Mental Health Tech
Woodland, CAJob$34.37–38.82/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Mental Health Tech supports the psychiatric acute-adult healthcare team under the guidance of a Registered Nurse. The role includes observing patients, recording vital signs and activities, and assisting nurses with group therapy and activities of daily living. The position is at Woodland Memorial Hospital, an acute care facility that provides inpatient mental health services.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Mental Health Tech, you will be a vital part of our psychiatric acute-adult healthcare team, providing essential patient care support under the guidance of a Registered Nurse.
Every day you will monitor patient well-being through frequent observations, meticulously record vital signs and patient activities, and assist nurses with group therapy sessions and activities of daily living.
To be successful in this role, you must maintain accuracy, prioritize tasks, and treat all colleagues, patients, and families with the utmost dignity and respect, embodying our commitment to patient confidentiality and ethical healthcare practice.
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Assist with patient/family care needs from admission to discharge.
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Monitor patient on Q15 min. observations including (Q5, LOS, and 1:1 obs.)
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Accurately monitor and record patient VS and intake and output and daily activities.
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Assist Nurses with patient care to include Groups, Activities of daily living, as needed.
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Must be able to effectively communicate with patients in crisis situations.
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Assist in maintaining adequate stocks and supplies items.
Job Requirements
Required
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High School Graduate.
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Certified nursing assistant, home health aide, nursing assistant, or direct patient care experience required, along with two (2) years of behavioral health experience.
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Basic Life Support from the American Heart Association.
Where You'll Work
Dignity Health Woodland Memorial Hospital is Yolo County’s largest health care provider, serving the community since 1905. Woodland Memorial Hospital is a 108-bed acute care facility offering the most comprehensive range of health care services in Yolo County, including inpatient and outpatient surgical services, family birth center/labor and delivery, emergency services, home health services, palliative care, inpatient mental health services, sleep disorders center and cancer care services. With strong ties to our community, we believe in providing compassionate, high-quality health care to you and your family, close to home. Woodland Memorial Hospital is part of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest health care systems with a 22-state network. For more information, please visit our website here (http://www.dignityhealth.org/woodland) at www.dignityhealth.org/woodland.
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Pay Range
$34.37 - $38.82 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,469 open Patient Care jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$34.37–38.82/hr
- California median$29–40/hr105 hourly ranges
- US median$24–34/hr2,004 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $36.60/hr, is 6% above the California median midpoint ($35/hr) — in the middle half of Patient Care hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 165 open Patient Care jobs in California and 3,469 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- CVS Health32 open
- Kaiser Permanente30 open
- Sutter Health20 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Patient Care postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (905 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 2,051 of the 3,469 open Patient Care jobs (59%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Figures based on too few postings are left out.
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