Albertina Kerr empowers people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, mental health challenges, and other social barriers to lead self-determined lives and reach their full potential. Kerr utilizes Collaborative Problem Solving in helping children with behavioral challenges. This strength-based model fosters the understanding that kids do well if they can.
As a Psychiatric Technician, you will provide direct care and support to children and adolescents experiencing an acute psychiatric episode. This is an extraordinary opportunity to enter and grow your career in the mental health field. You'll facilitate skills groups and education groups, guide structured recreational activities, and support the children and adolescents we serve in their daily activities.
Our Children's Psychiatric Crisis (Subacute) program offers short-time, safe, and secure residential placement for children and teens who are experiencing a mental health crisis. Services focus on mental health stabilization, psychiatric evaluation, and transitional planning with an average length of stay around three weeks. Common diagnoses include major depression, suicide ideation, and anxiety. You'll support a diverse population, including transgender and nonbinary youth as part of an impactful, multidisciplinary team.
This position is part-time, with times and days varying between Monday and Thursday.
Essential Duties
- Conduct evaluations and assessments of clients.
- Ensure clients' personal safety and provide them with basic needs: adequate food, clean clothing, and assistance in areas of hygiene when needed.
- Consult treatment plans to implement appropriate care for developmental needs.
- Teach social skills and provide appropriate opportunities for socialization.
- Facilitate educational groups and therapeutic skills groups for clients.
- Consistently fulfill the duties of a mandatory abuse reporter.
- Document notes and carry out incident reporting.
- Perform safeguarding interventions.
- Complete cleaning and housekeeping tasks.
Benefits
- Paid internal training and career development.
- Paid holidays and time off.
- Ability to interact effectively with clients, families, and peers.
- Adept problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficient computer skills, and capacity to learn new operating systems and applications.
- Basic math skills.
- Physical requirements: Ability to lift, push, bend, and pull; stand or move about; raise arms in an unsupported position; twist from side to side at the waist; reach for objects; perform similar repetitive hand operations or other fatiguing demands for over five hours per day.
- Ability to safely perform Oregon Intervention System (OIS) requirements for physical intervention techniques.
Minimum Qualifications
- Meets requirements to register as a Qualified Mental Health Associate (QMHA).
- Demonstrated experience and skill in working with clients with a high level of behavioral acuity.
- Understanding of age-specific child development.
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