Mental Health Technician I 2 South Adult Psych/CD Ages 18 Nights Full Time

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Mental Health Technician I, 2 South Adult Psych/CD Ages 18 , Nights, Full Time','Full-time','Clinical Support','7p-7a','7p-7a','72','72','Occasional','Occasional','KENTUCKY-LOUISVILLE-OUR LADY OF PEACE-LOUISVILLE','','!*!Our Lady of Peace recently celebrated being named one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky for 2016! We are one of the country’s largest private, non-profit psychiatric/mental health hospitals. The facility offers the most comprehensive array of psychiatric treatment and substance abuse services in the state, including specialized programs and services along the full continuum of care, including inpatient, partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient programming for all ages, including children, adolescents, and adults. We offer competitive benefits for all FT or PT positions.
Our Lady of Peace is currently hiring for a Mental Health Technician.
The Mental Health Tech provides delegated components of nursing care to patients including monitoring, specimen collection, psycho-education, assistance with activities of daily living and behavior management in accordance with physician orders and established nursing policies and procedures. Care provided is based on defined standards of patient care and practice.

Essential Duties:
• Assumes personal responsibility for maintaining professional development and practice, any certification or credentialing, and education.
• Observes and monitors patient’s status according to patient monitoring standards, policies and procedures. This includes completion of vital signs, weight log, intake and output, dietary intake, rounds sheets, behavioral rounds sheets, narrative logs and admission checklists or other progress or milieu notes. Reports patient complaints of pain or other concerns in a timely manner.
• Provides verbal and written input to nursing staff via ongoing reporting and end of shift report so patient’s needs and care can be prioritized.
• Demonstrates proficiency and skill in providing care to patients; orienting to unit, transport; de-escalation; teaching of coping skills, conflict resolution, problem solving skills; specimen collection; assistance with activities of daily living; admission & discharge procedures, response to codes; use of SCM techniques.
• Demonstrates effective on-going observations and evaluation of patient/family response to the interventions; reports changes in condition to the nurse assigned.
• Demonstrates the ability to co-leads patient psycho-educational groups on the unit as well as provide care in a manner that is consistent with Personal Intervention Plans used on the specialty units. Takes initiative to ensure that active treatment is occurring on their unit as scheduled.
• Other duties as assigned.','!*!Education / Accreditation / Licensure (required & preferred):
High School or GED, 60 college credit hours in a social services field or Bachelor’s degree in social services field.
Healthcare Provider/Basic Life Support required.

Effective September 1, 2017, current BLS through the
American Heart Association,
or a previously approved provider, will be required before employment.

Able to complete Safe Crisis Management and perform Safe Crisis Management techniques required.

Experience (required and preferred):
2 years of social services experience with 1 year in direct patient care experience required.
Or
If 60 college credit hours, 1 year of direct patient care experience required.
Or
If Bachelor’s degree in social services field, direct patient care experience preferred.
*For those hired after November 14, 2016, KentuckyOne Health will verify education required by the position, through primary source verification, prior to beginning employment. Education verification will also include the collection of a high school diploma or equivalent, transcript, or other written validation of education.','We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.','2017-R0133157','KentuckyOne Health','Mental Health Technician I, 2 South Adult Psych/CD Ages 18 , Nights, Full Time

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