Job Summary: The BH Technician III assists and performs basic patient care in a psychiatric treatment environment. This position performs a variety of paraprofessional nursing duties in providing care to psychiatric patients and directly reports to the RN.

Essential Job Functions & Accountabilities:

1. Assists in the delivery of direct patient care as assigned by the nurse, reporting and documenting results including vital signs and specimens.
2. Assists in maintaining a therapeutic milieu with professional behavior and communication by engaging patients in groups and reporting patient participation and needs to the nurses and interdisciplinary treatment team.
3. Assists with admission, dismissal, and transfer of patients and checks the patient property and secures valuables according to policy and procedures.
4. Assists patients in activities of daily living, engages with patients utilizing individual’s coping/treatment plan to attend to their needs and provides assistance in non-aggressive crisis management.
5. Assists in maintaining patient safety by utilizing non-aggressive patient management and environmental rounds.
6. Escorts patients within the facility, to other departments, to outside activities; transports patients in a van as needed.
7. Maintains patient confidentiality at all times on or off premises.
8. Completes hand-off communication with nurses and other staff when coming on and off the unit to ensure patient safety and monitoring.
9. Maintains close observation as ordered by the physician and documentation completed according to departmental policy and procedures. Evaluates, records, and provides for the day-to-day needs of mentally, emotionally, and/or developmentally disabled patients.
10. Maintains cleanliness of the unit in collaboration with the housekeeping department.
11. Job description is not an all-inclusive list of duties and may be subject to change with or without notice. Staff are expected to perform other duties as assigned.