The Mental Health Technician provides direct patient care to patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, supports a therapeutic setting and ensures the safety and well-being of patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Helps identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths

• Suggests modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior

• Provides input into discharge planning

• Monitors patients' progress and communicates information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team Encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities

• Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment.

• Orients new patients to facility, program, and setting

• Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and functioning level

• Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients

• Participates in maintaining the therapeutic setting on the unit, enforces the CPI system or other methods of behavior management

• Carries out clerical and administrative assignment to support patient care, program, and organization operations

• Maintains a good rapport with patients

Schedule is Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 7:00am - 7:30pm

Requirements

• High school or equivalent required.

• Experience with therapeutic limit-setting helpful or an understanding of level systems or other behavior management modalities helpful

• Ability to maintain professional boundaries

Benefits

A benefits package is available the first of the month following just one month of employment!

Desert Parkway offers competitive benefits to include:

• Medical insurance (three plans to choose from)

• Dental insurance (two plans to choose from)

• Vision insurance

• 401K Retirement Plan

• Healthcare spending account

• Dependent care spending account

• PTO Plan with holiday premium pay

• Discounted cafeteria meal plan

• Life insurance (including plans for spouse and children)

• Short- and long-term disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)

• Pet Insurance

• Identity Theft Insurance