REHAB TECHPosition Purpose: Reporting to the Manager Psych & Behavioral Health, the Rehabilitation Technician is an individual contributor that provides an array of supportive services designed to meet the needs of clients who are chronically mentally ill and/or developmentally disabled for the purpose of increasing social skills and rehabilitation back into the community. This work is conducted under the direct supervision of a professional staff member.
Key Job Activities:
• Provides supportive group, individual, and crisis interventions
• Provide interpersonal skills when working with patients, including having compassion and remaining sensitive to their emotional needs when they are in extreme distress or pain.
• Monitoring patients to ensure treatment plans are being followed and that the patient is taking all necessary medication(s)
• Monitors the patient’s medication compliance and facilitates any scheduled medical appointments
• Ensuring patient safety and wellbeing, while remaining dedicated to identifying ways to improve the patient’s health and wellbeing
• Charting patient behavior and documenting any changes in behavior while ensuring that all progress notes meet documentation time guidelines on a 95% basis
• Willing and able to attend Supervision Sessions
• Participates in staff meetings, mandatory and designated in-service training sessions
• Ability to educate patients in group settings and provide various services in the community
• Ability to engage a patient therapeutically to help them learn healthy aspects of interpersonal social skills, hygiene and grooming and teamwork in social settings
• Perform all other duties as assigned
Education and Work Experience:
• High school diploma or GED required; an Associates degree and above are highly preferred.
• 2 – 3 years of experience in leading or co-leading group and or mental health work
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