Unit Support Technician - Youth Behavioral Health Facility

UNC REX Healthcare; Butner (NC); On-site; USD 22,000 - 31,000; Part time

Job summary

UNC Medical Center in Butner, NC seeks a Unit Support Technician for day shifts in the Youth Behavioral Health facility. This 24-hour per week role involves patient transport, equipment cleaning, and assisting with meals and room setup, under supervision.

Orientation occurs at Chapel Hill with training extending until the Butner unit is operational. The position requires 1–2 years in a healthcare setting, and a BCLS certification; background checks and safety compliance are mandatory.

Qualifications

• One to two years’ healthcare facility experience preferred.
• BCLS certification required.
• Ability to follow safety protocols and procedures.
• Ability to read safety rules and instructions.

Responsibilities

• Maintains an environment of safety for patients, self and others and patient safety initiatives.
• Provides transport of patients for discharge and to other designated areas within the facility.
• Obtains and cleans equipment as needed/requested by nursing staff.
• Assists with distribution of food trays/ice water and feeds patients as directed; Makes unoccupied beds as needed.
• Obtains necessary supplies to set room up for admission and prepares room for discharge cleaning to include removing all linen and trash from the room.
• Retrieves and transports specimens, supplies and materials to and from departments within the institution. Restocks supply areas within the unit as directed and orders supplies as needed with manager approval.
• Assists at desk, answering phones, call bells and assists with paper work as time permits.
• Monitors daily refrigerator temperatures and documents accordingly. Assures proper labeling of stored food in both staff and nutrition refrigerators.
• Assists with keeping hallways free from obstruction by placing items in storage area and keeping necessary items to one side of hallway.

Skills

Safety awareness

Patient transport

Communication skills

Reading comprehension

Education

BCLS

Job description

Description

We are pleased to announce that we are looking for Unit Support Technicians to join our new UNC Hospitals Youth Behavioral Health Facility (YBH).

Position Offering

• Shift: Day (Variable weekdays/weekends/holidays)
• Hours: Full Time; 40 hrs/wk; Hours between 6:30 am and 5:00pm
• Entity: UNC Medical Center
• Location: Butner, NC

UNC Hospitals Youth Behavioral Health is a 54 bed inpatient psychiatric facility located in Butner, NC. The hospital is composed of 4 units designed to care for child and adolescent patients with a variety of common mental health diagnoses, including those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In a milieu-based, trauma-informed, therapeutic setting, patients are treated by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals, including Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Therapy Services, Social Workers, Nursing Services, Pharmacy, Pastoral Care and Nutrition Services. Safety is the key component of the care provided as well as introduction of positive coping skills, healthy living and positive leisure activities.

This position requires the ability to attend orientation and training at the UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill. Training will continue at the UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill for several weeks after orientation until the facility in Butner is operational.

Summary

Assists with patient transport, cleaning equipment, delivering patient food trays, and other administrative tasks as needed.

Responsibilities

1. Maintains an environment of safety for patients, self and others and patient safety initiatives.
2. Provides transport of patients for discharge and to other designated areas within the facility.
3. Obtains and cleans equipment as needed/requested by nursing staff.
4. Assists with distribution of food trays/ice water and feeds patients as directed; Makes unoccupied beds as needed.
5. Obtains necessary supplies to set room up for admission and prepares room for discharge cleaning to include removing all linen and trash from the room.
6. Retrieves and transports specimens, supplies and materials to and from departments within the institution. Restocks supply areas within the unit as directed and orders supplies as needed with manager approval.
7. Assists at desk, answering phones, call bells and assists with paper work as time permits.
8. Monitors daily refrigerator temperatures and documents accordingly. Assures proper labeling of stored food in both staff and nutrition refrigerators.
9. Assists with keeping hallways free from obstruction by placing items in storage area and keeping necessary items to one side of hallway.

Other Information

Education Requirements

• None required as long as other position qualifications are met.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

• BCLS

Professional Experience Requirements

• One to two years previous experience in a Healthcare facility desired.

Knowledge/Skills and Abilities Requirements

• Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Job Details

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: UNCH YBH Administration

Work Type: Part Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 24.00

Salary Range: $18.00 - $24.66 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: Butner:NC:27509

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities.