Mental Health Tech

Insight Hospital and Medical Center; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision & dental benefits

Short and long-term disability insurance

Basic life insurance

Job summary

A healthcare facility in Chicago is seeking dedicated individuals to provide compassionate patient care. Responsibilities include assisting with daily activities, charting observations, and participating in treatment program development. Candidates should possess a high school diploma or GED, with related experience preferred. This role promotes a supportive environment for mentally and emotionally challenged patients, and the facility values diversity in the workplace.

Qualifications

• At least 6 months of experience related to the duties specified.
• Completed degrees may substitute experience on a year-for-year basis.

Responsibilities

• Provide care to patients ensuring safety and comfort.
• Assist patients with daily living activities.
• Chart patient observations according to standards.
• Participate in patient treatment program development.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient records and safety guidelines.
• Transports patients to appointments, clinics, and treatments as needed.
• Attends and participates in group sessions, in-service education, and staff meetings.
• Maintains institutional policies and participates in safety and infection control standards.

Skills

Crisis intervention techniques

Team collaboration

Infection control standards

Patient care preparation

Communication skills

Education

High school diploma or GED

Advanced degree substitution allowed

Job description

AtINSIGHT, we believe there is a better way to provide quality healthcare. With a growing team that is dedicated to delivering world-class service to everyone we meet, it is our mission to be the most innovative, ethical, and insightful clinical biomedical technology institution in the world. As we continue to develop and grow in the fields of neuroscience, medicine, and ethics, our mission is guided by the highest levels of leadership development through (E6 I3): Energy, Energizing, Edge, Ethics, Expertise, Execution, Innovation, Insight, Incubation.

AtInsight Hospital & Medical Center, we are partnering with the community to build this historical institution into a model healthcare organization providing PATIENT CARE SECOND TO NONE!

Responsibilities

• Provides care to patients in a manner that promotes safety, comfort, and the therapeutic environment
• Assists patients with activities of daily living; attends to patient behavioral problems and provides assistance in crisis intervention, as needed
• Works with other members of a multi-disciplinary team in leading milieu activities such as current events groups, community meetings, goals groups, fitness groups, activities of daily living groups, and/or recreational activities, as appropriate to the specified patient population
• Charts patient observations, following prescribed procedures and standards.
• Participates in the development and implementation of patient treatment programs.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient records.
• Transport patients to and from appointments, clinics, laboratories, and/or treatments, as and when appropriate.
• May perform initial patient evaluations to determine treatment priorities; may take vital signs, weights, and urine, stool, and sputum specimens.
• Attends and participates in group sessions, in-service education, and staff meetings.
• Maintains established institutional policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, and safety, environmental and infection control standards.
• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, in service meetings and workshops.
• May provide liaison with patients, families of patients, or external facilities and agencies.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
• High school diploma or GED; at least 6 months of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified.
• Completed degree(s) from an accredited institution that are above the minimum education requirement may be substituted for experience on a year for year basis

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Knowledge of crisis intervention techniques.
• Ability to interact with students, faculty and/or staff in a team environment.
• Ability to maintain quality, safety, and/or infection control standards.
• Knowledge of accreditation and certification requirements and standards.
• Ability to observe, assess, and record symptoms, reactions, and progress.
• Ability to provide therapeutic patient care to mentally, emotionally and/or developmentally disabled individuals.
• Ability to understand and follow safety procedures.
• Ability to assess and provide for the day-to-day needs of mentally, emotionally and/or developmentally disabled patients.
• Ability to safely lift, and physically manipulate patients.
• Skill in preparing and maintaining patient records.
• Knowledge of patient care charts and patient histories.
• Ability to communicate and interact with mental health professionals in a team environment.
• Ability to make administrative and procedural decisions and judgments on sensitive, confidential issues.
• Health, vision & dental benefits - eligible at 30 days, following the 1st of the following month.
• Short and long-term disability and basic life insurance - after 30 days of employment.

Insight Employees are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19 as a condition of employment, subject to accommodation for medical or sincerely held religious beliefs.

Insight is an equal opportunity employer and values workplace diversity!