Graveyard Mental Health Tech
Job Description
Job Description
The Mental Health Technician (MHT) is responsible for providing overnight supervision, safety monitoring, and support to residents in a structured child and adolescent residential treatment setting. The MHT helps maintain a safe, clean, and therapeutic environment throughout the overnight hours while ensuring residents are appropriately monitored and their individual treatment and safety needs are met.
This position requires an individual who is dependable, attentive, patient, and able to respond appropriately to behavioral or psychiatric concerns that may arise during the night.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Maintain continuous awareness of resident safety and whereabouts throughout the overnight shift.
- Complete and document required 15-minute checks (Q15s) in accordance with facility policy and each resident's individualized supervision requirements.
- Monitor residents for signs of distress, behavioral changes, medical concerns, or other unusual activity.
- Respond promptly and appropriately to residents who wake during the night, experience emotional distress, or require staff assistance.
- Utilize verbal de-escalation and trauma-informed approaches when addressing behavioral concerns.
- Follow individual treatment plans, safety plans, and facility protocols.
- Complete accurate and timely overnight documentation, including observation logs, incident reports, and shift notes.
- Conduct routine safety checks of resident rooms and common areas in accordance with facility policy.
- Maintain confidentiality and protect resident privacy at all times.
- Assist with maintaining a clean, organized, and safe residential environment.
- Complete assigned overnight cleaning, laundry, and housekeeping responsibilities as needed.
- Communicate important observations, incidents, concerns, and resident updates to the incoming morning staff.
- Report any medical emergencies, safety concerns, or significant behavioral incidents to the appropriate supervisor immediately.
- Follow all facility policies, procedures, and applicable state regulations.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
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