Behavioral Health Tech

Mental Health Tech

Pay Rate: $16.11 - $20.00 Hourly

Work Type: PRN

Shift: Days

Department: UPC Inpatient/Geriatrics

Category: Behavioral and Mental Health

Facility: Lomas Campus

Receive 17 Weekday Nights 26 Weekend Nights and 15 Weekend Day shift differentials

Compensation Disclaimer: Compensation for this role is based on a number of factors including but not limited to experience education and other business and organizational considerations.

Position Summary: Provide child adolescent or adult patient care in a treatment or educational milieu assist in the maintenance of a safe secure environment that enhances treatment and/or educational effectiveness. May operate in an in-patient/residential environment or in outreach environment such as in homes schools and/or community agencies. Ensure adherence to Hospitals and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignment may include neonate pediatric adolescent adult and geriatric age groups.

Detailed Responsibilities:

• Patient Care: Provide care to patient in a manner that considers and promotes safety comfort and the therapeutic environment
• Education: Provide education and training specific to individual patient needs abilities learning preferences and readiness provide educational resources to patients and/or family members in coordination with treatment team
• Charting: Chart observations and other required documentation on assigned patients behaviors following prescribed procedures and standards chart according to treatment plan use electronic medical record when required
• Physical Needs: Assist with the physical needs of patients may include taking manual vital signs weights and urine stool and sputum specimens as designated
• Patient Care: Assist patients with activities of daily living attend to patient behavioral problems and provide assistance and coordination in crisis intervention as needed
• Patient Treatment: Participate in the development coordination and implementation of patient treatment programs
• Confidentiality: Maintain confidentiality of patient records adhering to HIPAA guidelines
• Liaison: In collaboration with treatment team may act as liaison with other departments staff and patients
• Transport: Transport patients to and from appointments clinics laboratories and/or treatments
• Activities: Work with other multi-disciplinary team members to lead milieu activities such as activities of daily living current events goals and fitness groups community meetings school and/or recreational activities as appropriate
• Meetings: Attend and participate in group sessions in-service education and staff meetings
• Registration: Process patient admission and registration as appropriate
• Computer: Demonstrate proficiency in utilizing and accessing appropriate computer and information system
• Phlebotomy: May perform phlebotomy duties as assigned
• Crisis Response Team: Participate as a member of the Crisis Response Team responding to calls related to psychiatric services or assessed as a psychiatric crisis assist staff with patients in crisis assist with transports of psychiatric patients
• Safety: Assist patients to regain behavior control escort patients to safe area using least restrictive means possible apply restraints as needed assist with administration of emergency medications and daily living activities
• Other Duties: Perform other duties as assigned or requested
• Policies: Follow and maintain established departmental policies and procedures objectives and quality assurance program safety environmental and infection control standards
• Development: Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs reading current literature attending in-services meetings and workshops
• Patient Safety 1: Follow patient safety-related policies procedures and protocols
• Patient Safety 2: Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes
• Patient Safety 3: Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
• Patient Safety 4: Report potential or actual patient safety concerns medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner
• Patient Safety 5: Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"

Qualifications:

Related Education and Experience may be substituted for one another on a year for year basis.

Education:

Essential:

• High School or GED Equivalent
• UNMH Mental Health Tech w/in 6 Months

Experience:

Essential: 1/2 year (6 months) directly related experience

Nonessential: Bilingual English Spanish Keres Tewa Tiwa Towa Zuni or Navajo

Credentials:

Essential:

• CPR for Healthcare/BLS Prov or Prof Rescuers w/in 30 days
• Obtain and maintain Aggressive Behav Cer w/in 30 days of hire

Physical Conditions: Heavy Work: Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects or people. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Medium Work.

Working Conditions:

Essential:

• Sig Haz: Physical risk/injuries due to combative patients
• Sig Hazard: Chemicals Bio Hazardous Materials req PPE
• Limited access to med room. Med Admin Policy Att A
• Tuberculosis testing is completed upon hire and additionally as required