Mental Health Tech

Magnolia Regional Health Center; Corinth (MS); On-site; USD 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth, Mississippi seeks a Mental Health Tech to provide direct and indirect patient care in behavioral health settings. Responsibilities include preadmission assessments, administering MMSE and BPRS, monitoring safety, and supporting physicians and nursing staff in care delivery.

The role requires CPR certification, completion of Handle with Care, and knowledge of psychiatric terminology, ethics, and patient rights. High school diploma or GED is required.

Qualifications

• Prefers experience in a mental health setting but not required.
• Must understand ethics, patient rights and confidentiality.
• Capable of assisting in medical and psychiatric emergencies.
• Completed Handle with Care training.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct and indirect patient care in mental health settings.

Skills

Preadmission assessment

Mini-Mental Status

BPRS administration

AIMS test administration

Suicide assessment

Therapeutic relationships

CPR certification

15-minute checks

Psychiatric terminology

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Mental Health Tech

Magnolia Regional Health Center Corinth, Mississippi, United States

About this position

Mental Health Tech
Behavioral Health

Job Summary:
Provides direct and indirect patient care in individual patient care settings, consistent with the nursing department's standards of care. Prepares and compiles medical records. Initiates directions from physician and nursing staff.

Department Specific Competencies:
In addition to the competencies of a patient care tech, the mental health tech is also required to:

• Demonstrate the ability to take an inquiry call and perform preadmission clinical assessments.
• Demonstrate the ability to administer a Mini-MentalStatus Tool and other approved assessment tools.
• Demonstrates knowledge of professional ethics, patient rights and confidentiality.
• Demonstrates knowledge of administering the BPRS tool.
• Demonstrate the ability to assess sexual acting out behavior.
• Demonstrate the ability to administer the suicide assessment toll and interpret data.
• Must complete NETLearning on therapeutic relationships and boundaries.
• Demonstrate the ability to perform AIMS toil and interpret data.
• Understand the predominant diagnosis of patient propulsion served and most common treatment methodologies and completes the psychiatric terminology in-service.
• Demonstrate knowledge of medications to be administered, including the medication's effects, side effects and potential adverse reactions.
• Capableof assisting in medical and psychiatric emergencies according to protocol until a physician arrives.
• Currently, CPR certified
• Completed Handle with Care training.
• Performs 15-minute precaution checks as first priority.
• Monitors patients for safety and medical status and reports abnormalities to RB at once. Failure to perform 15-minute checks correctly may result in immediate termination.
• Monitors day rooms and patient rooms for safety each shift.
• Understands court commitment process.
• Performs the complete psychiatric patient registration process and obtains patient signatures according to registration standard work for behavioral health.

Education:
Highschool diploma or GED required.

Experience:
Experience in a mental health setting preferred but not required.

Language/Communication Skills:
English required. Multilingual capabilities enhance the ability to perform this job. Must have the ability to speak effectively and professionally to all staff, management, and all outside individuals at all levels from elementary to professional.

Reasoning Ability:
Must have the ability to apply non-judgmental reasoningcapabilities whenever necessary when dealing with patients, visitors, and staff. Critical thinking skills a must. Must have reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do. Must possess purposeful, self-regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextualconsiderations upon which that judgment is based.