# Behavioral Health Technician

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Intermountain Health LDS Hospital
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $18.94 - $24.62
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Behavioral Health Technician participates in patient care as part of a multi-disciplinary treatment team at Intermountain Health LDS Hospital.

The role involves providing direct patient care by establishing rapport with patients and creating a therapeutic environment.

**Essential Functions**

- Assist patients with daily living tasks and perform delegated patient care procedures accurately and in a timely manner.

- Monitor patient vital signs and provide limited medical intervention under the direction of a healthcare professional.

- Orient patients to the Behavioral Health unit, inventory belongings, and transport patients to appointments or activities.

- Demonstrate effective interpersonal relations and communication skills with co-workers, patients, families, and other personnel.

- Maintain a safe, consistent, and supportive environment by providing care according to the multidisciplinary treatment plan.

- Participate in regulatory activities, report changes in patient condition, and address potential problems with quality of care.

- Manage patient behavior, work with physically and mentally aggressive patients, and respond efficiently in emergency situations.

- Complete mandatory education assignments, demonstrate clinical proficiency, and maintain corporate standards.

**Benefits**

- Generous benefits package covering programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.

**Requirements**

- Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providers.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- CNA or EMT.

- Post-high school education in social work, psychology, sociology, family studies, or a health sciences field.

- Experience working with psychiatric and/or chemically dependent patients.

**Physical Requirements**

- Ongoing need for employees to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.

- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employees to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.

- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.

- Expected to lift and utilise full range of movement to transfer patients.

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## Skills

### Required
- Patient Safety
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Skill Development
- Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
- Patient Care
- Accurate and Timely Documentation
- Time Management

### Nice to have
- CNA
- EMT
- social work
- psychology
- sociology
- family studies
- health sciences

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