Mental Health Technician 2
Full Time
Jackson, MS
Posted
Job description
Job Title : Mental Health Technician 2 Job Summary : Provides a full range of educational and treatment services to patients and families under the direction of the Nurse Manager. Maintains complete and accurate patient records and provides feedback as necessary to treatment team. Education :
Work Experience :
Skills Abilities :
License & Cert :
- Must have a baccalaureate degree in social work, psychology, or a related field.
- Must demonstrate ability to recognize patients' individual needs based on medical conditions, age (young adults, middle aged, and geriatric), limitations and planned procedures, and have good verbal and written communication skills.
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- Job Function :
Functional Demand :
- Maintains established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality assurance program, safety, environmental and infection control standards. Orients new patients to unit, conducts contraband searches, and provides patient escort as needed. Leads community meetings. Relates with patients, public, and team members in a manner conducive to harmonious working environment in which patient centered goals are achieved. Gathers and documents data necessary to assess patient progress. Provides psychiatric care in accordance with hospital standards of patient care. Takes vital signs and assists with admission and discharge. May provide higher levels of therapeutic interventions as indicated by program needs or physician orders. Assumes responsibility for coordinating treatment team meetings and initiating treatment plans. Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, Inservice meetings, and workshops.
- Prolonged periods of standing, walking, or sitting while on duty. Lifting, pushing, and pulling up to 50 pounds with or without assistance. Transferring, repositioning patients. Reaching, stooping, bending, kneeing, and crouching for patient care functions. Visual and auditory acuity and manual dexterity essential to performing designated duties required. Optimal auditory acuity required. Manual dexterity involving the handling of equipment and instruments or needles is essential to performing assigned duties. Ability to perform effectively in a stressful and fast-paced environment. Ability to pass all required health and other screening tests. Physical conditions are clean, neat and well lit. Maybe subjected to unpleasant sights and odors, stressful situations and hazardous or infectious agents where judgment as to precautions need to be taken is essential. Climate control and ambient temperature variances may be experienced. Exposure to limited amounts of hazardous chemicals or substances and infectious disease processes are a possibility. Hours of duty maybe irregular or unexpectedly extended due to emergency circumstances. Direct contact with blood or other body fluids to which universal precautions apply. Personal protective equipment is made available and must be worn.
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