Mental Health Technician (Full Time and Part Time) - Nursing
The Mental Health Technician provides direct patient care to patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, supports a therapeutic setting and ensures the safety and well-being of patients.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assists in identifying patients' problems, needs, and strengths
- Suggests modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior
- Provides input into discharge planning
- Monitors patients' progress
- Communicates information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team
- Encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities
- Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment.
- Orients new patients to facility, program, and setting
- Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and functioning level
- Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients
- Participates in maintaining the therapeutic setting on the unit, enforces the CPI system or other methods of behavior management
- Carries out clerical and administrative assignment to support patient care, program, and organization operations
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED required
- Experience with therapeutic limit-setting helpful and/or an understanding of behavior management modalities helpful
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries
Benefits
A full benefits package is available the first of the month following just one (1) month of employment!
Desert Parkway offers competitive benefits to include:
- Medical insurance (full time employees)
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401K Retirement Plan
- Healthcare spending account
- Dependent care spending account
- PTO Plan with holiday premium pay
- Discounted cafeteria meal plan
- Life insurance (including plans for spouse and children)
- Short- and long-term disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)
- Pet Insurance
- Identity Theft Insurance