TECH - MH/BH (DEGREE)
UHS•Jacksonville, FL
•Onsite
About The Position
This role serves as an active member of the clinical staff, focusing on maintaining therapeutic relationships with patients and ensuring a safe, clean, and therapeutic environment. The position involves assisting patients in program activities and performing technical/patient care duties related to patient health and safety. The role requires strong communication and documentation skills, the ability to handle stressful situations, and perform specific medical tests and patient care tasks. Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Sociology, or Human Services required
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or illustrative form
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus
Nice To Haves
- A minimum of 1 year experience with psychiatric or addiction patients preferred
Responsibilities
- Serves as an active member of the clinical staff
- Maintains a therapeutic relationship with all patients
- Assists in maintenance of a safe, clean, therapeutic environment
- Assures patient participation in program activities
- Performs technical/patient care duties relative to patient’s health and safety
- Write documentation of patients behavior
- Document clinical records that include Q15 quality checks
- Prepare routine reports and correspondence
- Speak effectively to acute mental health and addiction patients, their family members, physicians and other treatment staff before groups of people or employees of organization, and individually
- Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or illustrative form
- Deal with problems involving acute mental health patients
- Verbally de-escalate patients and remain calm in stressful situations when necessary
- Discern when a situation within the unit is becoming escalated with a patient or patients
- Communicate concerns about patient escalation to other treatment staff members
- Obtain vital signs
- Administer Oxygen
- Administer UDS test
- Administer UCG test
- Perform ECG testing only when specifically trained for
- Assist in all patient’s Activity of Daily Living
- Stand for long periods of times, walk, and occasionally sit
- Use hands to finger, handle, or feel
- Reach with hands and arms
- Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
- Assist with physically restraining a patient when necessary
- May be exposed to second hand smoke during smoke break time with patients
- May be exposed to weather conditions include heat outdoors while monitoring patients who are participating in their break time in designated courtyards
- Regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally up to 75 pounds
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
