BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN (Over Nights)

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Behavioral Health Technician | Thursday–Saturday Overnights
7:00 p.m.–7:30 a.m. | Three shifts per week

Eligible overnight hours include shift differential pay, in accordance with company policy, subject to change.

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Position Summary:

This position provides delegated clinical and supportive services under the supervision and clinical oversight of licensed behavioral health professionals and nursing staff. The Behavioral Health Technician assists patients in accordance with treatment, service, or recovery plans; applicable Arizona law; facility policies and procedures; and the employee's demonstrated training and competency. The role supports a comprehensive team approach to patient care and serves as a liaison between nursing staff and patients in carrying out approved plans of care.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

- Provides basic patient care including technical monitoring, recording vital signs and physical care. Assists with patient orientation to treatment plan and care. Monitors patient activity, physical and mental status and reports to nursing staff. Inspects patient belongings for prohibited items.

- Assists in providing safe and orderly care environment. Maintains patient advocacy through observation and reporting behaviors, communications, and physical status.

- Recognizes patients exhibiting aggressive behavior, presenting a danger to themselves or others, or experiencing a crisis or medical emergency. Uses approved crisis response and de-escalation techniques and provides interventions, including redirection and participation in restraint or seclusion, as authorized, trained, and directed by licensed clinical or nursing staff.

- Observes and interacts with patients and families and communicates relevant information to licensed clinical or nursing staff. Provides trauma-informed and recovery-oriented care that promotes dignity, independence, strengths, privacy, choice, resiliency, and patient engagement while maintaining professional boundaries.

- Implements assigned portions of patient treatment, service, or recovery plans and provides supportive coaching, skills reinforcement, and recovery-oriented interventions consistent with the plan of care, training, delegation, and supervision.

- Maintains patient confidentiality and complies with HIPAA, Arizona law, facility policies, professional ethics, and established standards regarding appropriate boundaries.

- Performs only those clinical and supportive functions that are properly delegated, within demonstrated training and competency, authorized by facility policy, and carried out under appropriate clinical supervision and oversight.

- Provides optimal care by maintaining skill set related to symptoms and treatment of behavioral disorders relevant to treatment practices in accordance with State regulations. Maintains knowledge of prescribed medications for the patient group with side effects and contraindications.

- Assists with admission, discharge, and transfer activities and accurately completes documentation and clerical activities related to patient care in the medical record, in accordance with confidentiality, compliance, and facility requirements.

- Completes rounds (Q15s) on patients every fifteen minutes.

- Must be able to move and respond quickly to Codes (staff support, violent situations/interventions, and medical emergencies).

- Performs other functions assigned by a registered nurse, licensed behavioral health professional, or the Chief Nursing Officer, provided the duties are consistent with the employee's training, demonstrated competency, authorized delegation, applicable law, and facility policy.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:

This position has no supervisory or managerial responsibilities.

COMPETENCIES:

- Technical aptitude.

- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

- Ethical conduct.

- Ability to perform tasks independently.

- Maintains professional boundaries, ethical conduct, confidentiality, and regulatory compliance.

- Applies trauma-informed, recovery-oriented, and de-escalation principles in patient interactions.

- Demonstrates and maintains competency in all assigned duties through orientation, skills validation, and required ongoing training.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

This job operates in a clinical setting. This role routinely requires interaction with patients, documentation, and utilization of standard office equipment.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Position is direct care/hands-on, physically demanding, and requires agility to stand or be on feet a minimum of 75% of work shift. Ability to exercise self-control in potentially volatile situations such as being verbally or physically confronted in a threatening or aggressive manner; must be able to work and concentrate amidst distractions such as noise, conversation, and foot traffic; ability to handle interruptions often and be able to move from one task to another; must be flexible and not easily frustrated in dealing with differences of opinions.

Position is not sedentary and requires ability to walk at a fast pace, stand, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, push, pull, lift up to 35 lbs., grasp, and perceive the attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature, and texture by touching with skin, particularly fingertips. Ability to express and exchange ideas verbally during activities in which detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed accurately, sometimes quickly and loudly. Ability to express and exchange ideas through written assignments effectively and accurately. Hearing is required to perceive the nature of sound with or without correction and to make fine discriminations in sound. Performs repetitive motions with wrists, hands, and fingers.

Must be able to address and prioritize multiple tasks within established timeframes.

TRAVEL:

This position requires no travel.

Qualifications

REQUIRED EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE:

- Must be at least 18 years of age.

- High School Diploma or high school equivalency diploma (GED).

- Must successfully complete all required background checks and maintain any fingerprint clearance card required by law or facility policy.

- Before providing supervised direct services, must complete required training addressing behavioral health system orientation, confidentiality and compliance, professional boundaries and ethics, crisis response and de-escalation, and trauma-informed and recovery-oriented care.

- Must successfully complete orientation and initial and ongoing competency validation for assigned duties and all continuing training required by law or facility policy.

- Current CPR/Basic Life Support and CPI certification required before direct patient interaction and maintained throughout employment.

- Two years behavioral health technician experience preferred.