Mental Health Tech

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Corbin (KY); On-site; USD 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Drug-free workplace

Job summary

Baptist Health's Corbin, KY campus is hiring a Mental Health Tech on PRN, 1st shift for the Adult Psychiatric I unit (22 beds). You will support patient care, assist with activities of daily living, monitor vitals, and collaborate with the nursing team.

Under RN/LPN supervision, you will help with group activities, documentation, and basic care tasks to promote safety, dignity, and recovery.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED required.
• BLS certification within 30 days of hire.
• CNA Patient Deterioration Training within 30 days of hire.
• Aegis Training within designated post-hire timeframe.

Responsibilities

• Assist patients with activities of daily living and mobility.
• Monitor and document vital signs, intake/output, and patient condition changes.
• Provide compassionate care, respect patient dignity, and support families.
• Communicate with nurses and team to ensure continuity of care.
• Assist with restorative activities, ambulation, ROM, and use of assistive devices.
• Maintain records, coordinate services, and manage unit supplies.
• Participate in training, team meetings, and quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Healthcare experience

Compassionate care

Customer service

Education

High School diploma or GED

Job description

Summary Job Description

Mental Health Tech (Hospital) PRN, 1st Shift BHCOR-Cor Trillium Center I Corbin, KY The Adult Psychiatric I unit is licensed for 22 acute psychiatric beds for patients with a primary psychiatric diagnosis. The Adult Psychiatric I unit specializes in adult care of patients 18 years old and older and an interdisciplinary treatment team approach is utilized in caring for patients. The Mental Health Tech performs clerical and receptionist duties for the nursing unit under the supervision of a registered nurse. The Mental Health Technician also assists with basic patient care duties and demonstrates awareness of the psychosocial aspects involved in patient care. Under direction of the RN/LPN the Mental Health Tech assists and provides group therapy sessions and activity assessments to enable patients with physical, emotional, mental, or social disabilities to acquire an appropriate social/leisure lifestyle, promote independent functioning and enhancing optimal health and wellbeing.

Description

Assist patients with activities of daily living, including bathing, dressing, feeding, toileting, repositioning, and mobility. Monitor and document vital signs, weights, intake/output, and changes in patient condition. Provide compassionate care, promote patient dignity, and support patients and families, including end-of-life care. Communicate effectively with nurses, patients, families, and team members to ensure continuity of care. Assist with restorative care activities, ambulation, range-of-motion exercises, and use of assistive devices. Maintain accurate records, perform clerical duties, coordinate patient services, and manage unit supplies. Follow all safety, infection prevention, emergency preparedness, and hospital policies and procedures. Participate in required training, team meetings, and quality improvement initiatives. Provide excellent customer service and contribute to a positive, collaborative team environment.

Requirements

• High School diploma or GED required, plus either one year of healthcare-related experience or completion of at least 30 college credit hours.
• BLS certification required within 30 days of hire.
• CNA Patient Deterioration Training required within 30 days of hire.
• Aegis Training required within designated post-hire timeframe.

Benefits

• Preventive Plan Retirement Plans Flimp Decisions - Flimp Decisions will help you pick the best value plan option given your expected medical needs. The proprietary algorithm provides a personalized financial analysis and recommendation, considering both premium and expected out-of-pocket cost (copays, etc.), as well as other important plan features.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410‑bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40‑bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet or Pathway to Excellence designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately862 physicians and958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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