Full-Time
Mental Health Technician
Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Hospital
No salary listed
DeSoto, TX, USA
In Person
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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Required Skills
CPR
Requirements
- A high school diploma or equivalent is required.
- Current CPR and MANDT certification or training is required; training is provided by the employer.
- At least 2 years of clinical experience is required, including experience in behavioral healthcare, phone triage, telehealth, case management, or a combination of education and experience.
- The employee must successfully pass a background check, drug screen, and physical examination and provide positive employment references.
- The employee must be able to stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, stand for sustained periods, walk, pull, lift, raise, and move objects weighing up to 50 pounds.
- The employee must be able to grasp with the fingers; distinguish sizes, shapes, temperatures, and textures; communicate orally, potentially loudly, accurately, or quickly; visually detect, determine, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, observe, inspect, and assess; perceive sounds with or without correction; and perform repetitive wrist, hand, or finger motions.
Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality care to patients hospitalized with psychiatric or emotional disorders on the Senior Adult and Adolescent units.
- Support the hospital's program philosophy of care and maintain a therapeutic milieu for patients.
- Communicate consistently with nursing staff and participate in patients' plans of care.
- Help identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths during treatment planning and suggest treatment-plan modifications based on observations of patient behavior.
- Provide input during shift reports and discharge planning.
- Implement patients' treatment plans by monitoring progress and communicating behavioral information to the treatment team.
- Maintain communication with patients, family members, and referral sources in patients' interests.
- Co-facilitate didactic, educational, and community groups within the adolescent treatment program and encourage patient participation in therapeutic activities.
- Supervise patients to ensure their safety and participation in treatment and during transport.
- Enforce the unit's level system or other behavior-management methods.
- Maintain patient, program, department, and related documentation.
- Orient new patients to the unit, program, and therapeutic milieu.
- Carry out general nursing assistance as assigned and supervised by the nurse in charge.
- Maintain a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients.
- Assist patients with activities of daily living when consistent with the treatment plan and the patient's needs, age, and developmental level.
- Carry out clerical and administrative assignments supporting patient care and department and hospital operations.
- Perform other related duties as requested.
- Uphold the organization's ethics and customer-service standards.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in a freestanding psychiatric hospital is preferred.
- A Registered Behavioral Technician or Certified Nursing Assistant certification is preferred.