Mental Health Technician

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. Day Shift - 7.5 Hours (United States of America) The Mental Health Technician (MHT) is an individual who functions in both a support and collaborative role with the Registered Nurse by providing direct care to individual and to groups of psychiatric patients. He/she is responsible for patient care activities as assigned and milieu management. Principal duties and responsibilities include: organize and implement group activities in conjunction with the unit program and other staff, performs procedures associated with activities of daily living and personal hygiene of the patient, demonstrates a humanistic and caring attitude, demonstrate a basic knowledge of desired effects and side effects of psychotropic medications, establish and foster collegial relationships with peers and other disciplines, is open and responsive to the diverse backgrounds and experience of other people and promotes an environment that is sensitive to cultural diversity, demonstrate therapeutic skills in crisis intervention, perform supplemental components of t...