Mental Health Technician | Behavioral Health

Make a Positive Impact as a Mental Health Technician!

Our Mission: Quality, compassionate care for all.

Our Vision: Reimagine health care through connection, service and innovation.

Our Core Values: Be Kind | Trust and Be Trusted | Work Together | Strive for Excellence.

Logan Health Behavioral Health is looking for a full-time (32 hours per week) Mental Health Technician to help support our team!

About our facility:

Logan Health Behavioral Health (formerly Pathways Treatment Center), provides acute inpatient services for Montana clients who have mental health or substance abuse issues.

Our 40-bed facility offers clinically effective treatment through the collaborative efforts of a team that includes psychiatrists, licensed therapists, psychiatric nurses, and mental health technicians. Each staff member is dedicated to delivering results-oriented treatment in a caring and confidential environment.

What you'll be doing:

In this role, you will provide compassionate care and supervision to patients/clients, while documenting behaviors and supporting individualized treatment plans. You’ll play a key role in maintaining and promoting a positive and safe environment through regular safety checks. Additionally, you will help facilitate group activities, fostering engagement and support within the unit.

Only applicants with prior experience working in a residential, psychiatric, or mental health facility or environment will be considered for this position. We are unable to consider inexperienced candidates at this time.

What we offer you!

• Additional shift differential evening, night, & weekend pay!

• 401(k) with generous employer match

• Logan Health Fitness Center membership discount

• EAP (Employee Assistance Program)

• Affordable Medical, Dental and Vision benefits

• Employer paid life insurance

• Tuition Reimbursement Program

and More!

Don't miss this opportunity to make a real difference in your community!

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in psychology/sociology, education or related field preferred. Other combinations of education and experience may be considered.

• Prior experience working in a residential, psychiatric, or mental health facility is required.

• Current CPR or BLS certification as applicable to assigned area(s) must be successfully obtained within thirty (30) days of hire. 

• De-escalation Training required within twelve (12) months of hire.

• Knowledge of cultural, ethnic, social, historical and spiritual issues relevant to the provision of mental health treatment preferred.

• Demonstrated knowledge of cultural, ethnic, social, historical and spiritual issues relevant to the provision of mental health treatment preferred.

• Excellent organizational skills, detail-oriented, a self-starter, possess critical thinking skills and be able to set priorities and function as part of a team as well as independently.

• Commitment to working in a team environment and maintaining confidentiality as needed.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with various audiences.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage sensitive and confidential situations with tact, professionalism, and diplomacy.

• Possess and maintain computer skills to include working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and ability to learn other software as needed.

Job Specific Duties:

• Contributes to the effective implementation of individual treatment plans. Provides limited one-to-one contact with patient/client and assists with focus on aftercare and transition planning.

• Ensures patient/client and their environment are safe, completes safety checks, remains alert to potential problems and/or unsafe environment and reports concerns to appropriate leadership as applicable to assigned area(s). 

• Delivers basic patient/client care under the direction / supervision of leadership as applicable to assigned area(s).  Accurately documents all care given in the electronic medical record in a timely manner.

• Consistently exercises good judgment and professionally responds to stressful and non-stressful situations. Remains calm when de-escalating patient/client.  Recognizes and implements least restrictive to more restrictive interventions based on De-escalation training.   

• Stimulates patient/cli