Leisure Activities Tech - LNMTC

** Agency
* *** Division
* *** Job Classification Title
** Health Care Technician I (S)
** Position Number
**** Grade
* * MH01

North Carolina State Government is one of the state’s largest employers, with over 76,000 employees all working toward a common goal: a safer and stronger North Carolina. We are a large organization comprised of various agencies, offices, and universities, each providing important public services.

Permanent, temporary, and time-limited state government jobs can be found from the mountains to the coast. Find your next opportunity today!
** Description of Work
** Employees in this class provide facilitative services and quality care for the welfare, safety and security of individuals in state psychiatric hospitals, adult corrections, juvenile centers, developmental centers, neuro medical treatment centers, or alcohol/drug treatment centers. Employees implement specific goals identified in the individual’s comprehensive treatment plan. Employees provide basic medical care and train and assist individuals in activities of daily living;

assist in performing complex nursing care; and provide safe and secure environments. Employees may provide individuals training for home living, social communications, leisure, vocations, community living, and functional academics. Employees implement and stay current in the assigned individuals’ comprehensive/person-centered treatment plans. Work involves providing ongoing observation, interaction, and feedback to individuals and reporting concerns to the appropriate professional program staff.

Work also involves working with the interdisciplinary/treatment team and providing input on each individual’s care and condition. Work involves ongoing contact with individuals who may be diagnosed with a wide spectrum of psychiatric and/or developmental conditions that may include unpredictable behaviors, maladaptive, and potentially dangerous behaviors. Work may include providing custodial supervision to inmates. Work may involve other closely related duties including the administration of medications in prison facilities.

Work is performed under the supervision of clinical (e.g., nursing) or professional program staff.
** Knowledge

Skills and Abilities

/Management Preferences
**** Recruitment Range: $31,235.00 - $46,852.00 Annually
*** Ability to model creativity and flexibility in supporting resident activities.
* Ability to motivate to enhance resident participation in unit activities.
* Knowledge and skills in basic and resident care policies.
* General knowledge of nursing methods and techniques in caring for medical, surgical and mentally ill patients.
* Ability to provide personal care and treatments for patients.
** A Sign-on bonus of $2,000 may be offered to the successful applicant(s) of this posting, contingent on the  Budget Approval.
**** Eligibility for Sign-on Bonus
** To qualify for the Sign-on Bonus, a newly hired permanent full-time or permanent part-time employee must work 30 to 40 hours per week to be eligible. Those who are eligible and working less than 40 hours a week will receive a prorated rate.

An employee is
** not
* * eligible for a sign-on bonus if:
· The employee has held a position in the North Carolina State government, including the judicial system, or the University of North Carolina system, within the last 12 months (the employee shall remain ineligible for 12 months from the separation date).
· The employee has previously received a sign-on bonus from any State agency.
· DHHS has paid any contract placement or recruitment fees.

All Sign-on Bonuses are contingent upon budget and final eligibility determination as of the effective date of hire.
** This Position Is Exempt And Is EXEMPT From Certain Provisions Of The State Human Resources Act (GS 126).
**** We Will Be Recruiting For Multiple Positions With This Post. Your Application Will Be Considered For All Noted Open Positions.
** Longleaf Neuro-Medical Treatment Center (LNMTC), located in Wilson, NC, is a state-operated certified Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF). With a staff of about 520, LNMTC provides support to approximately 200 residents with complex medical needs and/or co-existing…