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Mental Health Technician, Full-Time (Sacramento) at Northern California Behavioral Health System | LAYIQ

Treatment Planning: Participate in treatment planning: (a) helps identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths; (b) suggests modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior; (c) provides input into discharge planning.
Patient Care: Participate in implementing patients' treatment plans by: (a) monitoring patients' progress; (b) communicating information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team; c) maintains communication with patient, family members, and referral sources in patients' interests; (d) co-facilitates didactic, educational, and community groups within the context of the adolescent treatment program; (e) encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities; (f) supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment; (g) provides input during shift report.
Hall Monitor: An important role in the care of the patient includes the assignment as Hall Monitor. The Hall Monitor is responsible for the safety and security of both staff and patients. The Hall Monitor observes the interaction between patients as well as the interactions between staff and patients that occur in the hallway. The Hall Monitor must report all suspicious activity to the appropriate nurse in charge of the unit as soon as possible and also notify unit staff of potential boundary violations.
Patient Attendant: Accompany and transport patients as assigned. Orient new patients to unit, program, and milieu. Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and developmental level. Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients. Participates in maintaining the therapeutic milieu on the unit, enforces the level system or other methods of behavior management.
Patient Records: Maintain patient, program, department, and related documentation. Carry out clerical and administrative assignment to support patient care and department and organization operations.
Training Activities: Complete orientation and competency assessments as required for position. Participate in activities enhancing professional growth and development.
Other Duties: Upholds the Organization's ethics and customer service standards. Performs related duties, as requested.

Education/Licensure
High school, GED, or equivalent required.
Current CPR (or obtained within 60 days of hire).
Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) (or equivalent as approved by CNO) obtained within 60 days of hire.
Knowledge and Experience: High school level reading and writing skills; legible handwriting
Familiarity with medical and psychological terminology and human behavior principles preferred
Basic knowledge of human growth and development helpful
Experience with therapeutic limit-setting helpful or an understanding of level systems or other behavior management modalities helpful
Ability to maintain professional boundaries
Skills and Abilities: Maintains confidentiality of patients at all times
Sensitivity to and willingness to interact with persons of various social, cultural, economic and educational backgrounds.
Skills in teaching or assisting with activities of daily living helpful
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Good judgment, problem-solving and decision-making skills
Ability to work in a fast-paced, expanding environment
Physical Requirements: Ability to exercise self‑control in potentially volatile situations, including being verbally or physically confronted in a threatening or aggressive manner.
Able to work and concentrate amid distractions such as noise, conversation, and foot traffic.
Ability to handle frequent interruptions and shift quickly from one task to another.
Must be flexible and not easily frustrated when dealing with differing opinions.
Ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, and grasp.
Ability to perceive attributes of objects—size, shape, temperature, texture—through touch, particularly with fingertips.
Ability to express and exchange ideas verbally, conveying detailed or important instructions accurately, sometimes quickly and loudly.
Hearing sufficient to perceive sound with no more than 40 dB loss at 500 Hz, 1000 Hz, and 2000 Hz, with or without correction, and to make fine sound discriminations.
Ability to perform repetitive motions with wrists, hands, and fingers.
Ability to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.
Visual acuity (with or without correction) sufficient to complete administrative and clerical tasks and visually observe patients on the unit and in therapeutic activities.
Work is primarily indoors, with minimal exposure to adverse environmental conditions, though occasional temperature changes may occur.

Mental Health Technician, Full-Time (Sacramento)

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