Behavioral Health Tech - Nights

It's more than a career, it's a calling

MO-SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

·         Department: Behavioral Health - 4 West

·         Schedule: Full Time, Night Shift​

·         Starting Pay: $15.40+

·         Shift Differentials: Available for night, weekend, and additional shifts​

·         Location: Saint Louis University Hospital (SLUH)

Our mission and values put the patient first and helps you to feel valued while respecting teamwork and collaboration.  Our Behavior Tech roles are an integral piece in our care team and we see it as a partnership.  At SSM Health, we know the healing power of presence begins with compassionate people like you.

Daily Pay:  Get paid daily doing the work you love in a way that fits your life.  At SSM Health, we believe you deserve the flexibility to work a schedule that fits your life and to get paid when you need it.

Job Summary:

The Psychiatric Technician I establishes a therapeutic relationship with assigned patients and facilitates the maintenance of the therapeutic environment in the psychiatric unit. Under the direction and supervision of the professional nurse, he/she gives bedside nursing care to all types of patients according to standards of nursing care and assists in maintaining order and cleanliness within the unit.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

POSITION ACCOUNTABILITIES AND PERFORMANCE

Essential Functions:  The following are essential job accountabilities and performance criteria:

Position Accountabilities

1) Performs general patient care as it relates to the patient's physical needs under the direction of the RN.  (1, 3, 5, 6, 8) 40%

Criteria

A) Follows established policies and procedures in providing direct patient care.

1. Takes patient's vital signs, temperature, and weight.

2. Performs procedures as directed, including blood draws.

3. Assists patients with activities of daily living.

B) Initiates and plans for provision of patient comfort and hygiene measures.

C) Makes frequent rounds on all patients noting condition, requests, and environment.

1. Rounds are to be made at least every 30 minutes on all patients. Patients with special precautions ordered (suicide, elopement and close observation) rounds are every 15 minutes.

D) Assists with admission, discharge, and transfer of patients.

E) Performs pre- and post-ECT care as directed.

2) Communicates effectively on behalf of patients and/or unit concerns.  (1, 3, 5, 6) 25%

Criteria

A) Obtains report from professional nurse and informs nurse of changes in patient's condition.

B) Documents all patient observations concisely and legibly on chart forms according to chart form guidelines.

1. Include general mood, affect, level of orientation, appetite, sleep, behavior, physical problems, communications of consequence to the patient's progress, etc. and nursing care interventi