Mental Health Technician
1 day ago
Las Vegas
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, • Maintains a good rapport with patients Schedule is Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 7:00pm - 7:30am Requirements • High school or equivalent required., • Experience with therapeutic limit-setting helpful or an understanding of level systems or other behavior management modalities helpful A benefits package is available the first of the month following just one month of employment! Desert Parkway offers competitive benefits to include: • Medical insurance (three plans to choose from), • 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