Mental Health Tech

Where You’ll Work

Dignity Health Woodland Memorial Hospital is Yolo County’s largest health care provider, serving the community since 1905. Woodland Memorial Hospital is a 108-bed acute care facility offering the most comprehensive range of health care services in Yolo County, including inpatient and outpatient surgical services, family birth center/labor and delivery, emergency services, home health services, palliative care, inpatient mental health services, sleep disorders center and cancer care services. With strong ties to our community, we believe in providing compassionate, high-quality health care to you and your family, close to home. Woodland Memorial Hospital is part of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems with a 22-state network. For more information, please visit our website here at www.dignityhealth.org/woodland.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Mental Health Tech, you will be a vital part of our psychiatric acute-adult healthcare team, providing essential patient care support under the guidance of a Registered Nurse.

Every day you will monitor patient well-being through frequent observations, meticulously record vital signs and patient activities, and assist nurses with group therapy sessions and activities of daily living.

To be successful in this role, you must maintain accuracy, prioritize tasks, and treat all colleagues, patients, and families with the utmost dignity and respect, embodying our commitment to patient confidentiality and ethical healthcare practice.

• Assist with patient/family care needs from admission to discharge.
• Monitor patient on Q15 min. observations including (Q5, LOS, and 1:1 obs.)
• Accurately monitor and record patient VS and intake and output and daily activities.
• Assist Nurses with patient care to include Groups, Activities of daily living, as needed.
• Must be able to effectively communicate with patients in crisis situations.
• Assist in maintaining adequate stocks and supplies items.

Job Requirements

Required

• High School Graduate.
• Certified nursing assistant, home health aide, nursing assistant, or direct patient care experience required, along with two (2) years of behavioral health experience.
• Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association.