Outpatient Mental Health Technician/Driver - FT

This position is full-time.

The Outpatient Mental Health Technician/Driver is responsible for providing direct patient care and transportation services to all patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, support the therapeutic milieu in group settings and ensure the safety and well-being of these patients.

Typical responsibilities are:

• Transporting patients to and from the hospital and set locations in a van or bus as scheduled.
• Provides input during shift report.
• Maintains communication with patient, family members, and referral sources in patients' interest
• Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment and during transport
• Participate in maintaining the therapeutic milieu on the unit, enforces the level system or other methods of behavior management.
• Maintain patient, program, department, and related documentation.
• Orient new patients to unit,...