Mental Health Technician/Driver - Intake and Outpatient: full time and part time
•2 days ago
Estimated Pay | $20 per hour |
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Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
Location | Las Vegas, Nevada |
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Estimated Pay We estimate that this job pays $19.57 per hour based on our data.
$13.43
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$30.33
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Job Description
Job Description
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:
- Helps identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths
- Suggests modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior
- Provides input into discharge planning
- Monitors patients' progress and 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
- Accompanies and transports patients as assigned
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED required
- Current CPR
- Valid Driver's license and insurance
- Experience with therapeutic limit-setting helpful or an understanding of level systems or other behavior management modalities helpful
- Ability to maintain professional boundaries
Benefits
Benefits package is available the first of the month following just one (1) month of employment!
Desert Parkway offers competitive benefits to include:
- Health Insurance (three plans to chose from) - full time employees only
- 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
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