Mental Health Technician jobs at Catholic Health Initiatives - Colorado

**Job Summary and Responsibilities** **Are you a compassionate and dedicated individual seeking a PRN opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of children and adolescents experiencing mental health challenges? CHI Immanuel Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility is looking for a motivated and empathetic Mental Health Technician to join our team!** At CHI Immanuel, we believe in creating a supportive and structured environment where our young residents can heal, grow, and develop the skills they need to thrive. As a PRN Mental Health Technician, you will play a vital role in empowering our patients to build a brighter future. **Schedule:** This PRN position offers a flexible schedule, requiring **48 hours of commitment within a 6-week period** , providing a great opportunity to supplement your current work or education. This schedule will include **rotating holidays** . As a Mental Health Technician, you will be an integral part of our interdisciplinary team, contributing to a therapeutic environment that fosters personal growth and recovery. Your responsibilities will include: + **Promoting Individuality and Self-Expression:** Actively assist patients in developing their unique identities and appropriate methods of self-expression. You will create an environment where patients feel safe to problem-solve, test out new behaviors, and build essential coping skills. + **Encouraging Responsibility and Growth:** Provide consistent feedback and positive reinforcement to help patients acknowledge and accept responsibility for their psychological and behavioral patterns. This includes consistently applying program rights and regulations, utilizing our behavior modification program, and communicating in an appropriate and therapeutic manner with each patient. + **Facilitating Admissions:** Participate in admission procedures, warmly orienting new patients and their families (or significant others) to our unit and program, ensuring a smooth and welcoming transition. + **Providing Basic Patient Care:** Perform essential tasks that support patient well-being and safety, including: + Conducting regular patient safety rounds. + Assisting with admissions and discharges. + Taking vital signs and blood pressure. + Collecting specimens as needed. + Performing accu checks. + Weighing patients accurately. + Assisting patients with activities of daily living (ADLs) as required. **Job Requirements** As a Mental Health Technician, you will be an integral part of our interdisciplinary team, contributing to a therapeutic environment that fosters personal growth and recovery. Your responsibilities will include: + **Promoting Individuality and Self-Expression:** Actively assist patients in developing their unique identities and appropriate methods of self-expression. You will create an environment where patients feel safe to problem-solve, test out new behaviors, and build essential coping skills. + **Encouraging Responsibility and Growth:** Provide consistent feedback and positive reinforcement to help patients acknowledge and accept responsibility for their psychological and behavioral patterns. This includes consistently applying program rights and regulations, utilizing our behavior modification program, and communicating in an appropriate and therapeutic manner with each patient. + **Facilitating Admissions:** Participate in admission procedures, warmly orienting new patients and their families (or significant others) to our unit and program, ensuring a smooth and welcoming transition. + **Providing Basic Patient Care:** Perform essential tasks that support patient well-being and safety, including: + Conducting regular patient safety rounds. + Assisting with admissions and discharges. + Taking vital signs and blood pressure. + Collecting specimens as needed. + Performing accu checks. + Weighing patients accurately. + Assisting patients with activities of daily living (ADLs) as required. **Where You'll Work** CHI Health Immanuel, located in North Omaha just off of I-680 on 72nd Street, offers a full-service hospital, cancer center, rehabilitation center, specialty spine hospital and more. For well over a century, our commitment to serve our community inspires our staff to provide the highest quality of care to all who we have the privilege to serve. **Pay Range** $16.83 - $23.77 /hour We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

**Job Summary and Responsibilities** + Conducts therapy sessions with patient by doing individual, group and family and/or significant other counseling and education to assist these individuals in achieving defined treatment goals + Refers and collaborates with care team, other agencies, and significant others having a joint interest in meeting the needs of the patient + Respond to crisis situations and provide crisis intervention to patients in assigned program **Job Requirements** + Master's Degree, Mental Health Counseling or Social Work + Must have an active license in state of practice - NE: PLMHP, LMHP, or LIMHP + BLS (Basic Life Support) required **Where You'll Work** CHI Health Immanuel, located in North Omaha just off of I-680 on 72nd Street, offers a full-service hospital, cancer center, rehabilitation center, specialty spine hospital and more. For well over a century, our commitment to serve our community inspires our staff to provide the highest quality of care to all who we have the privilege to serve. **Pay Range** $27.97 - $41.60 /hour We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

