Senior Mental Health Technician: Patient-Centered Care

Pavilion Behavioral Health System; Champaign (IL); Hybrid; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Generous paid time off

Medical, dental, vision plan

401(k) with company match

Career development opportunities

Shift differentials for evening/night

Job summary

The Pavilion Behavioral Health System in Champaign, IL operates a 110-bed inpatient hospital, a youth residential treatment center, and a residential addictions program. The Sr.

Mental Health Technician supports daily therapeutic programming across units, collaborates with clinical and nursing staff, ensures activities are delivered, and helps provide meaningful patient participation. The role emphasizes safety, trauma-informed and age-appropriate care, documentation of changes, and crisis

Qualifications

• Physically and mentally fit to care for patients of all ages.
• Empathetic; high emotional and social intelligence.
• Ability to maintain therapeutic boundaries and use crisis intervention techniques.

Responsibilities

• Ensure a safe and therapeutic environment.
• Provide routine patient care as required in a psychiatric environment.
• Document and communicate unusual or erratic changes in client behaviors.
• Assist with patient groups and activities.
• Work with culturally and generationally diverse populations to meet individual needs.
• Provide trauma informed and age-specific care.
• Maintain therapeutic boundaries and utilize crisis intervention techniques.

Job description

The Pavilion Behavioral Health System in Champaign, IL operates a 110-bed inpatient hospital, a youth residential treatment center, and a residential addictions program. The Sr.

Mental Health Technician supports daily therapeutic programming across units, collaborates with clinical and nursing staff, ensures activities are delivered, and helps provide meaningful patient participation. The role emphasizes safety, trauma-informed and age-appropriate care, documentation of changes, and crisis