Job Description
Wekiva Springs Center is seeking a hospitality driven Mental Health Tech to aide in the care of our patients' for both day shift and night shift.We offer:Higher pay for current C.N.A or Bachelor's degree Generous PTO after 90 days Up to $1,500 tuition reimbursement after the first year An array of insurances to meet your needs 3 day work week Paid life insurance policy 401 K with up to 4% match This is an opportunity to join a team that is growing and strengthening on a daily basis.You can expect to be treated with dignity and respect while earning a highly competitive salary plus generous shift differentials.Our shifts for techs are from 7:00 - 7:30.Ideally, candidates will have a degree or Certification.If not, we look for at least 3 years of experience as a Mental Health tech or 1 year as a corpsman.Qualifications Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.Ability to write documentation of patients behavior, document clinical records that include Q15 quality checks, and routine reports and correspondence.Also, Employee must have the ability to speak effectively to acute mental health and addiction patients, their family members, physicians and other treatment staff before groups of people or employees of organization, and individually.Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or illustrative form.Also has the ability to deal with problems involving acute mental health patients and able to verbally de-escalate patients and remain calm in stressful situations when necessary.Discern when a situation within the unit is becoming escalated with a patient or patients.Able to communicate these concerns to other treatment staff members.Obtain vital signs, administer Oxygen, administer UDS test, administer UCG test, and perform ECG testing only when specifically trained for Assist in all patient's Activity of Daily Living.Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand for long period of times, walk, and occasionally sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.Employee must be able to assist with physically restraining a patient when necessary.Also, may be exposed to second hand smoke during smoke break time with patients.May be exposed to weather conditions include heat outdoors while monitoring patients who are participating in their break time in designated courtyards.The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally up to 75 pounds.Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.Job Type:Full-time Pay:From $16.00 per hour Work Location:In person.