Part- Time Licensed Psychiatric Technician - Emergency Department - Westwood

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Onsite or Remote

Fully On-Site

Work Schedule

Nights: 7pm-7:30am including weekends and holidays

Posted Date

07/07/2026

Salary Range : $32.52 - 42.93 Hourly

Employment Type

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

31698

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

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The Licensed Psychiatric Technician, under direct supervision of a Registered Nurse, provides nursing care to psychiatric patients by implementing and evaluating the established plan of care; carrying out assigned tasks; working collaboratively with members of the nursing and multidisciplinary team.

Job Qualifications

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• CPR - BLS through AHA or ARC REQUIRED
• California Psychiatric Technician Licensure REQUIRED
• At least 6 months experience in a psychiatric inpatient setting or equivalent - REQUIRED
• Group dynamics
• Psychological functioning and deviations from normal
• Growth and development throughout the life span
• Techniques of therapeutic communication
• Drug administration
• Management of assaultive behavior
• Read documents written in standard English text
• Write legibly in grammatically correct English
• Speak to patients/families and colleagues using appropriate English grammar
• Use techniques of therapeutic communication
• Observe and report patients’ behavior
• Establish written goals and objectives for each activity
• Plan and implement individual, large and small group programs/activities
• Evaluate patients’ strength and problem areas
• Modify and/or adapt group techniques to improve individual and/or group treatment outcomes
• Physically participate in patient activities
• Physically apply holds, restraints and protective devices
• Demonstrated ability to provide individual and group activities to psychiatric patients on an acute psychiatric inpatient

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer. Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.