Behavioral Health Technician

Mount Sinai Medical Center•Miami Beach, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Mount Sinai Medical Center, established in 1949, is dedicated to providing high-quality healthcare and access to its diverse community. It operates 12 facilities across Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties, including a 674-bed main campus, offering 38 medical services such as cancer care, 24/7 emergency care, orthopedics, and cardiovascular care. As South Florida's largest private independent not-for-profit hospital, Mount Sinai is committed to recruiting and training top healthcare workers and fostering the next generation of medical pioneers. The organization prides itself on a 'Culture of Caring' with over 4,000 employees, promoting an environment of care and compassion. Each team member contributes to the mission of delivering excellent healthcare through innovation, education, and research, aiming to be a beacon of quality healthcare in South Florida. This specific position is for a Behavioral Health Technician working the night shift from 7 PM to 7 AM.

Requirements

Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Certificate within 90 days of employment.
CPR Certification required.
High School Diploma or equivalent.
At least 1 year experience caring for mentally ill and emotionally disturbed adult patients.

Nice To Haves

Behavioral Health Technician certification

Responsibilities

Provides basic level of psychiatric nursing care including taking and documenting vital signs, weight, height, abdominal girth; assists with all aspects of direct patient care including providing personal care and hygiene, blood glucose testing, administering treatments and enemas.
Observes and documents patient's condition and behavior and reports significant changes including observed side effects of medications to the appropriate authority.
Observes a variety of clinical problems and handles the less complex within the limits of knowledge and authority.
Participates actively in interdisciplinary meetings and assists in developing, implementing, evaluating, revising and documenting interdisciplinary treatment plans.
Provides feedback concerning patient responses, problems, and progress; provides alternative plans for patients who are deemed inappropriate for typical groups offered.
Organizes, schedules, and facilitates individual and group therapy, education, training, leisure, and/ or recreational activities to deal constructively with patients' emotional, psychological and behavioral problems.
Collaborates with other disciplines in facilitating programming activities.
Maintains and updates patients' records and prepares behavioral and assessment summary reports to provide accurate current information on patients' problems and progress on the unit and in specific therapy and programming activities.
Confers with the treatment team and patient's family as applicable to provide current direct observation reports and information updates.
Meets with the patients to identify treatment needs and orients patients to unit programming groups and activities.
Maintains therapeutic communication with patient.
Gives re-direction and/or reality re-orientation as needed.
Takes admitting psychiatric histories and assists in on-going treatment.
Maintains a safe and therapeutic patient environment.
Performs and documents patient safety rounds/ room checks following unit policy and procedure.
Monitors for suicide/ homicide/elopement behaviors and reports them to RN immediately.
Responds to codes calmly and professionally.
Adheres to the principles of non-violent crisis intervention when dealing with aggressive patients.
Assists in placing patient in seclusion/ restraint and observes suicide/ seclusion precaution.
Provides care to patients in seclusion/ restraint.
Assists with transport, transfer, and discharge of patient including the care of personal property and labeling.
Accompany patients to Baker Act court as necessary.
Conducts patient belonging inventory upon admission and documents in the appropriate form.
Checks packages brought in by visitors.
Advises RN when contraband are found during inventory.
Recognizes signs and symptoms of withdrawal from alcohol or other substances and reports to RN.
Attends at least 75% of scheduled departmental meetings and in-service programs.
Performs other works as assigned.