Psychiatric Technician (Safety)

Psychiatric Technician (Safety) Pease note :

You must take and pass an examination for Psychiatric Technician

(Safety) to establish list eligibility. The Department of State

Hospitals - Napa is accepting applications for multiple

Permanent-Full time vacancies to the Psychiatric Technician

(Safety) classification. The vacancies exist in various Programs

within the Hospital. Positions and shift availability are limited.

Experience is preferred, but not required. For more information,

please contact Fe Naguit, at (707) 253-5026. Please be certain that

your application package is thorough and completely describes your

work experience. SROA & Surplus Employees are encouraged to

apply and will receive first consideration. Only the most qualified

candidates that are reachable on the Certification List or eligible

for lateral transfer will be scheduled for a hiring interview. This

advertisement may be used to fill multiple vacancies and will run

until the position is filled. Position will be filled based upon

budget approval. Please attach a copy of your license with your

application. Applications may be screened and only the most

competitive will be invited for an interview. Applications may be

screened and only the most competitive will be invited for an

interview. Positions will be filled based upon budget approval.

This advertisement may be used to fill multiple vacancies and will

run until filled with the following cutoff dates : 8 / 31 / 2025,

9 / 30 / 2025,10 / 31 / 2025, 11 / 28 / 2025 and 12 / 28 / 2025. To ensure that

your application will be considered for this recruitment the

following items are required : You must complete the STD 678

EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION in its entirety. Include “PSYCHIATRIC

TECHNICIAN (SAFETY), JC -486767” in the “JOB TITLE(S)” section of

the application. Duties Performed and Supervisor’s name and Contact

information must be completed on the STD 678 -Incomplete

applications will not be considered. Resumes will not be accepted

in lieu of information provided on the STD. 678 Possession of a

valid license to practice as a Psychiatric Technician issued by the

BVNPTE. To take the Psychiatric Technician (Safety) Examination go

to CalCareers Job Description Custody tasks include escorting

forensic clients, patients, or inmates in the facility and in the

community; searching for drugs, contraband, and weapons; counting,

distributing, and accounting for eating utensils to prevent their

use as weapons; inspecting forensic clients', patients', or

inmates' mail for hazardous contraband; inspecting facilities to

identify security breaches that could lead to the escape of a

forensic client, patient, or inmate; observing and intervening in

forensic client, patient, or inmate behavior that may injure

people, damage property, or signal impending escape attempts.

Incumbents work with other disciplines as part of the treatment

team to provide an overall treatment program for the forensic

client, patient, or inmate. Tasks include performing nursing

procedures such as administering medications, treatments including

oral medications, hypodermic injections, and at developmental

centers administering urinary catheterizations, enemas, and taking

• and charting temperature, pulse, blood pressure, and respiration;

observing forensic clients', patients', or inmates' physical

condition and behavior and reporting significant changes to a unit

supervisor or physician and recording nursing notes in the forensic

clients', patients', or inmates' record; preparing and caring for

forensic clients, patients, or inmates during treatment; giving

first aid as needed; and participating as a member of the

multidisciplinary team with the development of treatment plans and

objectives from assessment of the forensic clients, patients, or

inmates. Incumbents may assist in the training of Psychiatric

Technician Students, Psychiatric Technician Training Candidates,

Psychiatric Technician Trainees, and other ancillary staff; help to

create a clean, safe, and therapeutic environment for forensic

clients, patients, or inmates; apply mental health principles in

develop, encourage participation in, and supervise on-the-unit

group and individual program activities for forensic clients,

patients, or inmates; assist rehabilitation therapists in

occupational, recreational, vocational, and educational therapy

programs for forensic clients, patients, or inmates; motivate

forensic clients, patients, or inmates to develop self-reliance in

daily living and assist them with activities of daily living such

as feeding, habit training, and maintaining a well-groomed

appearance; keep forensic clients, patients, or inmates and their

protect forensic clients, patients, inmates, and others from

personal injury; order supplies as needed; keep records; and

participate in in-service training programs. Knowledge and

Abilities Knowledge of : Custody procedures, and public and property

protection policies; fundamentals of nursing care, general

behavioral and psychiatric procedures, forensic client, patient, or

inmate behavior and mental health principles and techniques

involved in the care and treatment of individual or groups of

developmentally or mentally disordered forensic clients, patients,

pharmacology; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Management Assaultive

Behavior techniques; hospital procedures. Ability to : Learn and

apply sound judgment for situations including the protection of

persons and property; apply basic nursing knowledge, skills, and

attitudes; establish effective therapeutic relationships with

developmentally or mentally disordered forensic clients, patients,

or inmates; recognize symptoms requiring medical or psychiatric

attention; think and act quickly in emergencies; work with a

treatment team to provide occupational, recreational, vocational,

and educational therapy programs for forensic clients, patients, or

inmates; follow directions; keep appropriate records; develop clear

and concise reports of incidents; analyze situations accurately and

take effective action. Applicants are required to pass a

drug-screening test. Testing of current employees who are

applicants in an examination or who are transferring is permitted

only if the person does not have a current appointment to a class

for which drug testing is a requirement.