Mental Health Technician
About the role
HCA Healthcare Live Oak Mental Health and Wellness is dedicated to investing in its team members. The organization has committed up to $300 million in programs to support its team over three years.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrates expertise in mental health promotion and comprehensive patient care
- Displays respect for patients' integrity, information, and rights
- Performs tasks necessary to maintain a therapeutic milieu and optimal patient care
- Escorts patients to and from scheduled activities in a safe and professional manner
- Monitors vital signs accurately and completes assigned tasks
- Maintains cleanliness of the unit
- Maintains high interpersonal relationships with program staff
- Utilizes appropriate telephone etiquette when answering the telephone and passing along messages
- Maintains support services vital to effective program operation
- Maintains unit filing and paperwork system, if assigned
- Assists with patients' activities of daily living
- Maintains a safe environment
- Documents observations and baseline measurements in the medical record
Qualifications
- Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
Benefits
HCA Healthcare Live Oak Mental Health and Wellness offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine services. Wellbeing support includes free counseling and referral services, time away from work programs, and savings and retirement resources such as a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service).
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Company Information
HCA Healthcare Live Oak Mental Health and Wellness provides inpatient stabilization treatment for patients with acute psychiatric symptoms. The center treats common disorders such as major depressive disorder, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, adjustment disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, impulse control disorder, and various co-morbid personality disorders. Services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the facility can implement rapid lifesaving interventions. Psychiatrists are involved in the direction and management of the treatment program, and round-the-clock skilled nursing care is provided.
Company Recognition
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, the company spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
Company Culture
HCA Healthcare is described as a family of 270,000 dedicated professionals. The company values its team members and emphasizes the importance of having "good people beget good people."
Equal Opportunity Employer
HCA Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.