Experienced Senior Psychiatric Technician (BERT) - Atrium Health Pineville FT Days

Full time day shift position - three 12 hour shifts per week. Weekend and holiday requirement.

Additional role functions:

• Serve as the team lead for all BERT activations

• Assist in identifying and rounding on high-risk patients

• Auditing the patient care environment to ensure compliance with the room safety checklist

• Rounding on and auditing compliance with the Blue Star designation for Risk for Harm patients

• Mitigating risk of Workplace Violence Events

• Shift by shift tracking of Risk for Harm patients, IVC patients and patients requiring an in-person safety observer.

• Conduct rapid behavioral assessments and lead de‑escalation

• Collaborate with providers on medication, restraint, and consult decisions

• Provide real time support and education for PSA teammates as well as unit teammates to ensure patient and teammate safety

• Lead post‑event debriefs and complete documentation

• Follow up with teammates after Workplace Violence events to provide support and offer resources

Essential Functions

• Observes, reports, and documents signs, symptoms or changes in patient behavior to charge nurse.
• Interacts with patients therapeutically.
• Assists, initiates, and participates in social and recreational activities, group therapy, patient teaching groups, and other group activities.
• Makes rounds on assigned patients as ordered.
• Monitors patients in seclusion/restraints and documents observations.
• Participates in unit-based process improvement activities.
• Documents observations in the clinical record.
• All mandatory training as per facility policy.

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Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.