Role OverviewThe Avera Behavioral Health Senior Unit is a 20 bed unit that provides a welcoming, calming and healing environment to our patients as well as their families. The Senior unit’s environment is an active and challenging care environment that requires critical thinking and at the same time values autonomous professional nursing practice.
What You Will Do
Provides safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information into the computer system, passing meal trays, feeding and attending to other care needs.
Why It Might Be a Fit
You will enjoy this Behavioral Health setting if you are someone that enjoys working with older adults with all different levels of functioning as well as their families, has a passion helping patients with conditions such as Dementia, Depression, Catatonia, Anxiety Disorders, Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, and possesses motivation to help create and deliver high-quality patient care in an energizing team environment.
Requirements
- Must be the age of 18 years or older for PCTs at Behavioral Health
- High School or GED Equivalent High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) - Licensing Board
- Minimum Age Requirements 16
Benefits
- PTO available day 1 for eligible hires
- Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement
- Career development guided by hands-on training and mentorship
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