Psychiatric Technician Student, Day Shift, Behavioral Health

AHC SGMC Behavioral Health

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Adventist Health Care seeks to hire an experienced Psychiatric Technician for our Behavioral Health unit who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

As a Psychiatric Technician Student, you will:
• Monitor therapeutic treatment milieu
• Collaborates with the treatment team to develop patient care protocols and procedures.
• Incorporates clinical guidelines into patient care
• Actively participates and completes Psychiatric Technician Academy
• Uses information technology to deliver safe and efficient care
• Uses critical thinking skills to make clinical judgment and individualize patient care.

Qualifications include:
• 0-2 years of clinical experience in acute or sub-acute care setting
• High school diploma or GED

Work Schedule:

The Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center Psychiatric Technician Academy is a 7-week training program. The schedule will be Monday through Friday, day shift, for 2.5 weeks and will transition to 12-hour shifts, 3 days a week and every other weekend for 4.5 weeks. Once the program is completed, the schedule for the Psychiatric Technician will continue to be 12-hour shifts, day or nights and every other weekend.

Pay Range:

$17.15 - $22.79

If the salary range is listed as $0 or if the position is Per Diem (with a fixed rate), salary discussions will take place during the screening process.

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), this position is classified as:

United States of America (Non-Exempt)

At Adventist HealthCare our job is to care for you.

We do this by offering:

• Work life balance through nonrotating shifts

• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise

• Free Employee parking

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, and Vision coverage for employees and their eligible dependents effective on your date of hire

• Employer-paid Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance and AD&D, (short-term disability buy-up available)

• Paid Time Off

• Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with a 3-year vesting period 

• Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long term care, and critical illness & accident insurance

• Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) support

As a faith-based organization, with over a century of caring for the communities in the Maryland area, Adventist HealthCare has earned a reputation for high-quality, compassionate care. Adventist HealthCare was the first and is the largest healthcare provider in Montgomery County.

If you want to make a difference in someone’s life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals who are doing just that, making a difference.

Join the Adventist HealthCare team today, apply now to be considered!

COVID-19 Vaccination

Adventist HealthCare strongly recommends all applicants to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before commencing employment. Applicants may be required to furnish proof of vaccination.

Tobacco and Drug Statement

Tobacco use is a well-recognized preventable cause of death in the United States and an important public health issue. In order to promote and maintain a healthy work environment, Adventist HealthCare will not hire applicants for employment who either state that they are nicotine users or who test positive for nicotine and drug use.

 

While some jurisdictions, including Maryland, permit the use of marijuana for medical purposes, marijuana continues to be classified as an illegal drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act.  As a result, medical marijuana use will not be accepted as a valid explanation for a positive drug test result.

 

Adventist HealthCare will withdraw offers of employment to applicants who test positive for Cotinine (nicotine) and marijuana. Those testing positive are given the opportunity to re-apply in 90 days, if they can truthfully attest that they have not used any nicotine products in the past ninety (90) days and successfully pass follow-up testing. ("Nicotine products" include, but are not limited