Psychiatric Technician
1 week ago
Job Description
Responsibilities/ Job Duties:
- Monitors child and adolescent patients' daily functioning and assists in mental health symptom management
- Ensures safety of patients and staff during programming by constantly monitoring the milieu for potential safety risks and reports issues appropriately.
- Effectively uses therapeutic approaches to manage milieus with a focus on reducing the use of restraint and seclusion when possible
- Completes documentation in a timely manner
- Plans and facilitates psychoeducational groups with patients when scheduled during shift
- Responsible for creating a therapeutic and healing environment providing the best patient experience and care
- Maintains current competency in child/adolescent psychiatric/mental health nursing including the safe use of restraints and seclusion and effective de-escalation of patients using collaborative problem solving, therapeutic self, relationship-based care, and trauma informed practice
- Maintains confidentiality in matters related to patients and families
- Knowledgeable of and performs safe infection control practices including good hand hygiene, standard precautions, cleaning equipment and the environment.
- Monitors and helps to ensure tidiness and cleanliness in the patient care areas.
- Sanitizes program utensils, toys and other containers/materials as needed
- Provides care in a non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to the patient's developmental age and to the patient's and family's diversity, preserving their autonomy, dignity and rights.
- Oriented and educated in gender, cultural differences, and in age appropriate care for the assigned area
- Monitors own level of expertise continuously using ongoing self-assessments.
- Collaborates with team, seeks timely advice and give and always accepts feedback to ensure safe patient care
- Depending on the assigned area, may work under the direct supervision of the RN and performs tasks delegated by the RN
Minimum Education and Experience Qualification Requirements:
- High school graduate required, Bachelor's degree preferred
- Knowledge of mental health and behavioral sciences and/or by equivalent study and/or experience required
- 6 months experience in a mental health setting with pediatric population preferred
Schedule/ Shift:
- 8 scheduled shift in 2 week pay period
- 7am-3:30pm and 3:30pm-11pm will rotate in these scheduled shifts
- Weekend rotation (one weekend day shift/ month and one weekend evening shift / month)
- Holiday Rotation
Benefits:
- Paid Sick Leave (Medix provides paid sick leave according to state and local sick leave ordinances)
- Health Benefits / Dental / Vision ( Medix Offers 6 different health plans: 3 Major Medical Plans, 2 Fixed Indemnity Plans (Standard and Preferred), and 1 Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) Plan. Eligibility for health benefits is based on verifying that an average of 30 hours per week during the first 4 weeks of the work assignment has been met. If you meet eligibility requirements and take action to enroll, you will be covered no earlier than 60 days into your assignment, depending on plan selection(s).)
- 401k (eligible on the first 401k open enrollment date following 6 consecutive months on assignment. 401k Open Enrollment dates are 1/1, 4/1, 7/1, and 10/1)
- Short Term Disability Insurance
- Term Life Insurance Plan
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