**Overview**

A 64-bed adult psychiatric facility Lasting Hope Recovery Center is a place of healing. All of the rooms are private. At Lasting Hope Recovery Center patients find comfort and a team of caring professionals working for them. Often mental illness and substance abuse occur at the same time. CHI Health Lasting Hope Recovery Center offers an entire range of treatment and prevention services to meet the needs of patients experiencing both challenges. Treatment is built on personal strengths and support systems that treat individuals experiencing these illnesses.

**Immediate opportunity for a Mental Health Technician - Lasting Hope Recovery Center**

**$5,000 sign on bonus**

With you in mind, we offer the following benefits to support your work/life balance:

+ Health/Dental/Vision Insurance

+ Direct Primary Plan (No copay, no deductible, and access to CHI Health provider 24/7)

+ Premium Access to our Family Care Program supporting your needs for childcare, pet care, and/or adult dependent care

+ Voluntary Protection: Group Accident, Critical Illness, and Identity Theft

+ Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family

+ Paid Time Off (PTO)

+ Tuition Assistance for career growth and development

+ Matching 401(k) and 457(b) Retirement Programs

+ Adoption Assistance

+ Wellness Programs

+ Flexible spending accounts

CHI Health, now part of CommonSpirit Health formed between Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health, includes 150+ clinics delivering quality care to patients across Nebraska and southeast Iowa. Our full-service network provides a variety of Primary Care & Priority Care Services, including Family, Internal, Geriatric, and Pediatric Medicine, in addition to several specialties to deliver custom care based on the unique needs of our patients.

**Responsibilities**

In healthcare, we all agree that support is a must in order to be successful. This position will support our healthcare teams by ensuring they have everything they need in order to care for our patients. We couldn’t do it without you! If you have a passion for supporting others and enhancing patient experience, we want to talk to you.

**Expectations:**

+ Assists patients in the development of individuality and appropriate methods of self-expression through promoting an environment in which the patient can problem-solve and test out new behaviors

+ Assists the patients in acknowledging and accepting responsibility for psychological and behavioral patterns through providing feedback and positive reinforcement, consistently applying program rights and regulations, behavior modification program and communicating in an appropriate manner with the patient

+ Participates in admission procedures; orients patient and family (significant others) to unit and program

+ Performs basic tasks on the patient such as patient safety rounding, admissions, vital signs, blood pressure, specimen collection, accu checks, weighing and assisting with activities of daily living

**Qualifications**

+ High School Diploma with at least 1 year of experience preferred

+ Basic Life Support (BLS) required

+ Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Human Service field or Graduate of a Psychiatric Assistant or Nurse Aide training program or one year experience in the Behavioral Health field

+ Certification Mental Health Tech - preferred

**Pay Range**

$15.88 - $21.83 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.