• Helps to create a clean, safe and therapeutic environment for patients or inmates.
• Apply mental health principles and relationship security with patients or inmates.
• Supervise patient activities.
• Performs custody tasks including supervision of patient activities.
• Shakedown; i.e., searching for drugs, contraband, weapons and inspecting facilities to identify security breaches that could lead to the escape of a patient or inmate.
• Observes and intervenes in patient behavior that may injure people, damage property or signal impending escape attempts.
• Applies and demonstrates knowledge of correct methods in the prevention and management of assaultive behavior (PMAB), that includes patient containment, heavy lifting (over 50 pounds), applying restraints, and responding to emergency situations throughout the hospital.
• Performs nursing procedures such as administering medications including oral medications and hypodermic injection, observing patients or inmates physical condition and behavior and reporting significant changes to a shift supervisor, unit supervisor or physician and recording nursing notes: in the patients or inmate record
• CPR, and following infection control procedures.

Possession of a valid license to practice as a Psychiatric Technician issued by the BVNPTE AND must be a retired state civil service employee.