Health Care Tech II- MHTL- Pueblo West

This position is open to current Colorado residents only.

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This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.

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About the Mental Health Transitional Living Homes
The CDHS Office of Civil and Forensic Mental Health’s Transitional Living Homes Program was created to increase bed capacity for persons in need of residential behavioral health treatment. House Bill (HB) 22-1303 has authorized new beds to be used for persons needing residential services at a less restrictive level of care and to reduce and eliminate the backlog of such persons in more restrictive settings.

HB 22-1303 directs the Department of human services (department) and the Department of health care and Policy Financing to create, develop, or contract to add at least 125 additional beds at mental health residential treatment facilities (treatment facilities) throughout the state for adults in need of ongoing supportive services. The bill also requires that the department renovate a building at the mental health hospital at Fort Logan to create at least 16 additional civil beds for such persons.

These beds serve as a step-down option from inpatient care and as a step-up when deemed medically necessary and lower-level of care settings can no longer adequately and safely provide effective care.
About the Position

This position exists to provide direct hands-on milieu management care to clients, which includes assistance with activities of daily living, documentation of the care supplied, awareness of psychosocial and physical needs/safety of clients, engagement in social and recreational activities, support in the continued development of social and life skills. These services shall be performed in a manner consistent with the standards of the profession, legal, and regulatory requirements.
This is a full-time, in-person, essential services designation position. These services are provided in a residential setting, which requires 24/7 care and treatment. As such, we are hiring for daytime, evening, and overnight shifts, including weekends. Duties in this position include:


Residential Client Care and Safety/Security:

• Responsible for providing direct client care by hands-on performance and/or assistance as needed with activities of daily living (ADL) and continued development of social and life skills through engagement in recreational and social activities.
• Provides environmental needs to all clients by arranging and adapting personal care items, such as food or clothing and/or physical environment needs to support the ongoing needs of the clients.
• May require gentle guiding and instruction for clients to engage in self-care activities as part of their continued development of activities of daily living.
• Assist clients in becoming oriented to the program, which includes a review of the program requirements, their responsibilities as clients, inventory of all personal items, etcetera.
• Responsible for the ongoing supervision of the clients in care and ensuring the needs of all clients are being met daily.
• Monitors safety needs by supervising the clients in care, their whereabouts, interactions, and conditions, and refers to the MHTL Homes team regarding potential changes that may need to be made based on observations.

Transportation:

• Responsible for transporting, when necessary, clients in care to and from appointments and/or recreational and social activities.
• Responsible for ensuring the safety of the clients by adhering to safety laws such as seatbelts and expectations while in a moving vehicle, abiding by the rules of the road, etc.
• An essential function of this role is to ensure that a schedule of outside client appointments and any recreational or social activities that require transportation is maintained, and to share and collaborate with the MHTL Homes team on this schedule.
• Ensures that trip logs are properly and timely completed.

Department Standards and Staff Development:

• Responsible for the adherence…