Lead Mental Health Tech

Internal Candidates Only

The MHT Behavioral Specialist is responsible for providing direct patient care to all patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders; to support the therapeutic milieu; to ensure the safety and well-being of these patients while providing peer leadership and training to staff.

Essential Duties:

• Trains and mentors new and current MHT's by providing feedback and information on organizational culture, policies, and procedures, task prioritization, and other work-related information.
• Orient new patients and employees to unit, program and milieu.
• Participates in and leads activities which enhance professional growth and development of self and peers.
• Attends meetings with senior leadership to provide insight, feedback and solutions to issues and concerns.
• Participate in treatment planning by helping identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths; suggesting modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior.
• Participate in implementing patients' treatment plans by monitoring patients' progress, communicating information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team.
• Maintains communication with patient, family members, and referral sources in patients' interest.
• Co-facilitates didactic, educational, and community groups encouraging and facilitating patients' participation.
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