Behavioral Health Tech

Responsibilities

• Provide specific care under the direction of licensed behavioral health personnel and ensure that activities of daily living are provided including hygiene, mobility, and feeding.
• Provide crisis intervention, didactic, and activity groups for patients.
• Demonstrate basic knowledge of psychiatric medications.
• Demonstrate the ability to handle disruptions in the milieu without injury to patients or staff by applying effective therapeutic interventions.
• Collaborate in the development, implementation, monitoring, review, and revision of treatment plans and treatment goals.
• Monitor patients taking medication.
• Perform patient care: Accucheck, vital signs, height & weight, Intake & Output procedures, and any specimen collection.
• Absist with food delivery and tray pick-up.
• Absist patients with meals.
• Monitor intake.
• Process patient admissions and transfers from other units.
• Complete appropriate procedures of belongings and clothing inventory, contraband checks, and medications.
• Assemble chart and initiate observation checklist.
• Complete daily routine: morning vital signs, shift report, assignments and assignment sheet, patient and Family Education forms, and chart checks.
• Complete nightly routine: Lights out, chart stuffing/filing, chart audits, discharge summary, Follow discharge process: retrieve items from the safe, disposition of belongings, chart broken down.
• Complete discharge documentation including Inventory form and patient satisfaction survey.
• Maintain orderliness of environment of care.
• Maintain temperature, lighting, and noise control.
• Maintain orderly storage of equipment, return all equipment used, label and report any malfunctioning equipment.
• Maintain licensing regulations and policy requirements for treatment of clients, treatment plans, crisis management, and ethical behavior.
• Maintain established departmental policies and procedures, safety, environmental, and infection control standards.
• Complete work in accordance to specific standards with minimal supervision.
• Follow patient safety procedures including patient identification, observation, and crisis management.
• Perform all duties in a safe manner with respect to the safety of self and others.
• Operate a multiple-line telephone.
• Utilize voice messaging appropriately.
• Relay information pertaining to patient care within scope of practice in a timely manner to other team members.

Qualifications

• Minimum Requirements: Education - High School Diploma or General Education Diploma (G.E.D.), Experience - Six weeks of Behavioral Health work experience, Licensure/Certifications - BLS, Current CPR, CPI (or equivalent).
• Preferred Requirements: Education - Associates or Bachelors Degree in behavioral health related field, Experience - Two years of Behavioral Health experience on an acute, inpatient psychiatric unit providing direct care to patients.