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Mental Health Technician (Full Time and Part Time)
Desert Parkway Behavioral Healthcare Hospital
Las Vegas, nevada
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 ...