Mental Health tech

Overview

Provides direct inpatient psychiatric care, safety monitoring, and patient support.

Key Responsibilities

• patient care
• milieu safety
• vital signs
• lab collection
• group facilitation
• admission process

Tasks

-Provides direct patient care to psychiatric inpatients including but not limited to milieu safety/management, individual patient intervention, and monitoring level of functioning. Assists with routine daily tasks on the psychiatric unit and documents these actions. -Assumes responsibility for knowing and maintaining established hospital and departmental objectives, policies/procedures including general sanitation, safety, environmental and infection control standards. -Functions in a cost-conscious manner (i.e. conserving supplies, caring for and maintening equipment, appropriate billing and charges, etc.). -Intervenes with patients and visitors to offer support, information, and limit setting as needed. -Completes and documents milieu tasks as assigned by charge nurse including patient and milieu monitoring, safety checks, assisting with vital signs, activities of daily living (ADL's), obtaining lab specimens, and patient transport for tests and procedures. Works to maintain a safe and therapeutic milieu. -Develops, conducts, and documents clinical group process including psycho educational group, process group, focus group, and ongoing education. -Assists in the development and implementation of the multidisciplinary plan -Participates in staff meetings and other inservices, meetings or committees as required. -Assists with admission and discharge process including completing assigned sections of assessment/admission tools; escorting patients to and from psychiatric unit; checking for contraband; recording/ storing personal objects and valuables, and orienting patient to the unit. -Participates in performance activities including problem identification, data collection, solution selection, implementation, and evaluation. Also assists in the care and maintenance of departmental equipment and supplies as appropriate.

Requirements

• therapeutic communication
• physical restraint
• adl assistance
• 1+ year
• vitals
• accu-checks

What You Bring

-Ability to engage in therapeutic conversations with mentally ill or chemically dependent patients. -Excellent social skills. -Willingness and ability to safely take part in physical restraints if necessary -Able to assist patients in ADLs. -Ability to lead groups in psycho-education or recreational activities. -At lease one year of experience in customer service or social support services such as mental health, social service agencies, hospitals or education. -Experience working with mentally ill preferred -Ability to take vitals and to do accu-cheks. -Able to deal with conflicted situations and to redirect patients therapeutically. -Some college courses in psychology preferred -Associates or Bachelors degree in health care related field preferred. -Understands the growth and development needs of the patient, and integrates the family/support system into patient care as appropriate.

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Benefits

-Saint Anthony Hospital offers competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits program for employees and their families.

About Saint Anthony Hospital

-Evolved from a local faith-based clinic into a full acute-care community hospital. -Delivers high-quality, cost-effective services consistently ranking in Illinois’ top hospital percentiles. -Offers Level I trauma, pediatric emergency care, stroke center, and primary stroke designations. -Provides acute care, psychiatric inpatient/outpatient programs, dual-diagnosis support, prenatal education, and community wellness outreach. -Specializes in emergency and trauma response, psychiatric and behavioral health, and comprehensive maternal and newborn care. -Recognized as a community children’s hospital with expertise in perinatal care. -Pioneers community wellness through social services, language access, and culturally tailored mental-health groups. -Collaborates with medical schools and health systems, blending academic research with grassroots care.

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