Mental Health Tech - PRN Days or Nights

Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Hospital; DeSoto (TX); On-site; USD 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid disability

401(k) plan

Generous paid time off

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Texas is seeking PRN Health Techs to work with children, adolescents, and adults facing psychiatric challenges. The position requires at least a high school diploma and 2+ years in a clinical role. Responsibilities include participating in treatment planning, monitoring patient progress, and maintaining a therapeutic environment. Full-time employees are eligible for medical benefits and paid time off. Adequate time management and multi-tasking skills are crucial for success.

Qualifications

• 2+ years clinical experience in behavioral healthcare or related.
• Preferred: Registered Behavioral Technician or Certified Nursing Assistant.
• Must successfully pass background check and drug screening.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality care to patients with psychiatric disorders.
• Participate in treatment planning and assist in monitoring patient progress.
• Ensure safety and therapeutic environment for patients.

Skills

Multi-tasking

Time management

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

The position will work with children, adolescents and adults

We are looking to hire PRN Health Techs (MHT) to provide high quality care to patients on our Senior Adult and Adolescent units who are hospitalized with psychiatric/emotional disorders. MHT's hired must support the hospital program philosophy of care, support and ensure a therapeutic milieu for all patients, communicate with nursing staff constantly and participate in the patient plan of care.

• Participate in treatment planning by helping identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths; suggesting modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior.
• Provides input during shift report and discharge planning.
• Participate in implementing patients' treatment plans by monitoring patients' progress, communicating information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team.
• Maintains communication with patient, family members, and referral sources in patients' interest
• Co-facilitates didactic, educational, and community groups within the context of the adolescent treatment program encouraging and facilitating patients' participation in therapeutic activities.
• Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment and during transport
• Participate in maintaining the therapeutic milieu on the unit, enforces the level system or other methods of behavior management.
• Maintain patient, program, department, and related documentation.
• Orient new patients to unit, program and milieu.
• Carry out general nursing assistance as assigned and supervised by nurse in charge.
• Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients.
• Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and developmental level.
• Carry out clerical/administrative assignment to support patient care and department and hospital operations.

• Performs related duties, as requested.
• Upholds the Organization's ethics and customer service standards.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the hospital.

Education, Licensing and Experience

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent required. CPR and MANDT are required (training required and employer provided)
• Required Licenses: None
• Preferred Licenses / Certifications: Registered Behavioral Technician or Certified Nursing Assistant.
• Experience: Minimum of 2 years clinical experience, preferably in a behavioral healthcare setting, phone triage, tele-health or case management or combination of education and experience. Experience in a free standing psychiatric hospital preferred.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
  • Must be able to multi-task, prioritize with strong time management skills.
• Screening: Must successfully pass background check, drug screen, physical and be able to provide positive employment references.
• Physical Demands: With or without reasonable accommodations, must be able to stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, stand for sustained period of time, walk, pull, lift, raise and move objects from position to position (up to 50 lbs), finger grasp; feel sizes, shapes, temperatures, and textures; express or exchange ideas orally and potentially loudly, accurately, or quickly; visually detect, determine, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, observe, inspect, assess; perceive the nature of sound with or without correction; perform repetitive motions of the wrist, hands, or fingers.

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the hospital.

Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Hospital is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, company paid disability, 401(k) and a generous amount of paid time off.