MENTAL HEALTH TECH - DEGREE

Responsibilities

Hiring college grad for second shift MHT. Sign on bonus eligible.

Palm Shores Behavioral Health Center provides quality mental health care and education services for adolescents, ages 11-17 who are experiencing behavioral, emotional, educational, family and social challenges. The dedicated professionals at Palm Shores Behavioral Health Center provide quality mental health treatment for children. The program establishes healthy behaviors and prepares children to transition back home.

Website : Palm Shores

The Mental Health Technician (MHT) performs direct patient care duties in a residential behavioral health setting. The Mental Health Technician is responsible for supervising the patient in treatment, recreation, educational settings, and other activities of daily living to assess changes in their social behaviors and clinical status. MHT's have the primary responsibility for ensuring the patient's safety in the facility. MHT's are responsible for understanding and using the least restrictive interventions per facility policy and successfully avoid seclusion and restraint whenever possible.

Duties include but not limited :

• Actively supervise patients in all daily activities while documenting patients' behaviors, conditions & progress in a manner prescribed by policy and clinical standards. (q15 / q5 forms).
• Take and record vital signs, both manually and with equipment.
• Follow the therapeutic interventions outlined by the treatment team for each patient and maintain awareness of patient's individualized plan of care including goals and intervention
• Supervises and assist patients with activities of daily living (ADL) (hygiene, meals, laundry) as needed.
• Regular participation in verbal de-escalation and / or therapeutic crisis intervention with physically aggressive patients that may involve personal risk
• Check patient for contraband and manage patient belongings.

BENEFITS

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation's largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE : UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance, growing since its inception into a Fortune 500 corporation. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has 99,000 employees. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates 28 acute care hospitals, 331 behavioral health facilities, 60 outpatient and other facilities in 39 U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

Qualifications

Requirements :

Bachelor Degree in psychology, sociology, social work, human services or like field

Experience : Preferred six month's experience in residential psychiatry or other childcare facility / agency experience in comparable position

Background : Must be able to pass a Level 2 Background Screening to work in Healthcare (AHCA) and Pre-employment Drug Test.

Additional Requirements :

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