Mental Health Technician

Essential Functions (Principal Duties and Job Responsibilities):

• Assists with supervised group therapy sessions, recreational activities, and occupational therapy sessions.

• Escorts clients on excursions, clinic visits, personal, business or other appointments as assigned
• Ensures clients are sufficiently monitored and supervised at all times during work shift.
• Assists with new client orientation to ensure full understanding of program rules/procedures within twenty-four hours of their arrival.
• Respects and protects client’s rights and confidentiality.  Ensures clients respect the rights of others by appropriately intervening and/or reporting when program rule violations occur.
• Attends all appropriate client care conferences and staff meetings and participates in funding agency training activities as required.
• Be courteous, tactful, and discrete in relating to the public, other staff, and clients.
• Maintains records and required paperwork in compliance with agency standards.
• Assists in the collection and reporting of statistical data to funding and other agencies as required.
• Receives and give verbal client condition reports at the beginning and end of respective work shifts.
• Contributes to Process Improvement/Project Teams as assigned.
• Documents problems carrying out job responsibilities; Critical incidents occurring with any client regardless of assignment during each shift on duty (include all unit rule violations); Any information needing to be passed on to subsequent shifts in order for them to efficiently carry out client goals and; observations made during random room checks during consumer's bedtime, if applicable.
• Perform basic housekeeping duties (maintaining a clean work area) as assigned by supervisor.  This will include coordination with housekeeping to clean client rooms after their discharge (beds stripped and washed, restrooms cleaned, bedroom area cleaned.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Education and Experience Required:

• A high school diploma or GED
• A minimum of one year of experience in a health care setting or have completed college courses in a health care-related field.
• Must obtain and maintain a valid Tennessee For-Hire (F endorsement). Driving record cannot contain items that prohibit or inflate the cost of insuring a driver.

Education and Experience Preferred:

• Experience in working with patients with substance use disorders.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support Certification is preferred. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail and organizational ability.
• Bilingual (Spanish).