Mental Health Worker, CRESST Job at Fraser Health
Why Fraser Health?:
Effective October 26th, 2021 all staff for all positions across Health Care require full COVID 19 vaccination. All positions, require that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (have received a full series of a World Health Organization “WHO” approved vaccine against infection by SARS-COV-2, or a combination of approved WHO vaccines). Please note this applies to all postings, and there are no exceptions.
Position Highlights
Valued Benefits
We invite you to apply today and find out why more than 95% of new employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends and family as a phenomenal place to work! We value diversity in the work force and aim to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring & Trust.
Find out what it’s like to work here. Like us on Facebook(@fraserhealthcareers), follow us on Twitter & Instagram(@FHCareer), or connect with us on LinkedIn (fraserhealthcareers) for first-hand employee insights!
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:
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
Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services to over 1.9 million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations. Our team of 43,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision: Better health, best in health care.
Effective October 26th, 2021 all staff for all positions across Health Care require full COVID 19 vaccination. All positions, require that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (have received a full series of a World Health Organization “WHO” approved vaccine against infection by SARS-COV-2, or a combination of approved WHO vaccines). Please note this applies to all postings, and there are no exceptions.
Position Highlights
We are currently looking to fill exciting casual positions as a Mental Health Workers, CRESST located in Abbotsford, BC.
Valued Benefits
A career with Fraser Health will offer you the opportunity to be a part of a dedicated team of professionals in a dynamic and rewarding health care environment. We offer a competitive compensation and benefit package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.
We invite you to apply today and find out why more than 95% of new employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends and family as a phenomenal place to work! We value diversity in the work force and aim to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring & Trust.
Find out what it’s like to work here. Like us on Facebook(@fraserhealthcareers), follow us on Twitter & Instagram(@FHCareer), or connect with us on LinkedIn (fraserhealthcareers) for first-hand employee insights!
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.
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.
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