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:

• Assists in identifying patients' problems, needs, and strengths
• Suggests modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior
• Provides input into discharge planning
• Monitors patients' progress
• 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, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients
• Participates in maintaining the therapeutic setting on the unit, enforces the CPI system or other methods of behavior management
• Carries out clerical and administrative assignment to support patient care, program, and organization operations