Job Description
Responsibilities
We are currently hiring PRN Mental Health Technicians For ALL SHIFTS !
Palmetto Summerville Behavioral Health is a residential treatment facility, located in Summerville, South Carolina. We treat children and adolescents, ages 7 to , who require a highly structured and supervised therapeutic environment.
Residents attend programming separately, and are assigned to a group based on functioning level and treatment needs.
The Mental Health Tech provides direct patient care to patients with psychiatric disorders, addictive disease disorders or related substance abuse or chemical dependency problems or those dually diagnosed with psychiatric and chemically dependency disorders;
to ensure the safety and well-being of these patients; to support the maintenance of therapeutic milieu.
Benefits include :
- Challenging and rewarding work environment
- Competitive Compensation
- Career development opportunities within UHS and its + Subsidiaries!
Universal Health Services, Inc. , one of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, has built an impressive record of achievement and performance.
Growing steadily since its inception into an esteemed Fortune corporation, our annual revenues were $.4 billion in 9. In 0, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies byFortune;
in 9, ranked # on the Fortune ; and in 7, listed # inForbesinaugural ranking of America’s Top Public Companies. Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has more than , employees and through its subsidiaries operates acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located in U.
S. states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or Degree in Social Sciences.
- Preferred one year of experience working in a psychiatric inpatient setting with patients aged 7+ or prior experience with youth in a professional environment preferred.
- Well-developed problem solving techniques. Strong display of communication competency. Core ability to provide Service Excellence Skill in verbal de-escalation techniques.
Ability to multi-task in crisis.