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Overall, the role of a Behavioral Health Unit Assistant/CNA is to provide compassionate care, support, and supervision to individuals with mental health challenges, helping them to achieve stability, cope with their conditions, and improve their quality of life. Job Description:
The Role: Behavioral Health Unit Assistant/Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
Provides patient care under the supervision of an RN following applicable scope and standards of practice, and with the policies, values, and mission of the organization.
The Opportunity:
This is a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic CNA to join our team of highly skilled professionals at the Alfond Center for Health in Augusta.
What You'll Do:
- Assists with ensuring the safety of the patients, while helping to meet their emotional, physical, recreational, and mental health needs.
- Assists with keeping the therapeutic environment safe, clean, orderly, and appropriately stocked.
- Communicates in a therapeutic manner, uses de-escalation techniques, and reports abnormal findings or changes in physical, mental, and emotional conditions to nursing staff.
Your Qualifications:
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- Enrolled in a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) course within one year of hire required. Certified as a Nursing Assistant (CNA) is required within 18 months of hire.
- Basic Life Support (BLS); and Management of Aggressive Behavior (MOAB) is required within 6 months of hire.
- A minimum of one year of directly related work experience is strongly preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications is desired.
- Exceptional customer service and communication skills.
Why Choose MaineGeneral:
- Exciting Shift Differentials: Potential to earn up to an additional $7/hr. for specific shifts.
- Access comprehensive wellness benefits, including health, dental, vision, and more.
- Benefit from employee discounts, generous parental leave, and ample earned time off.
- Retirement planning with up to 4% company contributions.
- Potential student loan reimbursement
- Embrace growth opportunities within our organization
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
36 Scheduled Work Shift:
Job Exempt:
No Benefits:
Supporting all aspects of our employees’ wellness – physical, emotional and financial – is a critical component of being a great place to work. With the wide range of benefits and programs available, employees have the resources they need to be well at every stage of life and plan for the future.
Physical Wellness:
- We offer quality health, dental, and vision benefits and wellness programs and resources to provide employees access to resources for a healthy lifestyle and help manage health care costs.
- Employees have access to industry-leading leave for new parents.
- A generous earned time plan is offered to all employees - We believe employees need and deserve time away from work to observe holidays, be with family, go on vacation, or simply take care of themselves.
Emotional Wellness:
When life gets challenging, employees have access to our Employee Assistance Program for employees and anyone in their household.
Financial Wellness:
- An employee discount program is available to all employees for services provided by MaineGeneral Medical Center.
- Tuition Reimbursement is available to all employees to further develop skills and career.
- We offer eligible employees up to 2% of eligible pay in 403(b) company-matching contributions plus another 2% in the 401(a) retirement income plan.
- Three insurance plans are available to protect your family from the sudden loss of income in the event of your death, terminal illness or serious injury from accident.
- We offer both short-term and long-term disability insurance to replace a portion of your income if you become disabled and cannot work for a period of time.
Career Mobility:
Helping our employees develop their skills and grow their careers is critical to how we retain our talent and sustain our business. We do this by offering our teammates a variety of leadership-supported programs and learning and development resources for every stage of their professional development. We know that our employees are our most valuable resource – they’re how we grow our business and care for our community.
Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Vet/Disability Assistive technologies are available. Application assistance for those requesting reasonable accommodation to the career site is available by contacting HR at (207) 861-3440 .
