2nd Shift Psychiatric Care Technician

Overview

Title: 2nd Shift Psychiatric Care Technician

State Role

Title:

49053

Hiring Range: $38,630 minimum, negotiable based on relevant years of experience

Pay Band: 3

Agency: Dept Behavioral Health/Develop

Location: Southern Va Mental Health Inst

Agency Website: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

• This position will work at Southern Virginia Mental Health Institute, a 72-bed Joint Commission accredited State Mental Health Facility, located in Danville, VA.
• Psychiatric Technicians work directly with patients to achieve therapeutic goals through activities of daily living (ADLs), attend to patients’ problems and concerns, encourage patients in activities, provide intervention for behavior problems and crisis situations, and promote patients’ awareness and coping skills to deal with realities of judicial controls as required.
• This position requires working with patients that may become verbally and/or physically aggressive. You are responsible for understanding and using the least restrictive interventions available per hospital policy and to successfully avoid the use of seclusion and restraint whenever possible.
• Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate client behavior through observing, conversing and listening.
• Interact with patients in a therapeutic manner.
• Monitor and report changes in patients’ medical and psychiatric status.
• Lift heavy objects (greater than 50 pounds).
• Walk and/or stand a minimum of 75% of time while on shift.
• Shift will include 2nd shift with 2 12-hour shifts (11:00 am–11:30 pm) and 2 8-hour shifts (3:00 pm–11:30 pm) with a 30-minute meal break, some holidays on a rotating basis, and every other weekend. Shift differentials for second shift: $2.50/hour weekdays and $3.00/hour weekends and weekday holidays.

• This position requires basic computer skills to complete documentation in an Electronic Health Record (EHR).
• A valid driver’s license is required and must remain valid throughout employment.
• Ability to follow written and verbal directions.
• Physical and mental ability to participate in patient’s treatment and behavior management including performing manual tasks, walking, sitting, standing, lifting, seeing, hearing, breathing, learning, writing and performing mathematical calculations.

• Experience working in a psychiatric, healthcare facility, acute care, long-term or correctional setting.
• High school diploma/GED.
• Veterans and people with National Service.
• Bilingual fluency in Spanish and English.
• CNA License / QMHP Certification.

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

Applicants must list all relevant experience that you wish to be considered for this position. Applicants will be provided confirmation of receipt when your application and/or resume is submitted. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

A fingerprint-based criminal history check and reference checks are required for the selected candidate for this position. Under Virginia Code §37.2-314 and 37.2-408.1, the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services is prohibited from employing or using as volunteers, persons who have been convicted of specific “barrier” crimes or persons who may be the subject of pending “barrier” charges.

DBHDS facilities are no longer required to ensure that all staff members are vaccinated against COVID-19. However, facilities encourage and educate staff on the benefits, and continue to offer COVID-19 vaccination programs to staff, residents/clients. Employees may be required to disclose immunization status for purposes of infection prevention and/or management of outbreaks. Upon acceptance of a job offer, new recruits will be asked to disclose their vaccination status (and for those fully vaccinated, proof of vaccination) during the pre-employment process.

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