CNA​/Behavioral Health Safety Attendant Time, Nights

Job Description

Be a part of a world‑class academic healthcare system at UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital as a CNA/ Behavioral Health Safety Attendant in the Behavioral Health department. Here, you will prepare patients and assist with meals while providing direct patient care necessary to meet the personal, physical, and comfort needs of the patient. This position is a 100% onsite opportunity. You will need to be based in the greater Chicagoland area.

With the leadership of the manager and the clinical supervisor, you will perform assigned supportive work in connection with the delivery of patient care, including functional tasks and skills. You will utilize interactive processes that will exceed the expectation of patients, physicians, families, or significant others, providing high‑quality, cost‑effective care and treatment. You will demonstrate necessary skills and knowledge to provide care for patients according to unit specific competencies as appropriate to the age of the patients served, as delineated in the Center's Scope of Care.

• Maintains direct visual access to patient at all times to provide ongoing and continuous observation and monitoring for patients assigned
• Communicates any changes in patient’s behavior or condition to nurse immediately
• Maintains patient privacy and confidentiality at all times
• Notifies nursing office immediately when observation case has been discontinued
• Remains alert and aware of patient behavior at all times
• Ability to effectively cope in stressful situations
• Promotes the values and mission of Ingalls Memorial Hospital
• Acts as a patient/family advocate with a focus on Behavioral Health
• Provides comfort measures and assistance to patient and family
• Performs hourly rounds on patients and meets needs as appropriate
• Demonstrates the necessary skills and knowledge to provide care for patients according to unit specific Scope of Care
• Understands Growth and Development and responds effectively to the unique needs of specific patient populations
• With the leadership of the staff nurse, follows plan of care by completing assigned tasks related to direct patient care
• Assists with admissions by setting up patient rooms, orienting patients to rooms, obtaining height, weight, temperature, pulse, respiration rate, blood pressure (in both arms when applicable), changing clothing, labeling, and storing personal care items
• Observes and follows infection control policies and procedures in accordance with infection control policy
• Works directly with patients to provide a safe, therapeutic environment

• Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
• Active BLS certification from the American Heart Association (AHA)
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Completed Medical Terminology Course
• Past or current experience in an acute care hospital setting
• CPI certification required within 60 days of hire
• De‑escalation training or experience preferred

• Job Type/FTE:
  Full‑Time (0.9 FTE)
• Shift: Nights, 12‑hour shifts
• Work Location:
  
  Onsite
• Unit/Department:
  Behavioral Health
• CBA Code: SEIU

For nearly a century Ingalls Memorial has pioneered sophisticated clinical care and developed the area's most convenient network of comprehensive outpatient centers, all dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of the community. Now, partnered with UChicago Medicine, we have expanded our network of expert physicians, convenient facilities and scope of service to speed your healing process and help navigate your path to wellness.

A skilled Medical Staff and talented employees dedicated to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of illness and injury provide a firm foundation for our reputation for quality. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward.

If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial is for you. Here at Ingalls, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us!

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