Behavioral Health Technician

SYCAMORE SPRINGS; Lafayette (IN); On-site; USD 21,000 - 34,000; Part time

Job summary

Lifepoint Health provides care across a broad continuum, dedicated to healing and dignity. This Behavioral Health Technician role supports therapeutic programming under RN direction, ensuring safety and compassionate care for patients and guests in a psychiatric hospital setting.

The position emphasizes one-on-one supervision, routine vital signs, and participation in psychoeducational groups, with CPR and de-escalation training required within 30 days of hire.

Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• Experience in psychiatric healthcare facility preferred.
• CPR and de-escalation certification required within 30 days of hire.

Responsibilities

• Observe and maintain a safe environment through regular patient checks and safety monitoring.
• Take vital signs, collect specimens, document care, assist with group education, and monitor patients.
• Promote a positive therapeutic milieu and accompany patients to meals, breaks, and appointments.
• Report medical or psychiatric changes to the RN and assist with admissions, including belongings inventory and vital signs.
• Document patient property at admission and discharge and conduct unit safety checks each shift.
• Encourage or assist patients with activities of daily living and facilitate psychoeducational and therapeutic groups.
• Apply crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques and maintain program protocol knowledge.
• Orient new staff and document in the medical record according to policy.

Skills

Observation

Safety monitoring

Crisis intervention

De-escalation techniques

Patient supervision

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

CPR certification

Job description

Provides support to the therapeutic milieu under the direction of the registered nurse by ensuring scheduled programs are delivered, supervising patients, maintaining safety, and treating patients and guests with dignity.

Essential Functions

Behavioral Health Technician Position Summary

Provides support to the therapeutic milieu under the direction of the registered nurse by ensuring scheduled programs are delivered, supervising patients, maintaining safety, and treating patients and guests with dignity.

• Observe and maintain a safe environment through regular patient checks, safety monitoring, contraband searches, and one‑on‑one supervision as needed.
• Perform delegated tasks such as taking vital signs, collecting specimens, documenting care, assisting with group education, and monitoring patients.
• Promote a positive therapeutic milieu and accompany patients to meals, breaks, off‑unit visits, and appointments.
• Report all medical or psychiatric changes to the RN and assist with admissions, including belongings inventory and vital signs.
• Document patient property at admission and discharge and conduct unit safety checks each shift to ensure a clean, therapeutic environment.
• Encourage or assist patients with activities of daily living and facilitate or co‑facilitate psychoeducational and therapeutic groups using established guidelines.
• Apply crisis intervention and de‑escalation techniques as needed and maintain knowledge of program protocols.
• Orient new staff members to the unit, document in the medical record according to policy, provide feedback to the interdisciplinary team, comply with OSHA and CDC specimen guidelines, and perform other duties as assigned.

Additional Information

• Reports to: Chief Nursing Officer
• FLSA Status: Non‑exempt
• Works in a psychiatric hospital setting providing care across shifts and populations.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Education: High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• Experience: Previous experience in a psychiatric health‑care facility with chemical dependency, dual diagnosis, psychiatric, or geriatric patients preferred.
• Certifications: CPR and de‑escalation certification required within 30 days of hire.

About Us

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.

About the Team

We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.

Job Info

• Job Identification 358962
• Job Category Nursing
• Degree Level High School Diploma/GED
• Job Schedule Part time
• Job Shift PRN
• Locations 833 Park East Blvd, Lafayette, IN, 47905, US