observes, records, and reports client social, psychiatric, and
physical behavior; demonstrates the ability to recognize changes in
client milieu and makes modifications in care giving methods
--- Reviews admission documentation and assists in collecting
assessment data
--- Must assist with restraint of members served in the event of
assaultive behavior and pass assault crisis/crisis prevention
training
Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted and/or changed at
the discretion of management.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
--- High school or G.E.D.
--- Demonstrated sensitivity to behavioral health issues and
multi-cultural populations (e.g., exposure through family
relationships, volunteering, or other previous experience(s) or
coursework)
--- For Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) - must have a current
Certified Nursing Assistant Certificate in the state of
operation
--- Must be at least 18 years of age
--- Must be CPR, Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), and First Aid
certified on date of employment or within 60 days of employment and
maintain current certification throughout employment
--- All opportunities at Telecare are contingent upon successful
completion and receipt of acceptable results of the applicable
post-offer physical examination, 2-step PPD test for tuberculosis,
acceptable criminal background clearances, excluded party
sanctions, and degree or license verification. If the position
requires driving, valid driver's license, a motor vehicle clearance
and proof of auto insurance is required at time of employment and
must be maintained throughout employment. Additional regulatory,
contractual or local requirements may apply
Preferred:
--- Previous experience with population to be served and/or work in
a similar program setting
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands here are representative of those that must be
met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions
of this job.
The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, twist, push,
pull, bend, squat, kneel and lift and carry items weighing 25
pounds or less as well as to frequently sit, reach and do simple
and power grasping. The position requires manual deviation,
repetition and dexterity.
EOE AA M/F/V/Disability
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with
Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner
discriminate against employees or applicants because they have
inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of
another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access
to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as
a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of
other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise
have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is
(a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance
of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an
investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the
contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR
60-1.35(c)
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