Monitor Tech-Mental Health, PRN - UofL Health
Louisville, KY
About the Job
Overview
Job Posting Title: Mental Health Monitoring Technician
We are Hiring at UofL Peace Hospital
Location: 2020 Newburg Road Louisville, KY 40205
About Us
Peace Hospital, part of UofL Health, is a private, non-profit behavioral health hospital. One of the largest behavioral health facilities in the nation, Peace Hospital is known for providing care for children, adolescents, adults and senior adults, age 55 and older. Our Kosair for Kids Children’s Peace Center is the largest and most comprehensive private provider of youth inpatient behavioral health services in the country treating children and adolescents with behavioral health and co-occurring disorders. We have a partial hospitalization program for school-aged children and an inpatient specialty program for children and adolescents who have complex treatment needs, such as intellectual or developmental disabilities accompanied by acute behavioral and psychiatric symptoms. UofL Health is home to over 14,000 team members, 1000+ providers, 200+ practice locations, 9 hospitals, and 4 medical centers.
Our Mission
As an academic health care system, we will transform the health of the communities we serve through compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care.
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive Pay & Benefits Options
- Paid Vacation, Sick days, and Holidays
- Free tuition to UofL for Part- and Full-time employees for Child/Spouse/Domestic Partner
- 401K with Employer Match
The Mental Health Monitoring Technician is responsible for monitoring, documenting, and notifying the appropriate persons of any suspicious, dangerous, unusual behaviors, and situations. The Mental Health Monitoring Technician will also be responsible for calling emergency codes and directly monitoring patients on units.
Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
•Assumes personal responsibility for maintaining professional development and practice, any certification or credentialing, and education, as required.•Follows processes for placing patients on video monitoring per doctor’s orders.•Observes monitors continuously for behaviors indicated based on ordering MD’s precautions when monitoring behaviors remotely (versus in person)•Reports behaviors to nurse on unit for immediate interventions•Initiates calls to units each shift to obtain locations of patients being monitored and behaviors for which patients are being monitored.•Notifies Nurse, Risk department, House Manager and/or Manager as appropriate when safety and quality concerns are present.•Attends in-service educations/Healthstream modules to update skills and knowledge.•Documents calls to units, emergency codes paged overhead and seclusion/restraints events.
Qualifications
Education:•High school diploma or GED/Equivalent (required)
Experience:•Two (2) years of social services experience (required), with one (1) year in mental health direct patient care (preferred)
Certification:•Prevent First Module plus observe NVCI‐APS & Seclusion/Restraint (required)