Mental Health Technician
About The Position
ilearn wellness group is opening its first adolescent day clinic, an affiliate of LearnWell. The clinic draws on LearnWell and Comprehensive Counseling’s 26 years of experience to provide a caring atmosphere and clinical programming that supports the whole patient. The organization’s mission is to improve access to behavioral health counseling and academic services. The Mental Health Technician supports core clinical needs during the daytime program in an on-site adolescent partial hospital setting. Working with a multidisciplinary team, the technician helps lead and monitor therapeutic groups and the milieu for patients ages 8–19. Programming includes CBT, DBT, ACT, social skills, psychoeducation, creative arts therapy, health education, and mindfulness. The position also supports coordination and continuity of care, patient documentation, and daily clinic operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in psychology, counseling, or a related field.
- Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer service.
- Ability to work on-site Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree.
- Experience working with adolescents.
- Experience in a mental health setting.
Responsibilities
- Help maintain a safe, therapeutic, and engaging environment through direct care of patients in the milieu throughout the program day.
- Check patients in upon arrival and out at dismissal, support their return to groups, and supervise milieu activities such as visits to the nurse or restroom.
- Support group therapy facilitation by engaging patients, supervising appropriate technology use, and supporting positive group dynamics and well-being.
- Communicate with outside providers, including primary care providers, outpatient providers, and schools, and assist with implementing discharge care.
- Work with the interdisciplinary team to manage discharge follow-up appointments and ensure continuity of care across clinical, therapeutic, and educational environments.
- Provide input on adolescents’ progress, behavior, and readiness to transition to different levels of care.
- Facilitate coordinated interventions to address adolescents’ behavioral health needs.
- Maintain appropriate documentation of patient observations and events.
- Support management of the lobby and waiting area, answer the phone, and communicate with the Intake Social Worker about attendance.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory agencies, accrediting bodies, and other governing organizations.
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Job Type
Full-time
