Mental Health Technician

• FULL TIME AVAILABILITIES IN BOTH THE NURSING DEPARTMENT (MILITARY & CIVILIAN) AND ADMISSIONS/INTAKE DEPARTMENTS; DAY AND NIGHT SHIFTS!!!

• Participate in treatment planning by helping identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths; suggesting modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior.

• Provides input during shift report and discharge planning.

• Participate in implementing patients' treatment plans by monitoring patients' progress, communicating information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team.

• Maintains communication with patient, family members, and referral sources in patients' interest.

• Co-facilitates didactic, educational, and community groups within the context of the adolescent treatment program encouraging and facilitating patients' participation in therapeutic activities.

• Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment and during transport.

• Participate in maintaining the therapeutic milieu on the unit, enforces the level system or other methods of behavior management.

• Maintain patient, program, department, and related documentation.

• Orient new patients to unit, program and milieu.

• Carry out general nursing assistance as assigned and supervised by nurse in charge.

• Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients.

• Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and developmental level.

• Carry out clerical/administrative assignment to support patient care and department and hospital operations.

• Participates in activities which enhance professional growth and development.

• Upholds the Organization's ethics and customer service standards.

Requirements

• High school, GED, or equivalent preferred.

• Experience in healthcare environment preferred.

• CNA license a plus.

• Must obtain and maintain approved CPR certification as well as successful completion of Management of Assaultive Behavior training including restraint and seclusion policies prior to assuming patient care responsibility.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Healthcare Spending Account
• Dependent Care Spending Account
• PTO Plan with Holiday Premium Pay
• Life Insurance (Supplemental Life, Term, and Universal plans are also available.)
• Short and Long-Term Disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)