Mental Health Specialist - Adult - Epstein 5 -32 hrs Nights eow/eoh

Company: Partners Healthcare System
Location: Salem
Posted on: June 9, 2021

Job Description:

Exciting opportunity to work directly with adults or children on inpatient psychiatric units at Salem Hospital. These positions involve establishing therapeutic relationship with patients while maintaining professional boundaries , participation in patient care rounds, managing the milieu and facilitating psycho education and therapeutic group activities. The successful candidate will identify patient behaviors that contribute to the development of a crisis, and utilize nonverbal and verbal techniques to de-escalate crisis situations, as these units are striving to be a restraint free environment to promote the recovery of patients. Positions require some scheduling flexibility, including every other weekend and rotating holidays.

North Shore Medical Center Psychiatry service includes a comprehensive array of psychiatric services including 120 inpatient beds all on the Salem campus. NSMC is a member of the Partners Health Care Network that includes MGH, Brigham, McLean, Newton Wellesley Hospital and other Partners institutions.

Required:

• High school degree or GED required.
• Requires verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate with patients of diverse age, population, and multitude of cultural/ethnic background.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in human services.
• Experience in an inpatient mental health unit.

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