Mental Health Technician

Duties

• Establishes and maintains communication and therapeutic relationships with patients ensuring patient dignity and respecting patients’ values, operating within ethical standards and treating patients with professional demeanor in accordance with organizational standards.
• Conducts and accurately records patient observation rounds per organizational standards.
• Affords assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) including monitoring patient bathing and providing assistance as necessary.
• Affords assistance with personal laundry if necessary.
• Performs patient care tasks including taking and recording vital signs, collecting patient specimens, monitoring and documenting food and fluid intake, accompanying patients for medical testing as assigned.
• Provides educational groups and Community & Goals groups as assigned.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• All required education is a minimum requirement. Higher levels of education are acceptable.
• H.S. Diploma required.
• UAP education requirements: an Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP) training program in the last three years, or a fundamentals of nursing course, or a certified nursing assistant program with obtainment of certification (C.N.A.), or a graduate of a professional or practical nursing program who did not pass the state licensure examination in the past three years, or A graduate of a professional or practical nursing program outside the United States and awaiting licensure in this country
• In lieu of a. through e. listed above in the Education section, documented experience as a nurse assistant, emergency medical technician, or surgical technician in the past (3) years is required.
• Experience as a nurse assistant in an inpatient setting preferred.
• Basic Life Support, Non-Violent Crisis Intervention, and any other required training by the organization is required within 90 days.