About This Role
Working under the supervision of a Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse, this role assists in the routine care of patients during psychosocial rehabilitative activities, self-care, and structured group activities. The Mental Health Care Worker helps maintain a safe environment and provides ongoing monitoring of patients' status, assisting with daily living activities and transporting patients to appointments.
Responsibilities
- Work under the direction of the care leader, participating in the stabilization, rehabilitation, and care of patients by providing personal care, teaching simple social skills, escorting patients, and monitoring activities
- Provide direct personal care by assisting patients with bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, prosthetics, and elimination
- Escort patients off unit for treatment or diagnostic procedures
- Assist patients at mealtime, while monitoring their safety, by providing assistance with meal trays and assisting with feeding of selected patients as required
- Assist patients to undertake activities of daily living (ADL) including making beds, assisting patients to organize personal belongings, and doing personal laundry
- Assist patients with retrieving personal care supplies from storage area as required
- Provide one-to-one personal care and observation of specific patients as directed by the RN/RPN
- Assist with care of the patient in the seclusion room as directed by the RN/RPN, such as assisting with ADL activities and delivering food
- Report observations of patients' conditions to the Nursing staff and care team in accordance with established procedures/practice by recording observations on the patient health care record at the direction of the RN/RPN
- Participate in meetings such as ward rounds and team meetings, as directed, by providing feedback on observations related to work done with specific patients
- Work under the direction of the RN/RPN or Occupational Therapist, facilitating patients' participation in psychosocial rehabilitation activities by methods such as setting schedules and participating in unit scheduled individual and group activities
- Transport patients to off-site appointments by operating a passenger vehicle
- Participate in orientation to the unit by familiarizing patients, families, new staff, volunteers, and students with the layout of the unit, patient rooms, and unit routines
- Maintain unit safety by assisting with routine search of room and client belongings as directed by nursing staff
- Perform procedures such as weighing patients, monitoring nutritional and fluid intake and elimination, and collecting specimens
- Record observations and report problems and/or changes to the RN/RPN
- Assist patients with retrieval/storage and/or relocation of personal effects to different rooms within the unit
