The Mental Health Technician/Driver provides direct patient care to patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, supports a therapeutic setting and ensures the safety and well-being of patients.
Requirements
- Accompanies and transports patients as assigned
- Maintains the cleanliness of the company vehicle
- Maintains a good rapport with patients
- Assists with phone calls to patients to confirm driving times and dates
- Monitors patients' progress and communicates information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team
- Encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities
- Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients
- Participates in maintaining the therapeutic setting, enforces the CPI system or other methods of behavior management
- Carries out clerical and administrative assignment to support patient care, program, and organization operations
- Helps identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths
- Suggests modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior
- Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment
- Orients new patients to facility, program, and setting
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401K Retirement Plan
- Healthcare spending account
- Dependent care spending account
- PTO Plan with holiday premium pay
- Discounted cafeteria meal plan
- Life insurance (including plans for spouse and children)
- Short- and long-term disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)
- Pet Insurance
- Identity Theft Insurance