Mental Health Technician bei Desert Parkway Behavioral Healthcare Hospital

Description

The Mental Health Technician provides direct patient care to patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, supports a therapeutic setting and ensures the safety and well-being of patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Helps identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths;
• Communicates information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team;
• Encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities;
• Orients new patients to facility, program, and setting. 
• Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and functioning level;
• Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients;
• Enforces the CPI system or other methods of behavior management;
• Maintains patient, program, department, and related documentation.  Carries out clerical and administrative assignment to support patient care, program, and organization operations.

Schedule is Saturday, Sunday, Monday from 7:00am - 7:30pm

Requirements

• High school or equivalent required
• Previous experience with therapeutic limit-setting helpful
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries

Benefits

A benefits package is available the first of the month following just one month of employment!

Desert Parkway offers competitive benefits to include:

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Healthcare spending account
• Dependent care spending account
• PTO Plan with holiday premium pay
• Discounted cafeteria meal plan
• Life insurance (including plans for spouse and children)
• Short- and long-term disability
• Pet Insurance
• Identity Theft Insurance