Great Opportunities for Behavioral Health Technicians

This role provides basic patient care under the direction of the nursing staff with a focus on patient safety

Love what you do and passsionate about it? Have great sense of empathy? If your answer to these questions is Yes! Then you are at the right place. At Trusted Behavioral Care, we provide individualized intensive impatient treatment for substance abuse, trauma, eating disorders, Sex addiction, co dependancy and mental health issues.

Want to be a part of our amazing team in Arizona? Join us in providing compassionate, patient-centric care that changes lives.

Position Summary for Behavioral Health Technicians

This role provides basic patient care under the direction of the nursing staff with a focus on patient safety. BHTs perform general and specialized data collection, clerical, and administrative duties in support of the program.

• Promotes patient safety through awareness of the environment of care and in all action that involves patient care. Communicates patient safety issues quickly, clearly and effectively
• Performs ongoing observation of the patients and milieu to ensure active treatment is provided and patients are participating
• Intervenes appropriately with patients experiencing a behavioral crisis situation, i.e., suicidal, threatening behavior, elopement and/or other situations, using approved interventions
• Participates with the treatment team in implementation of the individualized plan of care. Reports factors that may impede successful accomplishment of the treatment plan to the Charge Nurse/RN
• Assists in the admission and discharge of patient
• onducts luggage searches for all admits and may conduct room searches as assigned
• Obtains and reports accurate vital sign readings
• Accompanies patients on appointments
• Provides 1:1 and line-of-sight monitoring for patients when order received
• Performs unit clerk duties to include data collection, clerical, and administrative duties, completing all appropriate documentation according to the policies and procedures of the facility