Mental Health Tech

4 weeks ago


DeSoto, United States Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Hospital Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Shift Options: 7 AM- 7 PM Rotating Weekends

The position will work with children, adolescents and adults

We are looking to hire full-time Mental Health Techs (MHT) to provide high quality care to patients on our Senior Adult and Adolescent units who are hospitalized with psychiatric/ emotional disorders. MHT's hired must support the hospital program philosophy of care, support and ensure a therapeutic milieu for all patients, communicate with nursing staff constantly and participate in the patient plan of care.

  • Participate in treatment planning by helping identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths; suggesting modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior.
  • Provides input during shift report and discharge planning.
  • Participate in implementing patients' treatment plans by monitoring patients' progress, communicating information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team.
  • Maintains communication with patient, family members, and referral sources in patients' interest
  • Co-facilitates didactic, educational, and community groups within the context of the adolescent treatment program encouraging and facilitating patients' participation in therapeutic activities.
  • Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment and during transport
  • Participate in maintaining the therapeutic milieu on the unit, enforces the level system or other methods of behavior management.
  • Maintain patient, program, department, and related documentation.
  • Orient new patients to unit, program and milieu.
  • Carry out general nursing assistance as assigned and supervised by nurse in charge.
  • Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients.
  • Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and developmental level.
  • Carry out clerical/administrative assignment to support patient care and department and hospital operations.
  • Performs related duties, as requested.
  • Upholds the Organization's ethics and customer service standards.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the hospital.

Requirements

  • Education: High school diploma or equivalent required. CPR and MANDT are required (training required and employer provided)
  • Required Licenses : None
  • Preferred Licenses / Certifications; Registered Behavioral Technician or Certified Nursing Assistant.
  • Experience: Minimum of 2 years clinical experience, preferably in a behavioral healthcare setting, phone triage, tele-health or case management or combination of education and experience. Experience in a free standing psychiatric hospital preferred.
  • Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
    • Must be able to multi-task, prioritize with strong time management skills.
  • Screening: Must successfully pass background check, drug screen, physical and be able to provide positive employment references.
  • Physical Demands: With or without reasonable accommodations, must be able to stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, stand for sustained period of time, walk, pull, lift, raise and move objects from position to position (up to 50 lbs), finger grasp; feel sizes, shapes, temperatures, and textures; express or exchange ideas orally and potentially loudly, accurately, or quickly; visually detect, determine, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, observe, inspect, assess; perceive the nature of sound with or without correction; perform repetitive motions of the wrist, hands, or fingers.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the hospital.

If you are among the most competitive and qualified candidates for the job, you will be contacted directly by one of our hiring managers. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to individual inquiries regarding your application status. Good Luck & we hope to meet you soon

Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Hospital is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

Benefits

Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, company paid disability, 401(k) and a generous amount of paid time off.


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