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San Antonio Behavioral Healthcare Hospital

Inpatient psychiatric care and addiction treatment

Mental Health Technician - Multiple Teams

Nursing & Frontline Patient CareConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Antonio, TX, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • High school, GED, or equivalent is preferred.
  • Experience in a healthcare environment is preferred.
  • A Certified Nursing Assistant license is a plus.
  • Must obtain and maintain approved cardiopulmonary resuscitation certification and successfully complete Management of Assaultive Behavior training, including restraint and seclusion policies, before assuming patient care responsibility.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in treatment planning by helping identify patients' problems, needs, and strengths, and suggest modifications to treatment plans based on observations of patients' behavior.
  • Provide input during shift reports and discharge planning.
  • Participate in implementing patients' treatment plans by monitoring patients' progress and communicating information about patients' behavior to other members of the treatment team.
  • Maintain communication with patients, family members, and referral sources in patients' interest.
  • Co-facilitate didactic, educational, and community groups within the adolescent treatment program, encouraging and facilitating patients' participation in therapeutic activities.
  • Supervise patients to ensure their safety and involvement in treatment and during transport.
  • Help maintain the therapeutic milieu on the unit and enforce the level system or other methods of behavior management.
  • Maintain patient, program, department, and related documentation.
  • Orient new patients to the unit, program, and milieu.
  • Carry out general nursing assistance as assigned and supervised by the nurse in charge.
  • Maintain a safe, orderly, and therapeutic physical environment for patients.
  • Assist patients in carrying out activities of daily living when congruent with their treatment plan, needs, age, and developmental level.
  • Carry out clerical and administrative assignments to support patient care and department and hospital operations.
  • Participate in activities that enhance professional growth and development.
  • Uphold the organization's ethics and customer service standards.

Desired Qualifications

  • High school, GED, or equivalent.
  • Experience in a healthcare environment.
  • A Certified Nursing Assistant license.

About the Company

San Antonio Behavioral Healthcare Hospital

Inpatient psychiatric care and addiction treatment

SABHH offers inpatient psychiatric care and substance-use treatment at a 198-bed facility in Northwest San Antonio and is part of Universal Health Services. It provides a continuum of care, including inpatient hospitalization, Partial Hospitalization Program (PHP), and Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP), using trauma-informed, evidence-based therapies such as CBT, DBT, and specialized PTSD treatments like Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive Processing Therapy. The hospital also provides medication management, group and individual therapy, holistic activities, Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), and a specialty Victory Program for active-duty service members and veterans in line with DoD/VA guidelines. It accepts insurance—including TRICARE—and aims to deliver comprehensive, individualized mental health and substance-use treatment across care levels.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
San Antonio, TX
Founded
2014

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