Mental Health Worker
Berkeley, CAFull-time$33.93–38.01/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Mental Health Worker provides direct patient care and emotional support to patients on acute care inpatient services at Alta Bates/Summit Medical Center. Under nursing or team-leader direction, the worker gathers and reports observational data, implements therapeutic interventions, and assists with a safe therapeutic environment, admissions and discharges, and activities of daily living. The role requires verbal de-escalation proficiency and effective interpersonal skills.
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Full job description
We are so glad you are interested in joining Sutter Health!
Organization:
ABSMC-Alta Bates Herrick Campus
Position Overview:
The Mental Health Worker performs duties under the direction of the Unit Charge Nurse, Relief Charge Nurse, or Team Leader. This position is responsible for gathering and reporting observational data, providing direct patient care to assigned patients, implementing therapeutic interventions and emotional support for patient during hospitalization on the acute care inpatient services at Alta Bates/Summit Medical Center. The position requires proficiency in verbal de-escalation of anxious and agitated patients. Mental Health Workers assist the R.N. in assuring the maintenance of a safe therapeutic environment, in the implementation of the program, in processing admissions and discharges, and in assisting patients in activities of daily living.
Job Description :
EDUCATION
Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma.
Bachelor's: Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university
CERTIFICATION & LICENSURE
BLS-Basic Life Support Healthcare Provider
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE AS TYPICALLY ACQUIRED IN:
Minimum of 12 months of experience in a behavioral health care setting.
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Must possess effective interpersonal skills.
Must have a functional knowledge of psychiatric terminology
Job Shift:
Evenings
Schedule:
Full Time
Shift Hours:
8
Days of the Week:
Variable
Weekend Requirements:
Every other Weekend
Benefits:
Yes
Unions:
Yes
Position Status:
Non-Exempt
Weekly Hours:
40
Employee Status:
Regular
Sutter Health is an equal opportunity employer EOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans.
Pay Range is $33.93 to $38.01 / hour
The posted pay range is based on the position's primary work location. Candidates who reside and work outside of that location may be subject to a different pay range based on their work location. Candidate starting salaries consider multiple factors, including, but not limited to a candidate’s experience, education, skills, licensure, certifications, departmental equity, training, and organizational needs. Base pay is only one component of Sutter Health’s comprehensive total rewards program. Eligible positions also include a comprehensive benefits package.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,373 open Patient Care jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$33.93–38.01/hr
- California median$29–40/hr98 hourly ranges
- US median$24–34/hr1,930 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $35.97/hr, is 4% above the California median midpoint ($35/hr) — in the middle half of Patient Care hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 141 open Patient Care jobs in California and 3,373 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- CVS Health32 open
- Sutter Health (this employer)21 open
- Kaiser Permanente20 open
- Experience
- Patient Care postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (857 postings).
- Education
- 598 of the 3,373 open Patient Care jobs (18%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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