Mental Health Technician/Driver - Outpatient

The Mental Health Technician/Driver 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:

• Accompanies and transports patients as assigned
• Responsible for safely transporting patients to and from Desert Parkway Behavioral Healthcare Hospital
• Responsible for complying with all Federal, State, and Local traffic laws
• Maintains the cleanliness of the company vehicle
• Maintains a good rapport with patients
• Assists with phone calls to patients to confirm driving times and dates
• Monitors patients' progress and communicates information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team Encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities
• Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients
• Participates in maintaining the therapeutic setting, enforces the CPI system or other methods of behavior management
• Carries out clerical and administrative assignment to support patient care, program, and organization operations
• Helps identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths
• Suggests modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior
• Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment.
• Orients new patients to facility, program, and setting
• Schedule is Monday - Friday, 9:00AM - 5:30PM

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED
• Previous experience working with youth required
• Valid Driver's license and insurance required
• Experience with therapeutic limit-setting helpful or an understanding of level systems or other behavior management modalities helpful
• Ability to maintain professional boundaries

Benefits

Benefits package is available the first of the month following just one (1) month of employment!

Desert Parkway offers competitive benefits to include:

• Health Insurance (three plans to chose from) - full time employees only
• Dental insurance (two plans to choose from)
• Vision insurance
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Healthcare spending account
• Dependent care spending account
• PTO Plan with holiday premium pay
• Discounted cafeteria meal plan
• Life insurance (including plans for spouse and children)
• Short- and long-term disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)
• Pet Insurance
• Identity Theft Insurance