BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN

Job description

Shift: Rotation of day and afternoon shifts, occational weekends. Days and hours are subject to change. Job Summary: Functions as a member of the treatment team under the clinical direction of a registered nurse by providing patient care and performing evaluations of psychiatric patients in the emergency room. The Behavioral Health Technician position provides direct one-on-one and group counseling services to mental health patients while participating in team assessments and care plan development. Essential Job Functions: - Delivers direct and indirect patient care in accordance with hospital policies, procedures, protocols, and standards of care. - Performs and/or assists with patient care needs as directed. - Assists patients with activities of daily living if needed. - Conducts vitals on patients. - Conducts timed observation rounding of patients on the unit, based upon the patient’s identified level of risk. - Collects, documents, and reports ongoing patient care data as directed. - Interacts with assigned patients, makes pertinent observations of patients' behaviors, reports and records same. - Remains with and observes assigned patients in a one-to-one situation if necessary...