BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN
- Employer
- Duke University
- Location
- Durham
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
112197BR
Duke Entity
DUKE HOSPITAL
Job Code
4007 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN
Job Description
Occupational SummaryPerform a variety of routine activities to provide physical and psychological care to patients with psychiatric disorders.Work Performed
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
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.
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
"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.
“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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