Mental Health Technician (Full Time and Part Time) - Desert Parkway Behavioral Healthcare Hospital

The Mental Health Technician provides direct patient care to patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, supports a therapeutic setting and ensures the safety and well-being of patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assists in identifying patients' problems, needs, and strengths
• Suggests modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior
• Provides input into discharge planning
• Monitors patients' progress
• Communicates information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team
• Encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities
• Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment.
• Orients new patients to facility, program, and setting
• Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and functioning level
• Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients
• Participates in maintaining the therapeutic setting on the unit, enforces the CPI system or other methods of behavior management
• Carries out clerical and administrative assignment to support patient care, program, and organization operations

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED required
• Current CPR certificate
• CPI Obtained within 60 days of hire
• Experience with therapeutic limit-setting helpful or an understanding of behavior management modalities helpful
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries

Benefits

A full benefits package is available the first of the month following just one (1) month of employment!

Desert Parkway offers competitive benefits to include:

• Medical insurance (three plans to choose from - full time employees)
• Dental insurance (two plans to choose from)
• Vision insurance
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Healthcare spending account
• Dependent care spending account
• PTO Plan with holiday premium pay
• Discounted cafeteria meal plan
• Life insurance (including plans for spouse and children)
• Short- and long-term disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)
• Pet Insurance
• Identity Theft Insurance