Join us as a Mental Health Technician

Available Schedule:

Part Time 16 - Hours, Day Shift, 7:00am-3:30pm, Weekend and Holiday Rotation Required

Full Time 32 - Hours, Day Shift, 7:00am-3:30pm, Weekend and Holiday Rotation Required

As a Mental Health Technician for MiraVista in Holyoke, Massachusetts, you’ll bring your experience and knowledge where your voice matters. A Mental Health Technician is an integral part of our multidisciplinary treatment team. You’ll be working with patients and assisting nursing and clinical services with patient treatment plans. Some of your responsibilities will include assisting with the implementation of treatment plans, including but not limited to documenting goals and interventions.

How You Care for Our Patients

As a Mental Health Technician, you will maintain a safe therapeutic milieu on inpatient psychiatric units. You will also conduct safety checks, monitor patients, assist with ADL’s, de-escalate acute situations, and provide supportive interactions with patients. You’ll make decisions that impact the lives of your peers, your patients, and your community. In exchange, we will care for you, as much as you care for our patients.

How We Care for You

We offer competitive compensation depending on education and years of experience in addition to evening, night or weekend shift differential. Our benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, 401(k), employer paid short term disability (STD), long term disability (LTD), and life insurance. Our care for you goes beyond the benefits package. We are focused on providing you the care and support that you need to thrive at home and at work.

You Bring Meaningful Experience

Successful candidates will have the following:

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  Conduct patient observation and rounds.
• Assists staff with patient care while following treatment plans.
• Observe and monitor patient’s progress and reports observations to staff.
• Develop a therapeutic relationship with patients while maintaining professional boundaries.
• Assist patients with activities of daily living skills as necessary.
• Provide appropriate supervision of patients’ activities.
• All team members are expected to consistently demonstrate our values of integrity, compassion, respect, diversity, and teamwork.
• Responsible for safety monitoring of patients of the unit.

Requirements

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  High school diploma with at least one year of related experience in a hospital/behavioral health setting.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Mental Health, Human Services, or related field preferred.
• Previous experience in psychiatric or substance inpatient, restraint reduction de-escalation, and crisis intervention is preferred.
• Effective oral and written communication skills; ability to develop a therapeutic relationship while maintaining professional boundaries

About MiraVista

MiraVista Behavioral Health Center is a new healthcare provider created to bring much needed psychiatric and substance use disorder services to Western Massachusetts. We opened in April 2021 and are rapidly growing our treatment programs to meet the needs of the Pioneer Valley. We are a growing community of caregivers dedicated to providing healing, hope and trust to our patients and to each other. MiraVista is a great opportunity to develop your career, be part of something new and make a life-saving impact in your community.

Work With Us As We Live Our Values

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  Visionary: We aspire to set the standard for how behavioral healthcare services are provided.
• Integrity: We conduct ourselves in an honest and ethical manner.
• Safety: We strive to provide a safe environment for patients and caregivers.
• Transformational: We inspire our team members, our patients, and their families to lead fulfilling lives.
• Advocacy: We advocate for our patients and the services we provide and work to decrease the health disparities in our communities.

MiraVista is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.