Mental Health Technician Trainee - #18439
Agency: Department of Human Services
Closing Date: 9/27/2022
Salary: Anticipated Salary: $3,328 per month
Work Hours: 24/7 Variable Shifts
Work Location: Murray Developmental Center - 1535 W McCord St Centralia, IL 62801-5805.
Job Type: Salaried Full Time
County: Clinton
Number of Vacancies: 5
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Position Overview
The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a Mental Health Tech Trainee at the Murray Developmental Center located in Centralia, Illinois. The incumbent will, for a period of time from six and not to exceed twelve months, receive instruction and training in providing care for individuals with developmental disabilities. Conducts activities and programs and escorting of individuals to participate in the receipt of community services. Attends formal classes for instruction in the basic elements of nursing practices and techniques and to gain an elementary understanding of the causes, nature, treatment and habilitation of mental illness or developmental disabilities.
Job Responsibilities
1. For a period from six and not to exceed twelve months, receives instruction and training in caring for individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities.
2. Observes the technical staff in the general performance of technical duties carried out within a unit/cottage related to resident’s general care and management in compliance of residents’ rehabilitation plan.
3. Receives training in techniques of observation of residents, reports on their behavior and interacts with them in a positive manner.
4. Maintains a safe, clean and orderly unit by performing general housekeeping tasks, such as spot mopping, cleaning spills, wiping tables and making of beds and lifting up 50 pounds.
5. Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
1. Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to completion of high school
Conditions of Employment
2. Requires ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
3. Requires the ability to physically restrain individuals as necessary to prevent injury to the Individual or others.
4. Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends, and holidays.
5. Requires ability to participate in and successfully complete a comprehensive training program.
6. Requires the ability to meet all agency vaccine/health-related policies and guidance.
7. Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
8. Requires ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.