Mental Health Tech 1 - Adolescent - $2000 Sign on Bonus

About the role

The Mental Health Tech establishes a therapeutic relationship with assigned patients and helps patients with daily living. Responsible for the overall maintenance of a therapeutic environment. Works under close supervision.

Responsibilities

• Affords assistance with activities of daily living, toileting, feeding, and grooming.
• Makes beds and cleans rooms as needed.
• Takes and records patient vital signs including height, weight, blood pressure, pulse, and respirations under the supervision of a nurse.
• Aids in the admission process as directed.
• Provides assistance in group settings as necessary under the direction of a nurse or therapist.
• Affords assistance in moving patients from place to place on and off the unit or area where assigned.
• Affords assistance in laundering clothes as necessary or directed.
• Redirects patients and utilizes proper techniques to prevent patient aggression, falls, or injury.
• Retrieves medications from the pneumatic tube system and/or pharmacy and delivers them to the nurse and/or places medications in a secure location as determined by the nurse manager.
• Documents vital signs, activities of daily living, sleep hours, safety checks, and environmental checks as appropriate.
• Affords assistance in documenting group activities under the direction of a licensed professional.
• Notifies nurse, therapist, or physician of patient behaviors, needs, and safety concerns.
• Participates in treatment team processes.
• Conducts phone calls, takes messages, and delivers messages as appropriate.
• Orients patients to the program.
• Interacts with patients on a one-on-one basis in a therapeutic manner and reports relevant patient information.
• Conducts environmental safety checks and notifies the nurse of issues.
• Conducts patient safety checks as directed.
• Obtains and dispenses belongings as appropriate at admission, discharge, and throughout the stay.
• Follows organizational infection control procedures including, but not limited to handwashing and cleaning.
• Monitors patients for potential hazards.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or Equivalent.
• Crisis Intervention Training within 90 days of employment.
• AHA BLS Certification.

Special Skills

• Proficient in the English language, verbal and written communications skills, basic computer skills.

Education

Requires a High School Diploma or equivalent.

About Us

Our Lady of the Lake is uniquely capable of caring for a full range of illness or injury, including those that are extremely complex, for both pediatric and adult patients. Our family of services includes:

• An 988-bed hospital and the area’s only Level I Trauma Center.
• A freestanding Children's Hospital.
• A 545-provider care network covering more than 40 specialties.
• Two free-standing emergency rooms—Our Lady of the Lake Livingston and Our Lady of the Lake North.
• A network of nearly 15 urgent care clinics.
• Outpatient imaging and surgery centers.
• Assumption Community Hospital Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University Our Lady of the Lake Ascension, a 78-bed, community hospital providing emergency, inpatient, outpatient, and surgical services to Ascension Parish and surrounding areas.
• We serve 38,000 inpatients and 820,000 outpatients annually and are committed to building a healthy community through excellence in patient care and education.
• A part of FMOL Health, Our Lady of the Lake is consistently awarded for compassionate care, clinical expertise, leading edge technology and innovation.