ShareSTAFF HealthCARE Hiring for BHA-Behavioral Health Assistant at Columbia, SC Full Time

*Child, Adolescent and Family Clinic*

Behavioral Health Assistant-BHA

BHA Pay: $19 Hr.

Schedule: 7a-7:30p OR 7p-7:30a

• Overtime Available
• 36-40 Hours a week
• Weekly Pay
• Medical, Dental, Vision & Sick Pay

With our Agency’s mission to support the recovery of people with mental illnesses, we provide a complete array of medical and support services for children, adults, and families throughout South Carolina.

You will be under the supervision of the Nurse Manager III. You will provide direct patient care and assist in planning, coordinating, assigning and evaluating nursing care in a designated area/lodge.

BHA Scope of Work:

Helps patients by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs, providing comfort, transportation, and vital sign monitoring.

BHA Examples of Work:

• Provides patients’ personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths.
• Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
• Provides adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, nonsterile dressings, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz and therapeutic baths, applying restraints.
• Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information.
• Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients’ call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor.

BHA Special Requirements:

• Must have South Carolina Nurse Aide Certification

BHA Minimum and Additional Requirement’s:

• BHA State Requirement: Graduation from an accredited school of nursing and related nursing experience. Must be licensed by the South Carolina State Board of Nursing.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $19.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Psychiatry

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Holidays
• Night shift
• Overnight shift
• Overtime
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

• Signing bonus

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Required)

Experience:

• Behavioral Health: 2 years (Required)
• Psychiatric: 1 year (Required)
• BHA: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: One location