Behavioral Health Technician III
Full-time Nights (7p-7a)
Woodland Springs, part of Lifepoint Behavioral Health, a nationally known healthcare organization with a diversified delivery network with facilities from coast to coast, seeks passionate, patient-centric, and goal-oriented team members to join our team. We specialize in compassionate behavioral health services, including crisis stabilization, inpatient care, and outpatient treatment for acute mental health and substance use treatment. Our philosophy is built on a psychosocial model of care to decrease suicide rates, decrease addiction-related deaths, reverse the decline in life expectancy, and improve productivity in the communities we serve. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, and flexible scheduling so you can focus on what really matters-providing quality patient care. Join our team in Conroe, Texas, to build a career that touches lives.
Benefits:
- Affordable medical, dental and vision plans provided to meet the needs of full employees and their families
- Up to 16 days of PTO for full-time employees
- 6 paid holidays and 2 floating holidays for full time employees
- Tuition reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Flexible spending and health savings accounts
What you will do in this role:
- Observe and maintain a safe environment through regular patient checks, safety monitoring, contraband searches, and one€‘on€‘one supervision as needed.
- Perform delegated nursing tasks such as taking vital signs, collecting specimens, documenting care, assisting with group education, and monitoring patients.
- Promote a positive therapeutic milieu and accompany patients to meals, breaks, off€‘unit visits, and appointments.
- Report medical or psychiatric changes to the RN and assist with admissions, belongings inventory, and vital signs.
- Document patient property at admission and discharge and conduct unit safety checks each shift.
- Encourage or assist patients with activities of daily living and facilitate or co€‘facilitate psychoeducational and therapeutic groups.
- Apply crisis intervention and de€‘escalation techniques and maintain current knowledge of program policies and procedures.
- Provide orientation and mentorship to new staff, serve as a preceptor, and train colleagues on group facilitation and therapeutic practices.
- Serve as an instructor for trainings such as CPI/HWC, CPR, and new€‘hire or annual competencies and develop guides for group presentations with appropriate approvals.
- Participate on hospital committees, lead process improvement projects, and attend continuing education programs for behavioral health technicians.
- Employ therapeutic communication, perform psychotherapeutic interventions based on care plans, assess patient needs related to chemical dependency, and document plans of care from admission through discharge.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- High school degree preferred.
- Previous experience in a psychiatric health care facility, with direct experience working with chemical dependency, dual diagnosis, psychiatric and geriatric
- patients preferred.
- Will require valid driver's license and a favorable Motor Vehicle Report (MVR), along with proof of insurance when using personal or hospital owned vehicle.
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CPR certification and Crisis Prevention Training (CPI) within 30 days of employment and prior to any patient contact.
Must be at least 21 years of age.
Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.