MENTAL HEALTH TECH - OVERNIGHTS

Mental Health Technician

Palm Shores Behavioral Health Center provides quality mental health care and education services for adolescents, ages 11–17 who are experiencing behavioral, emotional, educational, family and social challenges. The dedicated professionals at Palm Shores Behavioral Health Center provide quality mental health treatment for children. The program establishes healthy behaviors and prepares children to transition back home. The Mental Health Technician (MHT) performs direct patient care duties in a residential behavioral health setting. The Mental Health Technician is responsible for supervising the patient in treatment, recreation, educational settings, and other activities of daily living to assess changes in their social behaviors and clinical status. MHT's have the primary responsibility for ensuring the patient's safety in the facility. MHT's are responsible for understanding and using the least restrictive interventions per facility policy and successfully avoid seclusion and restraint whenever possible.

Benefits include a sign on bonus, competitive compensation, paid time off, medical, dental, vision and prescription drug plans, 401(K) with company match, student loan refinancing program, and career development opportunities.

Qualifications include a high school diploma or GED, preferred bachelor degree in psychology, sociology, social work, human services or like field, experience in residential psychiatry or other childcare facility/agency experience in comparable position, ability to pass a Level 2 background screening to work in healthcare (AHCA) and pre-employment drug test, ability to set and maintain therapeutic distance with clients, ability to read, understand, and follow policies, procedures, and written treatment plans, diversity and inclusion in regards to patients, families and co-workers, ability to communicate verbally and in writing, physical agility to manage patients, push, pull and lift up to 50 pounds, intermittent sitting, standing, walking, bending, and stooping.