Mental Health Technician/Driver - Outpatient

The Mental Health Technician/Driver provides direct patient care to patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, supports a therapeutic setting and ensures the safety and well-being of patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Accompanies and transports patients as assigned
• Responsible for safely transporting patients to and from Desert Parkway Behavioral Healthcare Hospital
• Responsible for complying with all Federal, State, and Local traffic laws
• Maintains the cleanliness of the company vehicle
• Maintains a good rapport with patients
• Assists with phone calls to patients to confirm driving times and dates
• Monitors patients' progress and communicates information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team Encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities
• Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients
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This position is full-time.

The Outpatient Mental Health Technician/Driver is responsible for providing direct patient care and transportation services to all patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, support the therapeutic milieu in group settings and ensure the safety and well-being of these patients.

Typical responsibilities are:

• Transporting patients to and from the hospital and set locations in a van or bus as scheduled.
• Provides input during shift report.
• Maintains communication with patient, family members, and referral sources in patients' interest
• Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment and during transport
• Participate in maintaining the therapeutic milieu on the unit, enforces the level system or other methods of behavior management.
• Maintain patient, program, department, and related documentation.
• Orient new patients to unit,...

The Mental Health Technician/Driver provides direct patient care to patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, supports a therapeutic setting and ensures the safety and well-being of patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Accompanies and transports patients as assigned
• Responsible for safely transporting patients to and from Desert Parkway Behavioral Healthcare Hospital
• Responsible for complying with all Federal, State, and Local traffic laws
• Maintains the cleanliness of the company vehicle
• Maintains a good rapport with patients
• Assists with phone calls to patients to confirm driving times and dates
• Monitors patients' progress and communicates information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team Encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities
• Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients
...

The Mental Health Technician/Driver provides direct patient care to patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, supports a therapeutic setting and ensures the safety and well-being of patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Accompanies and transports patients as assigned
• Responsible for safely transporting patients to and from Desert Parkway Behavioral Healthcare Hospital
• Responsible for complying with all Federal, State, and Local traffic laws
• Maintains the cleanliness of the company vehicle
• Maintains a good rapport with patients
• Assists with phone calls to patients to confirm driving times and dates
• Monitors patients' progress and communicates information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team Encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities
• Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients
...

The Mental Health Technician provides direct patient care to patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, supports a therapeutic setting and ensures the safety and well-being of patients.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Helps identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths
• Suggests modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior
• Provides input into discharge planning
• Monitors patients' progress and communicates information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team Encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities
• Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment.
• Orients new patients to facility, program, and setting
• Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and functioning level
• Maintains a safe,...