Mental Health Technician

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Nashville (TN); Presencial; USD 21.000 - 30.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Comprehensive medical benefits

Wellbeing support

Paid time off and family leave

401(k) plan with employer match

Education assistance

Descripción de la vacante

HCA Healthcare, Inc. is seeking caregivers at TriStar Centennial Medical Center in Nashville to deliver compassionate, patient-centered care.

Responsibilities include promoting mental health, maintaining a therapeutic milieu, and assisting patients with daily living while ensuring safety and accurate documentation. The role requires timely responses to patient inquiries, adherence to vital signs monitoring, and collaboration with nursing staff to maintain high-quality care.

Formación

• Promotes mental health and maintains high-quality patient care.
• Respects patient rights and information.
• Maintains a therapeutic milieu and supports patient care.
• Ensures safety and supports daily living activities.
• Records observations and baseline measurements accurately.

Responsabilidades

• Escort patients to activities in a safe, professional manner.
• Monitor vital signs and document findings accurately.
• Maintain unit cleanliness and organization.
• Record messages and respond to patient inquiries.
• Maintain filing and administrative paperwork as assigned.
• Support patients’ daily living activities and activities of daily living.
• Maintain a safe environment and interpersonal relations.
• Ensure proper telephone etiquette and pass messages to staff.

Conocimientos

Mental health care

Vital signs

Patient communication

Documentation

Safety awareness

Descripción del empleo

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized.

Job Summary and Qualifications

• Demonstrates expertise in mental health promotion and maintenance of high-quality comprehensive patient care

• Displays respect for patients’ integrity, patient information and patient rights

• Demonstrates expertise in the performance of tasks necessary to maintain a therapeutic milieu and optimum patient care

• Escorts patients to and from scheduled activities in a safe and professional manner

• Performs all specific skills assigned including monitoring vital signs in a complete and accurate manner

• Assists with maintaining the cleanliness of the unit

• Maintains high level of interpersonal relationships with program staff

• Utilizes appropriate skills in telephone etiquette when answering the telephone, making sure to record correct messages and pass along to appropriate staff, including patient inquiries

• Demonstrate efficiency in maintaining support services, which are vital to effective program operation

• Maintains unit filing and paperwork system, if assigned by Nurse Manager or Charge Nurse

• Assists with maintaining patients’ activities of daily living

• Demonstrates ability to maintain a safe environment

• Documentation of observations and baseline measurements in the medical record

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

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 (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

TriStar Centennial Medical Center is a 740+ bed comprehensive facility. We offer medical and surgical programs. These include behavioral health and 24-hour emergency. These also include heart and vascular and imaging. These also include neurosciences, oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics, rehabilitation, sleep disorder, and women's services. We are an affiliate of TriStar Health. TriStar Centennial Medical Center is a 43-acre campus. We are home to TriStar Centennial Heart & Vascular Center. We are home to TriStar Centennial Women's Hospital. Our campus includes The Children's Hospital at TriStar Centennial, Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at TriStar Centennial Medical Center, TriStar Centennial Advanced Joint Replacement Institute and TriStar Centennial Parthenon Pavilion.

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.