School Based Mental Health Aide (Part-Time/Temporary)

We are seeking a compassionate, engaging, and organized individual to join our school-based team in the Nettleton School District in Jonesboro. The school-based mental health aide will assist and supervise the children (K-6th grade) as part of the 8-week summer program. The person who accepts this position needs to be an excellent communicator, self-motivated, flexible, and demonstrate patience with others. Under the supervision and direction of a Therapist and the Program Coordinator, the school-based mental health aide will assist school-based staff in daily supervision of the children that attend the therapeutic summer program. The school-based mental health aide will conduct structured activities during the hours of the summer program.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Supervise clients during the summer program hours of the 8-week therapeutic program
• Create a fun, positive, and safe environment
• Encourage teamwork, respect, and help work with the children attending the program
• Lead children in activities such as basketball, games, arts and crafts, and more
• Prepare materials/activities for implementing summer program and provide documentation where appropriate/needed.
• Actively participate as a member of the client's treatment team providing pertinent input regarding client concerns, progress, etc.
• Interact with and communicate with parents/guardians
• Attend regular staff meetings to maintain open communication between the treatment team
• Check emails a minimum of twice a day (morning and afternoon) and respond timely.
• The ability to consistently perform these duties and represent Methodist Family Health in the most professional, ethical manner consistent with our mission to provide the best possible care to those who may need our help and to treat the whole person: behaviorally, emotionally and spiritually.

Qualifications:

• Must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age
• Must have a minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent, but 60+ hours of college education is preferred
• Must possess excellent communication and strong customer services skills
• Possess good computer skills, some experience with Microsoft Word and Excel applications preferred, but not required.
• Ability to document accurately and professionally.
• Experience working with "at-risk" youth or other populations with special needs preferred.
• Ability as a self-motivator and the aptitude to work in a high stress fast paced position with a minimal amount of supervision.

Additional Mandatory Requirements:

• Must be physically capable to receive verbal and written directions
• Remains current in Crisis Prevention Intervention Training, CPR & First Aid
• Must be willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health, regardless of gender
• Must have good auditory, visual and olfactory ability
• Use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls
• Must be able to maintain effective audio, visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading and writing, and operating office equipment and other treatment equipment.
• Must be able to use a telephone to communicate verbally and a computer to communicate through written means, to review information and enter/retrieve data, to see and read characters on a computer screen, chart or other treatment items
• Requires the ability to sit for long periods of time and intermittently walk, stand, stoop, kneel, crouch and reach with hands and arms.

Flu vaccination are mandatory and required for all positions (subject to qualified exemptions).

Other:

The individual employed in this position may accept other reasonable assignments, which may be necessary, for efficient operation of assigned programs as there is time and opportunity. Job descriptions are not intended, nor should be construed, to be all-inclusive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary. Level One -

Full Access:

Ongoing regular access to PHI of all forms while the employee is on duty and performing within the scope of his or her job as defined by the employee's job description, and Policy and Procedure. "Such access must be for cause, consistent with job responsibilities and related to patients, claims, audits, reviews and other legitimate business purposes." (e.g. Physicians, nurses and other clinicians).