Job description

Mental Health Technician
As Mount Sinai grows, so does our legacy of caring
Located in the heart of Miami Beach, overlooking the breathtaking intracoastal waterway, Mount Sinai Medical Center is dedicated to providing exceptional health care to our diverse community enhanced through innovation, technology, teaching, and research.
Mount Sinai is South Florida's largest private independent not-for-profit hospital with 672 beds, and a tight-knit community of more than 4,000 employees.
We provide world-class care:

• Named one of America's 250 Best Hospitals for 2020 and 2021 by Healthgrades, positioning Mount Sinai among the top 5% of hospitals in the nation for overall clinical excellence.
• A pioneer in innovative medical research in areas such as cardiology, cancer, memory disorders and pulmonary diseases
• The BEST cardiac surgery survival rate in Florida
• A new seven-story Surgical Tower with 154 all-private rooms and patient centered technology promotes an exceptional patient experience

Position Responsibilities:

• Provides basic level of psychiatric nursing care including taking and documenting vital signs, weight, height, abdominal girth; assists with all aspects of direct patient care including providing personal care and hygiene, blood glucose testing, administering treatments and enemas
• Observes and documents patient's condition and behavior and reports significant changes including observed side effects of medications to the appropriate authority ; observes a variety of clinical problems and handles the less complex within the limits of knowledge and authority
• Participates actively in interdisciplinary meetings and assists in developing, implementing, evaluating, revising and documenting interdisciplinary treatment plans; provides feedback concerning patient responses, problems, and progress; provides alternative plans for patients who are deemed inappropriate for typical groups offered
• Organizes, schedules, and facilitates individual and group therapy, education, training, leisure, and/ or recreational activities to deal constructively with patients' emotional, psychological and behavioral problems
• Collaborates with other disciplines in facilitating programming activities
• Maintains and updates patients' records and prepares behavioral and assessment summary reports to provide accurate current information on patients' problems and progress on the unit and in specific therapy and programming activities
• Confers with the treatment team and patient's family as applicable to provide current direct observation reports and information updates
• Meets with the patients to identify treatment needs and orients patients to unit programming groups and activities
• Maintains therapeutic communication with patient
• Gives re-direction and/or reality re-orientation as needed
• Takes admitting psychiatric histories and assists in on-going treatment
• Maintains a safe and therapeutic patient environment
• Performs and documents patient safety rounds/ room checks following unit policy and procedure
• Monitors for suicide/ homicide/elopement behaviors and reports them to RN immediately
• Responds to codes calmly and professionally
• Adheres to the principles of non-violent crisis intervention when dealing with aggressive patients
• Assists in placing patient in seclusion/ restraint and observes suicide/ seclusion precaution
• Provides care to patients in seclusion/ restraint including but not limited to: 1
• Using standard precaution2
• Complying with monitoring requirements as per policy and procedure3
• Offering food, fluids and assisting with elimination needs4
• Maintaining patient privacy
• Assists with transport, transfer, and discharge of patient including the care of personal property and labeling
• Accompany patients to Baker Act court as necessary
• Conducts patient belonging inventory upon admission and documents in the appropriate form
• Checks packages brought in by visitors
• Advises RN when contraband are found during inventory
• Recognizes signs and symptoms of withdrawal from alcohol or other substances and reports to RN
• Attends at least 75% of scheduled departmental meetings and in-service programs
• Performs other works as assigned

Benefits:
We believe in the physical and mental well-being of our employees and are committed to offering comprehensive benefits that fit their personal needs. Our robust employee benefits package includes:

• Health benefits
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability coverage
• Healthcare spending accounts
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Wellness program
• On-site housing for selected positions and more!

Mental Health Technician

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Day shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Miami Beach, FL: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

• Are you willing to work every other weekend and rotational holidays?

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• BLS Certification (Preferred)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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