Grafton Integrated Health Network

Mental Health Technician - PRN

Grafton Integrated Health Network  •  $38k - $50k/yr  •  Cold Spring, KY (Onsite)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

Mental Health Technician

Make an Impact Every Day — Provide Compassionate Care Where It Matters Most

At Grafton Integrated Health Network, we are committed to helping individuals with complex needs live meaningful, fulfilling lives. As a Mental Health Technician, you provide direct, person-centered care in a structured residential setting, supporting residents in developing independence, life skills, and emotional well-being.

Join us - and experience the deep fulfillment of knowing your work truly makes a difference!

Be part of a team that leads with heart and grit, the Grafton way—where leadership, compassion, and dedication come together to change lives.

The Mental Health Technician (MHT) in our Children & Adolescence program, participates in the direct care and plan implementation for clients, as prescribed by physician and treatment teams. The MHT provides supervision, safety and crisis management for the client population; completes documentation of client behavior and participation in programming; adheres to the scheduled activities; serves as role model for positive and mature behavior; utilizes proactive behavioral strategies to minimize client crisis and maximize success.

Essential Job Functions:

  • Ensures the health, safety and wellness of Clients
  • Supports client health and hygiene and utilizes infection control procedures.
  • Reports serious incidents, participates in reviews and implements follow-up measures, as applicable.
  • Follows and administers the individual plan for clients to include understanding of SNAP (strengths, needs, abilities and preferences), goals/objectives/outcomes and treatment strategies from the current Plans (Treatment Plan, IEP, ISP) of assigned clients.
  • Collaborates with the Treatment Team to provide continuity of support and care, by communicating and contributing to team discussions and decisions
  • Promotes clients’ achievement of behavioral goals by implementing the behavior strategies and teaching alternative behaviors, as indicated in the Treatment Plan/IEP/ISP.
  • Actively instructs assigned clients so they can achieve education/residential goals and objectives or ID Waiver outcomes.
  • Collects and documents behavioral and instructional data, accurately and reliably. Documents services delivered, accurately and in a timely manner.
  • Maintains a high level of engagement with and monitoring of clients. Implements planned activities throughout the work day.
  • Provides a supportive and solution–Focused Environment through building trust, respect, and good relationships with clients.
  • Manages behavioral crisis safely.
  • Oversees site management to include housekeeping, nutrition, and transportations.
  • Assists with purchases and is accountable for program and client money, as applicable

Licensing/Certification:

  • Valid Driver's License

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Must be 21 years of age
  • High School Diploma and six months of direct care experience with children and/or adolescents or
  • Associates degree and three months of direct care experience with children and/or adolescents or
  • Bachelors degree in Human Service field
  • Must demonstrate teamwork and commitment to the mission, vision, and values of Grafton.
  • Exhibits exemplary customer service with guardians, agency personnel and visitors.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

  • Demonstrates moderate computer skills – how to log-in, how to navigate the Web for information, how to start and save a document in Microsoft WORD, and has basic keyboarding skills.

AVAILABLE SHIFTS

  • Days/Evenings/Overnights

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS:

Caring for You, So You can Care for Others:

  • Medical, dental and vision
  • Flexible Spending & Health Savings Accounts
  • Generous Paid Time Off plan & attendance incentives
  • Employer Paid Life Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Short-term disability (STD)
  • Long-term disability (LTD)

Stronger Together: Supporting Your Growth & Success:

  • Paid Career Development - we pay you while becoming certified in CPR, Ukeru, Mandt and other career training!
  • 401(k), including an employer match up to $2,500 annually
  • Education Assistance up to $5,250 annually
  • As Grafton is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, you may be eligible for federal student loan forgiveness

If you have issues applying or have any questions about this position, please reach out to us at hr@grafton.org

Grafton is an equal employment opportunity employer and tobacco-free workplace.

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Grafton Integrated Health Network

About Grafton Integrated Health Network

Grafton Integrated Health Network partners with individuals, families and communities to solve complex behavioral health, wellness and human developmental challenges.

With nearly 60 years of clinical experience and evidence-based data in behavioral health and intellectual/developmental disabilities, Grafton is uniquely qualified to deliver improved outcomes.

The organization often accepts – and, based on clearly defined indicators, is successful with – the most challenging clients, many of whom have a co-occurring diagnosis. Grafton is at the forefront in working with individuals on the autism spectrum, having worked with this population throughout the past six decades.

Grafton’s multidisciplinary team — a group of committed and caring people with a broad base of knowledge in mental health care — is its greatest assets. Dozens of clinical, medical and academic specialties — including physicians, nurses, teachers, therapists, speech therapists, occupational therapists and direct service professionals — are represented on the Grafton team. Our therapists have specialized training in areas including:

o Applied behavioral analysis;

o Attachment specialists;

o Certified sex offender treatment;

o Child and adolescent psychiatry;

o Cognitive behavioral therapy;

o Dialectical behavior therapy;

o Family therapy;

o Group therapy;

o High fidelity wraparound services;

o Motivational interviewing; and

o Trauma-informed cognitive behavioral therapy

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Winchester, VA
Year Founded
1958
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