Behavioral Health Technician - UNC Youth Behavioral Health Facility Cardinal Unit

Description

We are pleased to announce that we are looking for Behavioral Health Technicians to join our new Inpatient Psychiatry Units at UNC Hospitals Youth Behavioral Health Facility (YBH).

Must be a Certified Nursing Assistant and must have 1 year working in a behavioral health/neurosciences unit.

• Shift: Day/Night Rotating with current need being day shift; including rotating weekends
• Hours:
  
  Full Time; 36 hrs/wk; three/12 hour shifts
• Entity: UNC Medical Center
• Location:
  
  Butner, NC

Are you passionate about caring for adolescents and children in a behavioral health environment? If so, we have opportunities available for you in the following area:

UNC Youth Behavioral Health Facility Cardinal Unit (1 YBH) is a 14-bed inpatient unit that evaluates, treats, and monitors adolescents aged 12 to 15 who need acute psychiatric stabilization. Our goal is to stabilize the current crisis, engage natural and community supports, and assist individuals in planning for further care as clinically indicated. We aim to provide competent psychiatric stabilization through various methods, including evaluation, assessment, observation, monitoring, and treatment of medical conditions;

psychotropic medication treatment; family engagement; and therapy management. Additionally, we teach patients skills to avoid future crises and reduce rapid readmissions by arranging discharge and aftercare appointments through community providers and making direct aftercare referrals to providers that need to be involved in the individual's care.

UNC Hospitals Youth Behavioral Health is a 54-bed inpatient psychiatric facility located in Butner, NC. The hospital is composed of 4 units designed to care for child and adolescent patients with a variety of common mental health diagnoses, including those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In a milieu-based, trauma-informed, therapeutic setting, patients are treated by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, including Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Therapy Services Social Workers, Nursing Services, Pharmacy, Pastoral Care, and Nutrition Services.

Safety is the key component of the care provided as well as introduction of positive coping skills, healthy living and positive leisure activities. The staff are to be cross trained on all of these units as one team.

This position qualifies for an extensive benefit package including PTO hours, which are accrued based on the number of worked hours. This position requires the ability to attend a weeklong hospital orientation in Chapel Hill, offered every two weeks in Chapel Hill, NC.

• Monday and Tuesday – In person from 8am to 4:30pm in Chapel Hill;
  Wednesday, Thursday and Friday – Virtual.

Under close supervision, responsible for providing a safe, supportive and therapeutic environment for psychiatric patients. Provides direct patient care and may conduct therapeutic group sessions under the direction and supervision of the RN. Provides input to the RN to help develop the plan of care and assists in carrying out the plan of care for assigned patients. Assists with the admission of new patients and orients new patients and families to the unit.