Psychiatric Technician

Psychiatric Technician (Safety) Pease note: You must take and pass an examination for Psychiatric Technician (Safety) to establish list eligibility. The Department of State Hospitals - Napa is accepting applications for multiple Permanent-Full time vacancies to the Psychiatric Technician (Safety) classification. The vacancies exist in various Programs within the Hospital. Positions and shift availability are limited. Experience is preferred, but not required. For more information, please contact Fe Naguit, at (707) 253-5026. Please be certain that your application package is thorough and completely describes your work experience. SROA & Surplus Employees are encouraged to apply and will receive first consideration. Only the most qualified candidates that are reachable on the Certification List or eligible for lateral transfer will be scheduled for a hiring interview. This advertisement may be used to fill multiple vacancies and will run until the position is filled. Position will be filled based upon budget approval. Please attach a copy of your license with your application. Applications may be screened and only the most competitive will be invited for an interview. Applications may be screened and only the most competitive will be invited for an interview. Positions will be filled based upon budget approval. This advertisement may be used to fill multiple vacancies and will run until filled with the following cutoff dates: 8/31/2025, 9/30/2025,10/31/2025, 11/28/2025 and 12/28/2025. To ensure that your application will be considered for this recruitment the following items are required: You must complete the STD 678 EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION in its entirety. Include “PSYCHIATRIC TECHNICIAN (SAFETY), JC -486767” in the “JOB TITLE(S)” section of the application. Duties Performed and Supervisor’s name and Contact information must be completed on the STD 678 -Incomplete applications will not be considered. Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of information provided on the STD. 678 Possession of a valid license to practice as a Psychiatric Technician issued by the BVNPTE. To take the Psychiatric Technician (Safety) Examination go to CalCareers Job Description Custody tasks include escorting forensic clients, patients, or inmates in the facility and in the community; searching for drugs, contraband, and weapons; counting, distributing, and accounting for eating utensils to prevent their use as weapons; inspecting forensic clients', patients', or inmates' mail for hazardous contraband; inspecting facilities to identify security breaches that could lead to the escape of a forensic client, patient, or inmate; observing and intervening in forensic client, patient, or inmate behavior that may injure people, damage property, or signal impending escape attempts. Incumbents work with other disciplines as part of the treatment team to provide an overall treatment program for the forensic client, patient, or inmate. Tasks include performing nursing procedures such as administering medications, treatments including oral medications, hypodermic injections, and at developmental centers administering urinary catheterizations, enemas, and taking and charting temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and respiration; observing forensic clients', patients', or inmates' physical condition and behavior and reporting significant changes to a unit supervisor or physician and recording nursing notes in the forensic clients', patients', or inmates' record; preparing and caring for forensic clients, patients, or inmates during treatment; giving first aid as needed; and participating as a member of the multidisciplinary team with the development of treatment plans and objectives from assessment of the forensic clients, patients, or inmates. Incumbents may assist in the training of Psychiatric Technician Students, Psychiatric Technician Training Candidates, Psychiatric Technician Trainees, and other ancillary staff; help to create a clean, safe, and therapeutic environment for forensic clients, patients, or inmates; apply mental health principles in all relationships with forensic clients, patients, or inmates; develop, encourage participation in, and supervise on-the-unit group and individual program activities for forensic clients, patients, or inmates; assist rehabilitation therapists in occupational, recreational, vocational, and educational therapy programs for forensic clients, patients, or inmates; motivate forensic clients, patients, or inmates to develop self-reliance in daily living and assist them with activities of daily living such as feeding, habit training, and maintaining a well-groomed appearance; keep forensic clients, patients, or inmates and their beds, clothing, and living areas clean; follow safe work practices; protect forensic clients, patients, inmates, and others from personal injury; order supplies as needed; keep records; and participate in in-service training programs. Knowledge and Abilities Knowledge of: Custody procedures, and public and property protection policies; fundamentals of nursing care, general behavioral and psychiatric procedures, forensic client, patient, or inmate behavior and mental health principles and techniques involved in the care and treatment of individual or groups of developmentally or mentally disordered forensic clients, patients, or inmates; current first-aid methods; medical terminology; pharmacology; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Management Assaultive Behavior techniques; hospital procedures. Ability to: Learn and apply sound judgment for situations including the protection of persons and property; apply basic nursing knowledge, skills, and attitudes; establish effective therapeutic relationships with developmentally or mentally disordered forensic clients, patients, or inmates; recognize symptoms requiring medical or psychiatric attention; think and act quickly in emergencies; work with a treatment team to provide occupational, recreational, vocational, and educational therapy programs for forensic clients, patients, or inmates; follow directions; keep appropriate records; develop clear and concise reports of incidents; analyze situations accurately and take effective action. Applicants are required to pass a drug-screening test. Testing of current employees who are applicants in an examination or who are transferring is permitted only if the person does not have a current appointment to a class for which drug testing is a requirement.