Behavioral Health Tech

Mental Health Tech

Pay Rate: $16.22 - $21.26 Hourly

Work Type: Full Time

Shift: Days

Department: CPC Acute Services

Category: Behavioral and Mental Health

Facility: Outpatient Clinics

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
• 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

Training/Education Specialization:

* 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 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