Certified Nursing Assistant - Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health

Are you interested in looking for an opportunity to further your experience in the behavior health field? Are you looking for a supportive environment that offers you the ability to make a significant impact on people’s lives?

Being a Certified Nursing Assistant at Devereux has its Advantages
You will work with other dedicated professionals who share your passion for helping individuals in need. We offer:

• Available Shifts: 6:30am-3pm or 2:30pm - 11pm 
• Best available, highest quality, low-cost benefit options – learn more at benefits.devereux.org.
• On-going training opportunities - internal training in the behavioral health-care field (Safe and Positive Approaches and New Directions), and additional job-related trainings and conferences.
• Performance evaluations with ongoing coaching conversations.
• A collaborative team environment.
• National non-profit employer that offers a strong support system and is forward-thinking in their clinical practice and research.

As a CNA you will work as part of a healthcare team to provide quality nursing care to individuals served. Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health has deep roots in the field supporting individuals with behavioral and mental health challenges, and offers excellent opportunities for field and professional training and experience to its employees. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Assist our Nursing staff with various tasks such as checking vital signs, collecting specimen, escorting individuals to their units, administrative tasks, maintaining records, and providing treatment under the direction of a Registered Nurse.
• Assist with training new CNAs, in addition to crisis intervention (deescalating and restraining as needed).
• Communicates effectively and tactfully with individuals served, visitors, families, peers, supervisors, and medical personnel.
• Knowledgeable of individualized care plans and provides support according to the individual's care plan.

Keywords: Certified Nurse Assistant, Nurse Assistant, Nursing Assistant, Mental Health, Caregiver, Nurses Aide, CNA, NA, MH

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Education: High school diploma or equivalent, graduate of an approved CNA program, and valid certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant in GA.

Experience: Minimum of one year experience as a certified nursing assistant is preferred. 

Other qualifications:

• Valid Driver's License and Satisfactory Drug Screen and Background Check results.
• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong technical skills and comfortable utilizing in-house computer applications for documenting and reporting purposes.
• Must be able to complete a two-week, paid new hire orientation class; hours are approximately 8:30am to 5:30pm daily (lunch is included). 

The IDEAL candidate will... Be empathetic, a team player, energetic, creative, understand the theories of behavior management and positive reinforcement, and represent yourself as a positive role model; have a strong passion for working with and helping children and adolescents with behavioral differences.

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.