Mental Health Technician

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Eagleville Hospital, located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, is a private non-profit organization dedicated to the treatment, education, and prevention of substance abuse, co-occurring disorders, and acute psychiatric disorders. The hospital serves as a regional resource for the treatment and prevention of alcohol and drug abuse, as well as a national resource for training and research for addiction and related conditions. The hospital also houses an older adult unit and a 16-bed acute psychiatric unit.

Eagleville Hospital is currently hiring Mental Health Techs for all shifts.

• Assists the nurse and treatment team in providing a safe and supportive environment which promotes patient rehabilitation
• Participates in nursing shift report for full update on status of patients
• Responds to medical and psychiatric emergencies and assists in the management of behavioral emergencies utilizing nonviolent crisis interventions
• Is available for discussions with individual patients as needed
• Assists with basic nursing procedures including personal hygiene as needed (bed bath, showers, dressing, measuring intake and output etc.), vital signs, weights, observation of urine specimen collection, transporting and lifting patients, and care of psychiatric patients
• Searches new admissions, both patient and belongings, and provides patient orientation to unit and hospital with appropriate corresponding documentation and signatures
• Is available for transporting charts, mail, food trays, unit supplies, Hospital correspondence, phone coverage and unit relief
• Supervises patients on 1:1 and special precautions, and documents
• Makes hourly rounds of assigned unit, observing every patient every hour, documenting his/her location on hourly rounds record form, utilizing required procedure. Accounts for and documents presence of all patients on unit every hour
• Drives and/or escorts patients off grounds to appointments, meetings, etc., as needed
• These positions would include every other weekend.

Eagleville Hospital is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)

• Entry level

• Full-time

• Health Care Provider

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