# Mental Health Technician/Driver - Outpatient (Evening Hours)

**Company:** [Desert Parkway Behavioral Healthcare Hospital](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/9WWbqsPzhKkj37xFjK77Yf.md)
**Location:** Las Vegas, United States
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Outpatient

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## Description

The Mental Health Technician/Driver provides direct patient care to patients with emotional or psychiatric disorders, supports a therapeutic setting and ensures the safety and well-being of patients.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

-   Accompanies and transports patients as assigned
-   Responsible for safely transporting patients to and from Desert Parkway Behavioral Healthcare Hospital
-   Responsible for complying with all Federal, State, and Local traffic laws
-   Maintains the cleanliness of the company vehicle
-   Maintains a good rapport with patients
-   Assists with phone calls to patients to confirm driving times and dates
-   Monitors patients' progress and communicates information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team Encourages and facilitates patients' participation in therapeutic activities
-   Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients
-   Participates in maintaining the therapeutic setting, enforces the CPI system or other methods of behavior management
-   Carries out clerical and administrative assignment to support patient care, program, and organization operations
-   Helps identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths
-   Suggests modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior
-   Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment.
-   Orients new patients to facility, program, and setting
-   _**Schedule is Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 12:00pm - 8:30pm and Thursday and Friday from 9:00am - 5:30pm**_

## Requirements

-   High school diploma or GED required
-   Previous experience working with youth required
-   Valid Driver's license and insurance required
-   Experience with therapeutic limit-setting helpful or an understanding of level systems or other behavior management modalities helpful
-   Ability to maintain professional boundaries

## Benefits

Benefits package is available the first of the month following just one (1) month of employment!

Desert Parkway offers competitive benefits to include:

-   Health Insurance
-   Dental insurance
-   Vision insurance
-   401K Retirement Plan
-   Healthcare spending account
-   Dependent care spending account
-   PTO Plan with holiday premium pay
-   Discounted cafeteria meal plan
-   Life insurance (including plans for spouse and children)
-   Short- and long-term disability (with additional buy-in opportunities)
-   Pet Insurance
-   Identity Theft Insurance