Mental Health Tech

Job Summary

Provides direct and indirect patient care in individual patient care settings, consistent with the nursing department's standards of care. Prepares and compiles medical records. Initiates directions from physician and nursing staff.

• Demonstrate the ability to take an inquiry call and perform pre‑admission clinical assessments.
• Demonstrate the ability to administer a Mini‑Mental Status Tool and other approved assessment tools.
• Demonstrate knowledge of professional ethics, patient rights, and confidentiality.
• Demonstrate knowledge of administering the BPRS tool.
• Demonstrate the ability to assess sexual acting‑out behavior.
• Demonstrate the ability to administer the suicide assessment tool and interpret data.
• Must complete NET learning on therapeutic relationships and boundaries.
• Demonstrate the ability to perform AIMS tool and interpret data.
• Understand the predominant diagnosis of the patient population served and the most common treatment methodologies; complete the psychiatric terminology in‑service.
• Demonstrate knowledge of medications to be administered, including their effects, side effects, and potential adverse reactions.
• Capable of assisting in medical and psychiatric emergencies according to protocol until a physician arrives.
• Be CPR certified.
• Complete Handle with Care training.
• Perform 15‑minute precaution checks as first priority.
• Monitors patients for safety and medical status and reports abnormalities to the RB immediately; failure to perform 15‑minute checks correctly may result in immediate termination.
• Monitors day rooms and patient rooms for safety each shift.
• Understands court commitment process.
• Performs the complete psychiatric patient registration process and obtains patient signatures according to registration standard work for behavioral health.

High school diploma or GED required.

Experience in a mental health setting preferred but not required.

English required. Multilingual capabilities enhance the ability to perform this job. Must have the ability to speak effectively and professionally to all staff, management, and all outside individuals at all levels from elementary to professional.

Must have the ability to apply non‑judgmental reasoning capabilities whenever necessary when dealing with patients, visitors, and staff. Critical thinking skills a must. Must have reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do. Must possess purposeful, self‑regulatory judgment which results in interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and inference, as well as explanation of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, or contextual considerations upon which that judgment is based.