Psychiatric Technician

Company:	Advocate Health Care
Location:	Huntersville, NC, USA
Type:	Part-Time
Salary:	$19.45 - $29.2

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required
• CPI certification required within 90 days of hire date
• BLS required per policy guidelines
• Good therapeutic communication skills required

Responsibilities

• Observes, reports, and documents signs and symptoms or changes in patient behavior to charge nurse
• Interacts with patients therapeutically
• Assists, initiates, and participates in social and recreational activities, group therapy, patient teaching groups, and other group activities
• Uses CPI techniques appropriately
• Makes rounds on assigned patients at least every half hour during shift
• Demonstrates flexibility in changing workload
• Responds to patients with empathy, maintaining their dignity and confidentiality
• Participates in unit-based process improvement activities
• Participates in unit-based committees
• May include on-call duties as requested by administration
• All mandatory training as per facility policy

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• Relevant patient care experience in a hospital setting preferred

Benefits

• No benefits info provided.

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