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BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN

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Auto req ID
112197BR
Duke Entity
DUKE HOSPITAL
Job Code
4007 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN
Job Description
Occupational Summary

Perform a variety of routine activities to provide physical and psychological care to patients with psychiatric disorders.Work Performed

  • Observe patients and assesses progress on daily basis;
  • Report significant changes in patients' condition and/or behavior to supervising RN.
  • Interact with patients on a one to one basis providing recreational or social activities and reinforce patient teaching.
  • Assist patients in activities of daily living including making beds, bathing, personal hygiene, feeding and dressing.
  • Assist patients with position changes, range of motion exercises, transfers and walking.
  • Provide care and monitoring of patients in seclusion and/or restraint.
  • Provide protection and control for patients as required to ensure patient safety in the facility.
  • Participate in restraining combative patients as necessary.
  • Ensure compliance with safety and infection control guidelines including universal precautions for self and patients.
  • Participate in staff discussions to assess, coordinate and execute patient care.
  • Maintain a clean, neat and safe work environment; activities may include but not be limited to tidying room, cleaning equipment, changing  bed linens, restocking work areas, keeping rooms and hallways clear of debris, etc.
  • Practice proper safety techniques in accordance with hospital and departmental policies and procedures: immediately reports any mechanical electrical equipment malfunctions, unsafe conditions, or employee/patient/visitor injuries to manager.
  • Participate in review of activities and processes for work area;
  • Assist in implementing changes to effect continual improvement in services provided; comply with regulatory and legal requirements.
  • Assist in organizing and conducting recreational activities.
  • Interact with patients on a one to one as well as small group basis;
  • Assist patients in planning how the treatment plan can be optimally utilized for their benefit.
  • Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.
  • Knowledge Skills and Abilities

    Knowledge of:
  • Special procedures that are applicable to work performed
  • Procedures and techniques involved in administering routine treatments to patients.
  • Sanitation, personal hygiene, infection control, and basic health and safety precautions applicable to work in a health care environment.Knowledge of specimen collection, storage and transport.
  • Behavioral principles and individual responses to stressors.
  • Ability to:
  • Establish and maintain effective working relationships with patients and hospital staff.
  • Work with, express sensitivity and understanding, and secure the cooperation of patients, including maintaining sympathetic attitude towards patients. 
  • Keep calm in stressful situations.
  • Maintain routine records and prepare reports.
  • Recognize patients in emergency states and seek appropriate assistance.
  • Maintain confidentiality and other patient rights.
  • Understand, follow and communicate/relate oral and written instructions and pertinent information accurately.Ability to apply proper body mechanics and safety.individuals in didactic or recreational groups.
  • Level Characteristics

    N/A
    Location
    Durham
    Requisition Number
    401582267
    Position Title
    BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN
    Shift
    Rotating
    Job Family Level
    C1
    Full Time / Part Time
    FULL TIME
    Regular / Temporary
    Regular
    Department Name
    WILLIAMS
    Minimum Qualifications
    Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employercommitted to providing employment opportunity without regard to anindividual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, genderidentity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex,sexual orientation, or veteran status.
    Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation,creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robustexchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity ofour perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achievethis exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feelsecure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals arerespected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our communityhave a responsibility to uphold these values.
    Essential Physical Job Functions:Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System mayinclude essential job functions that require specific physical and/ormental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests forreasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

    Education

    Graduation from high school or GED.

    Experience

    At least 2 years of experience working with groups of patients in aninpatient setting or specialized experience with a predominate diagnosiscluster of the patients served.

    Degrees, Licensures, Certifications

    Listing on the Nurse Aid Registry of North Carolina,orCertification as a Substance Abuse Counselor in North Carolina,orCertification as an Emergency Medical Technician in North Carolina,OrCertification as a Behavioral Health Technician by The Academy ofAddiction Professionals or American Medical Certification AssociationIf not currently listed Listing on the Nurse Aid Registry of NorthCarolina, must complete within 1 year of employment.BCLS certification must be maintained/completed by the end of new hireorientation, which typically takes place during the first week ofemployment.CPI certification strongly preferredMeet DUHS credential to perform analysis of blood glucose from fingersticks and report findings to nurse. Complete quality control measuresfor this equipment. Participate in specimen collection according to testrequested. Is responsible for patient identification, specimen labeling,and collection verification. Instruct patients in collection andpreservation of urine, sputum and stool samples for analysis. Obtain andrecord vital signs, intake and output amounts or other measures asdelegated within 90 days of employment.

    Organization

    Read our Diversity Profile History

    Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.Duke Campus

    As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

    Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.

    Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

    Mission Statement

    Duke Science"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'

    “To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.Duke Meeting

     “By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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