TECH - MH​/BH; DEGREE

Responsibilities

Serves as an active member of the clinical staff; maintains a therapeutic relationship with all patients; assists in maintenance of a safe, clean, therapeutic environment; assures patient participation in program activities; and performs technical/patient care duties related to patient health and safety.

Academic and experience requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Sociology, or Human Services required. A minimum of 1 year of experience with psychiatric or addiction patients preferred.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write documentation of patient behavior, document clinical records that include Q15 quality checks, and routine reports and correspondence. The employee must be able to speak effectively to acute mental health and addiction patients, their family members, physicians and other treatment staff before groups of people or organization employees, and individually.

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or illustrative form. Ability to deal with problems involving acute mental health patients and to verbally de-escalate patients, remaining calm in stressful situations when necessary. Discern when a situation within the unit is becoming escalated with a patient or patients and communicate these concerns to other treatment staff members.

Obtain vital signs, administer oxygen, administer UDS test, administer UCG test, and perform ECG testing only when specifically trained. Assist in all patient's activities of daily living.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand for long periods of time, walk, and occasionally sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must be able to assist with physically restraining a patient when necessary.

Exposure to second‑hand smoke during smoke break time with patients and exposure to weather conditions (including heat outdoors while monitoring patients who are participating in break time in designated courtyards) may occur. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.