Registered Nurse, Behavioral Health

Woodland Springs is part of Lifepoint Health. A Behavioral Health Technician provides support to the therapeutic milieu under the direction of the registered nurse by ensuring scheduled programs are delivered, supervising patients, maintaining safety, and treating patients and guests with dignity. Responsibilities include observing and maintaining a safe environment, performing delegated tasks such as taking vital signs and collecting specimens, promoting a positive therapeutic milieu, reporting medical or psychiatric changes to the RN, documenting patient property, encouraging or assisting patients with activities of daily living, facilitating psychoeducational and therapeutic groups, applying crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques, orienting new staff, and complying with OSHA and CDC specimen guidelines.