Mental Health Specialist

Join Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital is a proud Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice. On our team, you will provide stellar care at one of the top healthcare organizations in the nation.

The Psychiatry Unit provides behavioral health and mental health crisis stabilization for children and adolescents. With a multidisciplinary team of caregivers, this unit supports patients with acute behavioral, emotional, and/or psychiatric concerns that require ongoing assessment and/or treatment. As a Mental Health Specialist on this team, you will help facilitate this transformative support and support patients as they strive for overall wellness and health. In this role, you will facilitate group therapy sessions with children in the Peds Psych unit, focusing on safety planning, behavior management and therapeutic support.

A caregiver in this role works a day/evening rotation from 7:00 a.m. - 7:30 p.m. or 3:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. with rotating weekend requirements.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide direct patient care under the direction of an RN.

• Facilitate structured programming based on milieu needs of pediatric patients.

• Assist in milieu management.

• Plan and organize group programming, including but not limited gross motor, psycho-educational and recreational groups focused on patients' individual and collective needs under the supervision of the Therapeutic Program Coordinator.

• Provide a caring, warm environment for patients through setting clear boundaries and interacting in a supportive and encouraging manner to help build self-esteem, age-appropriate interpersonal skills, positive thinking, problem solving, social cues and language, coping skills, and respect for others and self.

• Work collaboratively with the interdisciplinary treatment team by contributing clinical information and observations about patients.

• Communicate in a non-judgmental manner, use effective listening techniques, demonstrate abilities to acknowledge, reflect back to the speaker, paraphrase, and use open-ended questions.

• Document and describe patient behavior, interventions and responses to interventions in Epic.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Bachelor's Degree in a humanities field, such as Psychology, Sociology, Social Work or Child Development

• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA)

• Non-Abusive Psychological and Physical Intervention (NAPPI) Certification upon or within the new hire period

• General knowledge of CBT, DBT, trauma-informed care and related interventions

• Knowledge of lifespan development, abnormal psychology, therapeutic processes, growth and development, behavioral management and therapeutic relationships

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Previous mental health experience

• Prior therapy experience with adults or children, preferably in a group therapy setting

• Experience working with children

• Group facilitation experience

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Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patient, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.

• Requires standing and walking for extended periods of time.

• Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.

• Requires working under stressful conditions and irregular hours.

• Exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.

• Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

• Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

Pay Range

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