Per Diem Licensed Psychiatric Technician - Emergency Department - Westwood
Los Angeles, CAPer Diem$43.87/hrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Licensed Psychiatric Technician provides nursing care to psychiatric patients under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse. The role implements and evaluates established care plans, carries out assigned tasks, and collaborates with nursing and multidisciplinary team members. The posting requires California psychiatric technician licensure, CPR-BLS certification, and at least six months of psychiatric inpatient or equivalent experience.
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Description
The Licensed Psychiatric Technician, under direct supervision of a Registered Nurse, provides nursing care to psychiatric patients by implementing and evaluating the established plan of care; carrying out assigned tasks; working collaboratively with members of the nursing and multidisciplinary team.
Salary: $43.87 - $43.87 Hourly
Qualifications
CPR - BLS through AHA or ARC REQUIRED
California Psychiatric Technician Licensure REQUIRED
At least 6 months experience in a psychiatric inpatient setting or equivalent - REQUIRED
The Licensed Psychiatric Technician/Senior Licensed Psychiatric Technician must have a working knowledge of:
Group dynamics
Psychological functioning and deviations from normal
Growth and development throughout the life span
Techniques of therapeutic communication
Drug administration
Management of assaultive behavior
Read documents written in standard English text
Write legibly in grammatically correct English
Speak to patients/families and colleagues using appropriate English grammar
Use techniques of therapeutic communication
Observe and report patients' behavior
Establish written goals and objectives for each activity
Plan and implement individual, large and small group programs/activities
Evaluate patients' strength and problem areas
Modify and/or adapt group techniques to improve individual and/or group treatment outcomes
Physically participate in patient activities
Physically apply holds, restraints and protective devices
Demonstrated ability to provide individual and group activities to psychiatric patients on an acute psychiatric inpatient
UCLA Health welcomes all individuals, without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin or disabilities, and we proudly look to each person’s unique achievements and experiences to further set us apart.
How this job compares
Set against the 15,898 open Nursing jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$43.87/hr
- California median$47–70/hr515 hourly ranges
- US median$34–44/hr7,074 hourly ranges
This rate, $43.87/hr, is 25% below the California median midpoint ($59/hr) — in the middle half of Nursing hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 788 open Nursing jobs in California and 15,898 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health108 open
- Kaiser Permanente92 open
- Maxim Healthcare49 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Nursing postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 6,795 postings).
- Education
- 2,121 of the 15,898 open Nursing jobs (13%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 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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