BH Technician - Adolescent - Days

Job Summary: The BH Technician II assists and performs basic patient care in a psychiatric treatment environment. This position performs a variety of paraprofessional nursing duties in providing care to psychiatric patients and directly reports to the RN.

Essential Job Functions & Accountabilities:

• Assists in the delivery of direct patient care as assigned by the nurse, reporting and documenting results including vital signs and specimens.
• Assists in maintaining a therapeutic milieu with professional behavior and communication by engaging patients in groups and reporting patient participation and needs to the nurses and interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Assists with admission, dismissal, and transfer of patients and checks the patient property and secures valuables according to policy and procedures.
• Assists patients in activities of daily living, engages with patients utilizing individual's coping/treatment plan to attend to their needs and provides assistance in non-aggressive crisis management.
• Assists in maintaining patient safety by utilizing non-aggressive patient management and environmental rounds.
• Escorts patients within the facility, to other departments, to outside activities; transports patients in a van as needed.
• Maintains patient confidentiality at all times on or off premises.
• Completes hand-off communication with nurses and other staff when coming on and off the unit to ensure patient safety and monitoring.
• Maintains close observation as ordered by the physician and documentation completed according to departmental policy and procedures. Evaluates, records, and provides for the day-to-day needs of mentally, emotionally, and/or developmentally disabled patients.
• Maintains cleanliness of the unit in collaboration with the housekeeping department.
• Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned.