Mental Health Technician

• Assists the nurse and treatment team in providing a safe and supportive environment which promotes patient rehabilitation
• Participates in nursing shift report for full update on status of patients
• Responds to medical and psychiatric emergencies and assists in the management of behavioral emergencies utilizing nonviolent crisis interventions
• Is available for discussions with individual patients as needed
• Assists with basic nursing procedures including personal hygiene as needed (bed bath, showers, dressing, measuring intake and output etc.), vital signs, weights, observation of urine specimen collection, transporting and lifting patients, and care of psychiatric patients
• Searches new admissions, both patient and belongings, and provides patient orientation to unit and hospital with appropriate corresponding documentation and signatures
• Is available for transporting charts, mail, food trays, unit supplies, Hospital correspondence, phone coverage and unit relief
• Supervises patients on 1:1 and special precautions, and documents
• Makes hourly rounds of assigned unit, observing every patient every hour, documenting his/her location on hourly rounds record form, utilizing required procedure. Accounts for and documents presence of all patients on unit every hour
• Drives and/or escorts patients off grounds to appointments, meetings, etc., as needed

Schedule

• All shifts available
• Includes every other weekend