Behavioral Health Tech

Mental Health Tech

Pay Rate: 16.22 - 21.26 Hourly

Work Type: Full Time

Shift: Days

Department: Psychiatric Emergency Services - UPC

Category: Behavioral and Mental Health

Facility: Lomas Campus

Sign On Bonus: Yes

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
• Crisis Response Team - Ensure and monitor that the Crisis Response Team is adequately staffed per shift as appropriate and 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
• Phlebotomy - May perform phlebotomy duties as assigned
• Liaison - In collaboration with treatment team may act as liaison with other hospitals law enforcement agencies and families of patients
• Training - Provides staff training in coordination with Behavioral Health Education as directed by management may include BLS CPI and/or First Aid instruction
• Patient Assistance - Coordinate lead and/or train mental health and/or other patient care staff as assigned and appropriate in the performance of day-to-day patient assistance duties
• Direction - Provide direction and coordination to staff as assigned and appropriate
• Liaison - Act as communication liaison to supervisor/charge nurse to report unit issues and provide end-of-shift report
• Order Entry - Complete order entry of lab work x-rays and/or other patient procedures as designated
• Oversee - Oversees the logistics and functioning of assigned units to assure a therapeutic milieu
• Preceptor - Act as preceptor for staff as assigned and designated by management
• Training - In collaboration with Behavioral Health Education or designated staff may develop a staff or patient training/education course or group or teach an existing/ongoing course or group as directed
• Unit Duties - Monitor completion and accuracy of charting cleaning and other unit duties as designated
• 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

Training/Education Specialization:

Essential:

* UNMH Mental Health Tech Training

Experience:

Essential:

* 1 year directly related experience

Nonessential:

No preferred experience

Credentials:

Essential:

* CPR for Healthcare/BLS Prov or Prof Rescuers w/in 30 days

* Obtain and maintain Agressive 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