Mental Health Tech

Night Shift, Full Time

Saint Anthony Hospital is a diverse and community-centric organization your career can thrive in, while addressing the health and wellness challenges that families in our neighborhood face. Our employees deliver on our mission and achieve success by working together to provide excellent customer service and patient care.

As part of Saint Anthony Hospital’s commitment to providing the highest quality health care, we will be building a new state-of-the-art hospital to serve as an anchor to the Focal Point Community Campus. Learn more at focalpointchicago.org.

Position Purpose:

• Provides direct patient care to psychiatric inpatients, including but not limited to, milieu safety/management, individual patient intervention, and monitoring level of functioning. Assists with routine daily tasks on the psychiatric unit and documents these actions.

Essential Functions:

• Completes and documents milieu tasks as assigned by the charge nurse, including patient and milieu monitoring, safety checks, assisting with vital signs, activities of daily living (ADSL's), obtaining lab specimens, and patient transport for tests and procedures. Works to maintain a safe and therapeutic milieu.
• Assists with the admission and discharge process, including completing assigned sections of assessment/admission tools; escorting patients to and from the psychiatric unit; checking for contraband; recording/ storing personal objects and valuables, and orienting the patient to the unit.
• Intervenes with patients and visitors to offer support, information, and limit setting as needed.
• Develops, conducts, and documents clinical group process, including psycho-educational group, process group, focus group, and ongoing education.
• Assists in the development and implementation of the multidisciplinary plan
• Marginal Functions (list in order of importance
• Performs both essential and marginal job functions in a safe manner as identified by Saint Anthony Hospital and the respective department while adhering to the Hospital’s confidentiality norms and standards. Actively and consistently demonstrates the core values of Saint Anthony Hospital in all interactions with others.
• Assumes responsibility for knowing and maintaining established hospital and departmental objectives, policies/procedures including general sanitation, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
• Participates in performance activities including problem identification, data collection, solution selection, implementation, and evaluation. Also assists in the care and maintenance of departmental equipment and supplies as appropriate.
• Participates in staff meetings and other inservices, meetings or committees as required.
• Functions in a cost-conscious manner (i.e. conserving supplies, caring for and maintaining equipment, appropriate billing and charges, etc.).

General Requirements:

• Understands the growth and development needs of the patient, and integrates the family/support system into patient care as appropriate.
• At lease one year of experience in customer service or social support services such as mental health, social service agencies, hospitals or education.
• Some college courses in psychology preferred
• Associates or Bachelors degree in health care related field preferred.
• Experience working with mentally ill preferred
• Excellent social skills.
• Ability to engage in therapeutic conversations with mentally ill or chemically dependent patients.
• Ability to lead groups in psycho-education or recreational activities.
• Able to assist patients with ADL's.
• Ability to take vitals and to do accu-checks.
• Able to deal with conflicted situations and to redirect patients therapeutically.
• Willingness and ability to safely take part in physical restraints if necessary

Saint Anthony Hospital Highlights:

• Saint Anthony Hospital is an independent, nonprofit, faith-based, acute care, community hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellness of families on the West Side and Southwest Side of Chicago.
• Saint Anthony Hospital has been certified as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission.
• Saint Anthony Hospital offers competitive wages and a comprehensive benefits program for employees and their families.
• Saint Anthony Hospital employs and teaches some of the city’s brightest, most innovative resident physicians and medical students.