Our Client, a Behavioral Health company, is looking for a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) for their Portsmouth, VA location. Responsibilities: + Ensures the wellbeing of clients and provides a safe, positive, supportive, and structured environment. + Maintains a constant awareness and supervision of clients. + Conducts safety checks, ensuring that supervision is conducted at intervals in accordance with individualized supervision guidelines. + Checks clients for contraband and manages the client’s valuables and belongings. + Interacts routinely with clients, observes behaviors and communicates significant observations to supervisor. + Promotes interest in recreational activities. + Engages with client in activities and interactions designed to encourage achievement of treatment goals. + Facilitates client educational-rehabilitative groups which cover a variety of topics including social skills, coping skills, anger management and independent living skills. + May take and record vital signs properly and communicates significant changes in client’s condition to the charge nurse. + Documents in client records timely, accurately, and appropriately. + Applies de-escalation techniques to help manage client’s emotions, behavior and participation in treatment. + Assists with unit cleaning, organization of new admits charts, discharge process, filing, etc. Initiates client/employee incident reports. + Provides transfer or transportation for client or coordinates transportation with appropriate staff member, as required. + Provides verbal report/briefing to the oncoming shift. + Serves as a resource for new clients introducing them to other clients and staff, explaining programs and encouraging participation. + Orients clients to the activities program, explaining the benefits of activities. + Maintains an awareness of client's needs and individual goals while motivating clients towards activities which are beneficial to them. + Observes clients’ interest levels and behaviors. + Assists with activity planning by offering new activity ideas and diverse therapeutic recreation program. + Organizes and sets up the equipment that is used in recreational activities. + Provides clients with activity resources and supplies, as needed. + Enforces safety rules to prevent injury and modifies activities to suit the needs of specific groups. + Helps to develop and maintain departmental resources, sharing the responsibility to monitor equipment and supplies. Requirements: + Certifications: CNA | CPR + 1 + years substance abuse or behavioral health experience Why Should You Apply? + Health Benefits + Referral Program + Excellent growth and advancement opportunities As an equal opportunity employer, ICONMA provides an employment environment that supports and encourages the abilities of all persons without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or express, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability status, political affiliation, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.