The Opportunity:

Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City Crittenton Children's Center in South Kansas City, MO is seeking a Behavioral Health Tech to assist in providing a safe and therapeutic milieu environment in compliance with agency policies and procedures. As a member of our team, you will play a critical role in improving the lives of children, adolescents, and their families.

Shift Details:

This is a Full-time Night position, 36 hours per week.

- Shift times are 1900-0730

-Weekend requirements include 2 Friday, 2 Saturday, & 2 Sunday shifts in a 6-week schedule period

- Self-Scheduling after completion of orientation

The Work:

-Responsible for direct supervision of assigned children during work shift to maintain patient safety in collaboration with the nurses, therapists, and physicians

-Observes, reports, and records, patient behaviors under the supervision of RN -Implements the behavioral interventions described in the child's treatment plan

-Conducts educational and treatment focused groups with patients as appropriate with training and supervision

-May be trained as CMT to administer meds to long term residential population. -Crittenton Children's Center is the Kansas City area's premier provider of psychiatric care for children, adolescents and their families. We offer one of the area's most comprehensive behavioral health care programs. To be successful in this role, you will need to be interested and invested in caring for the emotional health of Children. You will need to be caring and compassionate.

Required:

-High school diploma or equivalent

-Experience with children required. Work experience, educational experience or volunteer experience acceptable. A bachelor's degree in a related field will substitute for experience.

- Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs. -MUST BE 21 YEARS OLD TO APPLY -First Aid (will train)

-Basic Life Support (will train)

-MANDT Certified (will train)

Preferred:

-Associate or bachelor's degree in healthcare or therapy related field

-Certification/Licensure in related healthcare or therapy field. Examples: EMT, Paramedic, LPN, or CNA

-Experience as a Behavioral Health Tech or in a related field. Examples: Education, Therapy Tech, or Healthcare.

Why Saint Luke's?

As a leading behavioral health provider for youth in the Kansas City community, Crittenton's residential and acute inpatient programs have consistently exceeded national and local quality benchmarks over the past five year. We believe in creating a collaborative environment where all voices are heard. We are here for you and will support you in achieving your goals. We are dedicated to innovation and always looking for ways to improve. Saint Luke's offers competitive salaries and benefits packages to all of their employees:

-Medical health plans

-Continuing Education Assistance and Tuition reimbursement

-Leave of Absence, PTO, Extended Sick Leave, and various Welfare plans

-Retirement contributions

-Employee Assistance Program