Mental Health Technician Job at Desert Parkway Behavioral Healthcare Hospital, Las Vegas, NV

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  • Desert Parkway Behavioral Healthcare Hospital
  • Las Vegas, NV

Job Description

The Mental Health Technician provides direct patient care to patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, supports a therapeutic setting and ensures the safety and well-being of patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :

  • Assists in identifying patients' problems, needs, and strengths
  • Suggests modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior
  • Provides input into discharge planning
  • Monitors patients' progress
  • Communicates information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team
  • Encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities
  • Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment.
  • Orients new patients to facility, program, and setting
  • Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and functioning level
  • Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients
  • Participates in maintaining the therapeutic setting on the unit, enforces the CPI system or other methods of behavior management
  • Carries out clerical and administrative assignment to support patient care, program, and organization operations

Requirements

  • High school diploma or GED required
  • Current CPR certificate
  • CPI Obtained within 60 days of hire
  • Experience with therapeutic limit-setting helpful or an understanding of level systems or other behavior management modalities helpful
  • Ability to maintain professional boundaries

Benefits

A full benefits package is available the first of the month following just one (1) month of employment!

Desert Parkway offers competitive benefits to include:

  • Medical insurance (three plans to choose from)
  • Dental insurance (two plans to choose from)
  • Vision insurance
  • 401K Retirement Plan
  • Healthcare spending account
  • Dependent care spending account
  • PTO Plan with holiday premium pay
  • Discounted cafeteria meal plan
  • Life insurance (including plans for spouse and children)
  • Short- and long-term disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)
  • Pet Insurance
  • Identity Theft Insurance

Job Tags

Holiday work, Full time, Temporary work,

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