Mental Health Worker - Per Diem Job Listing at Hackensack Meridian Health in North Bergen, NJ (Job ID 3504158-2024-06-16)

Description

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It's also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

Provides Mental Health Services to patients and their families including the assessment and treatment of mental health conditions with referrals for appropriate follow-up work.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Social Work or related field. MSW preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Minimum of two years experience in mental health or State of New Jersey Division of Mental Health Services approved equivalent experience. Experience requirements waived if Master¿s degree is obtained.
• High stress
• Willingness to work with the realization that errors and incompetency may have serious consequences to patients.
• Long periods of sitting with frequent standing or moving to other areas to retrieve or return documents, and make copies.
• Requires constant verbal communication in person or using the phone.
• Requires frequent reading or correspondence, reports, materials, etc.
• Requires ability to read and concentrate frequently to check accuracy of reports, correspondence, computer records, etc.
• Requires ability to read, understand, analyze and interpret policies and procedures.
• Requires ability to deal with stress of dealing with public, frequent interruptions, and working on more than one task concurrently.
• Requires flexibility in order to respond to changes in priorities, special project assignments, and emergency situations.
• Apply principals of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions in order to provide effective patient care.
• Manage time appropriately to meet patient and department needs.
• Telephone, copier, facsimile machine.

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

• Proficient computer skills that include but are not limited to Microsoft Office and/or Google Suite platforms.

Licenses and Certifications Preferred:

• ACSW preferred.

Contacts:

• Extensive contact with medical personnel and its visitors.

If you feel the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!