Health Care Technician - MHTL- Westminster

This position is open to current Colorado residents only.

Please note:

This recruitment may be used to fill multiple vacancies.

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.

You are required to work at your assigned work location during your scheduled work times.

Please note:

Work arrangements are subject to change at any time.

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 provided, 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, which do include weekends.

• 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 the 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.
• Clients may require gentle guidance and instruction 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, an inventory of all personal items, etc.
• Responsible for the ongoing supervision of the clients in care and ensuring the needs of all clients are being met on a daily basis.
• Monitors safety needs by supervising the clients in care, their whereabouts, interactions, and conditions and refer to the MHTL Homes team regarding potential changes that may need to be made based on observation.

• Administers medications to the individuals served in accordance with the Medication Administration Record (MAR).
• Administers medications in proper doses at appropriate times to each individual.
• Records a wide range of information including: medication given (includes time and amount); clients’ responses to medications and treatments; documents refusals…