**Job Summary and Responsibilities** **Sign on bonus: Up to $5,000** **Educational Assistance (loan forgiveness): Up to $10,000** + Conducts therapy sessions with patient by doing individual, group and family and/or significant other counseling and education to assist these individuals in achieving defined treatment goals + Refers and collaborates with care team, other agencies, and significant others having a joint interest in meeting the needs of the patient + Respond to crisis situations and provide crisis intervention to patients in assigned program **Job Requirements** + Master's Degree, Mental Health Counseling or Social Work + Must have an active license in state of practice - NE: PLMHP, LMHP, or LIMHP + BLS (Basic Life Support) required **Where You'll Work** A 64-bed adult psychiatric facility, Lasting Hope Recovery Center is a place of healing. All of the rooms are private. At Lasting Hope Recovery Center, patients find comfort and a team of caring professionals working for them. Often, mental illness and substance abuse occur at the same time. CHI Health Lasting Hope Recovery Center offers an entire range of treatment and prevention services to meet the needs of patients experiencing both challenges. Treatment is built on personal strengths and support systems that treat individuals experiencing these illnesses. **Pay Range** $27.97 - $41.60 /hour We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

**Job Summary and Responsibilities** **We are offering up to a $900 Sign-On Bonus to new hires who meet the eligibility requirements.** As our Mental Health Tech, you will be vital support for Behavioral Health's front and back office functions, assisting psychiatrists, patients, and the care management team. You'll ensure smooth operations, quality medication management, and clinical problem-solving. Every day you will provide basic medication triage, support services, and take vital signs for behavioral health patients. You'll manage front office reception, patient registration, insurance/copay processing, and telephones, while also handling back office tasks like refill requests, injections, and accurate EHR documentation. To be successful, you need strong multitasking, meticulous attention to detail, and a rapid ability to learn complex information accurately. Exceptional customer service, calm under pressure, EHR proficiency, and strict confidentiality are essential, along with flexibility to float. + Assists patients through a trauma informed care atmosphere in the development of individuality and appropriate methods of self-expression through promoting an environment in which the patient can problem-solve and test out new behaviors. + Assists the patients in acknowledging and accepting responsibility for psychological and behavioral patterns through providing feedback and positive reinforcement, consistently applying program rights and regulations, behavior modification program and communicating in an appropriate manner with the patients. + Provides appropriate emergency care and maintains a safe environment. Maintains a secure environment and acts as a resource for emergency situations. Performs basic nursing tasks (i.e. but not limited to: vital signs, blood pressure, specimen collection, accu checks, weighing and assisting with ADL). Assists the nurse in carrying out orders that are within the scope of practice. + Provides trauma informed care and supervision to patients needing physical restraints or seclusion. + Assists the patient in dealing with relationship difficulties, supports and teaches appropriate socializations skills. Facilitates Its various supportive, classroom educational (where appropriate) and psych-educational activities. + Communicates effectively utilizing both verbal and writing methods within a diverse and multicultural environment. Maintains appropriate communication networks and harmonious working relationships with members of the interdisciplinary team and other departments, through participating in staff meetings, quality assurance activities, safety, security and infection control programs, program development and implementation and all additional training assigned by leadership. **Job Requirements** Required + High School Graduate and with at least 1 year of experience in mental health., upon hire and + Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire or + Basic Life Support Instructor, upon hire Preferred + Bachelors Other in Human Service field or one year experience in the Behavioral Health field is preferred, upon hire or + Graduate of aPsychiatric Assistant and Nurse Aide training program , upon hire **Where You'll Work** A 64-bed adult psychiatric facility, Lasting Hope Recovery Center is a place of healing. All of the rooms are private. At Lasting Hope Recovery Center, patients find comfort and a team of caring professionals working for them. Often, mental illness and substance abuse occur at the same time. CHI Health Lasting Hope Recovery Center offers an entire range of treatment and prevention services to meet the needs of patients experiencing both challenges. Treatment is built on personal strengths and support systems that treat individuals experiencing these illnesses. **Pay Range** $16.83 - $23.77 /hour We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

**Job Summary and Responsibilities** **Program Therapist - Partial Hospitalization. No evenings or weekends** + Conducts therapy sessions with patient by doing individual, group and family and/or significant other counseling and education to assist these individuals in achieving defined treatment goals + Refers and collaborates with care team, other agencies, and significant others having a joint interest in meeting the needs of the patient + Respond to crisis situations and provide crisis intervention to patients in assigned program **Job Requirements** + Master's Degree, Mental Health Counseling or Social Work + Must have an active license in state of practice - NE: PLMHP, LMHP, or LIMHP + BLS (Basic Life Support) required **Where You'll Work** CHI Health Immanuel, located in North Omaha just off of I-680 on 72nd Street, offers a full-service hospital, cancer center, rehabilitation center, specialty spine hospital and more. For well over a century, our commitment to serve our community inspires our staff to provide the highest quality of care to all who we have the privilege to serve. **Pay Range** $23.11 - $34.38 /hour We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.