Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryNursing & Frontline Patient Care
About the job
Requirements
A high school diploma or equivalent is required.
CPR, Handle with Care, and Abuse & Neglect training are required; the employer provides the training.
A minimum of 2 years of clinical experience is required, preferably in behavioral healthcare, phone triage, telehealth, case management, or a combination of education and experience.
Experience in a freestanding psychiatric hospital is preferred.
Must be able to multitask and prioritize using time-management skills.
Must successfully pass a background check, drug screen, and physical, and provide positive employment references.
Must be able to perform the stated physical demands, with or without reasonable accommodations, including sustained standing and walking; stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, pulling, lifting, raising, and moving objects up to 50 pounds; finger grasping and sensing sizes, shapes, temperatures, and textures; exchanging ideas orally; visually detecting, perceiving, identifying, recognizing, judging, observing, inspecting, and assessing; perceiving sound; and repetitive wrist, hand, or finger motions.
Responsibilities
Work with children, adolescents, and adults during hospital admission.
Provide care to patients on the Senior Adult and Adolescent units who are hospitalized with psychiatric or emotional disorders.
Support the hospital program philosophy of care and ensure a therapeutic milieu for patients.
Communicate consistently with nursing staff and participate in patient care plans.
Participate in treatment planning by helping identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths, and suggesting treatment-plan modifications based on observations of patient behavior.
Provide input during shift reports and discharge planning.
Implement patient treatment plans by monitoring progress and communicating behavioral information to other treatment-team members.
Communicate with patients, family members, and referral sources in the patients' interests.
Co-facilitate didactic, educational, and community groups within the adolescent treatment program, encouraging and facilitating patient participation in therapeutic activities.
Supervise patients to ensure their safety and involvement in treatment and during transport.
Maintain the therapeutic milieu on the unit and enforce the level system or other behavior-management methods.
Maintain patient, program, department, and related documentation.
Orient new patients to the unit, program, and milieu.
Provide general nursing assistance as assigned and supervised by the nurse in charge.
Maintain a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients.
Assist patients with activities of daily living when consistent with their treatment plan, needs, age, and developmental level.
Perform clerical and administrative assignments supporting patient care and department and hospital operations.
Perform other related duties as requested and as needed to meet ongoing hospital needs.
Uphold the organization's ethics and customer-service standards.
Intake Mental Health Tech - Full Time (Days 645A-715P) rotating
Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Hospital · Desoto, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-10
Workplace: on_site
Department: Nursing
Description
The position will work with children, adolescents and adults while admitting them into the hospital.
We are looking to hire full-time Mental Health Techs (MHT) to provide high quality care to patients on our Senior Adult and Adolescent units who are hospitalized with psychiatric/ emotional disorders. MHT's hired must support the hospital program philosophy of care, support and ensure a therapeutic milieu for all patients, communicate with nursing staff constantly and participate in the patient plan of care.
Participate in treatment planning by helping identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths; suggesting modifications to treatment plan based on observations of patients' behavior.
Provides input during shift report and discharge planning.
Participate in implementing patients' treatment plans by monitoring patients' progress, communicating information regarding patients' behavior to other members of treatment team.
Maintains communication with patient, family members, and referral sources in patients' interest
Co-facilitates didactic, educational, and community groups within the context of the adolescent treatment program encouraging and facilitating patients' participation in therapeutic activities.
Supervises patients to ensure their safety and their involvement in treatment and during transport
Participate in maintaining the therapeutic milieu on the unit, enforces the level system or other methods of behavior management.
Maintain patient, program, department, and related documentation.
Orient new patients to unit, program and milieu.
Carry out general nursing assistance as assigned and supervised by nurse in charge.
Maintains a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients.
Assists patients in carrying out activities of daily living, when congruent with the patients' treatment plan and needs, age, and developmental level.
Carry out clerical/administrative assignment to support patient care and department and hospital operations.
Performs related duties, as requested.
Upholds the Organization's ethics and customer service standards.
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the hospital.
Requirements
Education: High school diploma or equivalent required. CPR, Handle with Care and Abuse & Neglect are required (training required and employer provided)
Required Licenses: None
Experience: Minimum of 2 years clinical experience, preferably in a behavioral healthcare setting, phone triage, tele-health or case management or combination of education and experience. Experience in a free standing psychiatric hospital preferred.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Must be able to multi-task, prioritize with strong time management skills.
Screening: Must successfully pass background check, drug screen, physical and be able to provide positive employment references.
Physical Demands: With or without reasonable accommodations, must be able to stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, stand for sustained period of time, walk, pull, lift, raise and move objects from position to position (up to 50 lbs), finger grasp; feel sizes, shapes, temperatures, and textures; express or exchange ideas orally and potentially loudly, accurately, or quickly; visually detect, determine, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, observe, inspect, assess; perceive the nature of sound with or without correction; perform repetitive motions of the wrist, hands, or fingers.
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the hospital.
If you are among the most competitive and qualified candidates for the job, you will be contacted directly by one of our hiring managers. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to individual inquiries regarding your application status. Good Luck & we hope to meet you soon!
Dallas Behavioral Healthcare Hospital is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.
Benefits
Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, company paid disability, 401(k) and a generous amount of paid time off.