Mental Health Technician

Corpus Christi Medical Center; Corpus Christi (TX); On-site; USD 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Educational assistance

Job summary

Corpus Christi Medical Center seeks a Mental Health Technician to provide direct patient care for adolescent, adult mood disorders, and geriatric patients in a safe environment that supports treatment effectiveness.

The MHT will document observations, perform 15-minute rounds, and participate in developing and implementing treatment programs, under supervision and in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Direct patient care for adolescent, adult mood disorder, and geriatric patients.
• Maintains a safe, secure environment and supports treatment.
• Document observations and participate in patient rounds and care levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide care promoting safety and comfort in the therapeutic environment.
• Assist with activities of daily living and crisis intervention as needed.
• Lead milieu activities with a multidisciplinary team and patients.

Skills

Patient care

Crisis intervention

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Record keeping

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Nonviolent Crisis Intervention

Job description

Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a Mental Health Technician with Corpus Christi Medical Center you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!

Job Summary And Qualifications

As a Mental Health Technician, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

The MHT provides direct patient care to adolescent, adult mood disorder, and Geriatric populations. The MHT provides patient supervision and assists in the maintenance of a safe, secure environment that enhances treatment effectiveness.

What you will do in this role:

• 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 aids 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, performs 15-minute patient rounds and 1:1 level of care.
• Participates in the development and implementation of patient treatment programs.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient records.
• Accompany patients to and from appointments, clinics, laboratories, and/or treatments when required.
• May perform initial patient evaluations to determine treatment priorities; may take vital signs, weights, and urine specimens.
• Attends and participates all required 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 online assigned training.
• May provide liaison with patients, families of patients, or external facilities and agencies.
• Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

What qualifications you will need:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• No Travel Required
• No experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn More About Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Corpus Christi Medical Center is a 630+ bed healthcare system of hospitals in Corpus Christi and the surrounding Coastal Bend community. Bay Area is our full-service acute care hospital and offers state‑of‑the‑art cardiovascular services, bariatric, GYN and robotic surgery. The Women’s Center at Bay Area, with its NICU Unit, is also the home of our graduate medical education program. Doctors Regional is our acute care hospital, with a 24‑hour emergency department, cardiac catheterization labs, orthopedic and surgical services, and inpatient rehabilitation. The Heart Hospital offers complete diagnostics, treatment, surgery and rehabilitation for cardiac patients. Northwest Regional/Northwest Behavior Health Center provides emergency medical services, laboratory, imaging services and outpatient behavioral health services. Bayview Behavioral Hospital provides inpatient and outpatient short‑term treatment for psychiatric patients ages 12 years and older, as well as substance abuse treatment. Northshore Emergency Center is a full-service 24‑7 emergency department in Portland that offers outpatient laboratory, imaging and occupational services. Radiation Oncology offers advanced technology for treating cancer with the latest and most specific radiation therapies available. Our programs focus on the needs of individual patients, while employing the latest techniques and research of 21st-century medicine.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

“There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it.”- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.