Behavioral Health Tech - Lou Masterman Center
About The Position
The Behavioral Health Tech works at the Lou Masterman Center, a seven-bed Intensive Residential Treatment Service (IRTS) program in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. The program serves adults with chronic mental health diagnoses, including anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, and personality disorders. Clients may experience significant behavioral and emotional challenges and need structure, stability, and long-term support. The role provides client care that promotes safety, comfort, and a therapeutic environment using a trauma-informed approach. Staff support clients’ daily living and self-care needs, teach functional living skills in line with individual treatment plans, participate in activities, coordinate care with the treatment team, and document observations and services according to agency and applicable program requirements. The role may also include crisis intervention, medication distribution, facility upkeep, client monitoring, and transportation. Available schedules include an evening schedule of Wednesday 3:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m. and Saturday/Sunday 7:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m.; a floating schedule that varies with program needs and requires availability for days, evenings, and overnights; and PRN work, typically one shift per week depending on need and availability. Pay is $17.38–$19.78 per hour depending on experience, plus applicable shift differentials. Floating pay is $18.59–$20.99 per hour. Evening shifts receive an additional $0.50 per hour worked, and overnight shifts receive an additional $1.00 per hour worked. Benefits may vary depending on hours worked.
Requirements
- High school diploma, GED, or HSE.
- Valid driver’s license: Class E for Missouri residents or Class D for Illinois residents; the required license may be obtained on the start date.
- Current continuous auto insurance.
Responsibilities
- Provide client care that promotes safety, comfort, and a therapeutic environment using a trauma-informed approach.
- Participate in recreational and social activities with clients.
- Promote and educate clients on activities of daily living, including household management and self-care tasks such as hygiene, grooming, and medication responsibilities.
- Teach functional living skills, including anger management, impulse control, social and communication skills, relaxation, and emotional coping, based on clients’ individual treatment plans.
- Collaborate with the treatment team to coordinate client care services.
- Complete and chart client observations according to agency policy and procedure.
- Conduct ongoing checks of personal belongings, rooms, and grounds according to agency policy and procedure.
- Provide protective oversight, monitor clients’ condition, and follow agency procedures for medical emergencies or elopement.
- Clean the facility and grounds as needed.
- Intervene in behavioral health crisis situations when needed.
- Distribute medications and document their distribution according to agency policy and procedure; immediately report medication errors according to agency protocol.
- Transport clients in an agency or personal vehicle when deemed necessary and appropriate to meet program requirements.
- Document according to clinical policies and procedures and applicable DMH, CARF, federal, and state program standards.
Benefits
- 24 paid days off in the first year, including a day off for the employee’s birthday.
- Seven paid holidays.
- Health, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance.
- Company-paid life and LTD insurance.
- Retirement auto-enrollment.
- Employee referral program.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
