Mental Health Technician (MHT) Psychiatry Nights

Houston Behavioral Healthcare Hospital is currently recruiting for Fulltime Mental Health Technicians. Shift is from 7pm-7:30am with rotating weekends.

HBHH is seeking MHT's to deliver quality psychiatric care to patients who are hospitalized with psychiatric/emotional disorders. To provide 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.

Duties:

• Serves as a role model for all Mental Health Technicians and provides on the job training to newly hired staff.
• Orients patients to the unit, takes admission vital signs and records on the Nursing Assessment Form.
• Escorts patients when leaving the unit for activities, visitation, meals and scheduled tests. Always performs a count prior to moving patients, comparing and assuring rounds sheets are with the patients.
• Participate in maintaining the therapeutic milieu on the unit, enforces the level system or other methods of behavior management.
• Able to assist with restraint (physical hold) of a patient, placing a patient in seclusion under the direction of the RN and utilizing SAMA techniques and adherence to policy and procedures.
• Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and developmental level.
• Safety rounds will be completed on time and patient will be visuali