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Lead Mental Health Tech

HCA Healthcare

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Location
Largo, FL
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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Basic Cardiac Life SupportCPI TrainingNonviolent Crisis Intervention

Job overview

The Lead Mental Health Technician performs basic behavioral health patient care under RN supervision and helps maintain a safe, therapeutic environment. The role includes crisis intervention, assistance with activities of daily living, patient monitoring, and participation in group activities. HCA Florida Largo Hospital seeks a candidate with one year of experience; a Certified Behavioral Health Technician credential and high school diploma or GED are preferred.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Behavioral Health Patient CareCrisis InterventionActivities of Daily LivingPatient MonitoringGroup Activity CoordinationLifting 100 LbsFrequent LiftingCarrying 50 Lbs

Qualifications

Certified Behavioral Health TechnicianPCT Training Within 6 MonthsHigh School or GEDBasic Cardiac Life SupportCPI TrainingNonviolent Crisis InterventionFingerprint Required1 Year Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave
401(k) Match
Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: Lead Mental Health Tech

Job Summary and Qualifications:

As our Lead Mental Health Technician, you will perform basic patient care services related behavioral health under the supervision of the nurse (RN). You will also assist the patient care team with maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment, crisis intervention, and activities of daily living. We are a family like team caring for each other as we care for our patients!

Delegated tasks may include:

  • You will obtain vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, calorie counts.

  • You will establish effective rapport with patients.

  • You observe, monitor and provide protection to ensure patient safety; this includes escorting patients and may even include restraining patients if needed.

  • You will perform bedside glucose testing and collection of samples for lab as needed.

  • You will assist the RN to collect data from patients on admission for patient processing and discharge preparations as instructed.

  • You will provide a positive role model for developing socialization skills.

  • You will coordinate and participate in group activities and encourage appropriate patient interaction.

Requirements:

  • Certified Behavioral Health Technician preferred, PCT training within 6 months of hire

  • High school or GED preferred

  • Basic Cardiac Life Support through the American Heart Association, CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention) training required for Behavioral Health.

  • Lifting 100 Lbs. maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 50 Lbs.

What qualifications you will need:

  • Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date

  • Nonviolent Crisis Intervention must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date

  • Other-Fingerprint Required

  • High School Graduate / GED

No Travel Required

1 years experience Required Years of Experience

Benefits

HCA Florida Largo Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

  • Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

  • Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

  • Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence

  • Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

  • Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

  • Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits (https://careers.hcahealthcare.com/pages/employee-benefits-and-rewards)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA Florida Largo Hospital is the premier healthcare provider in Pinellas County and beyond with 455 beds and is part of HCA Florida Healthcare, the largest healthcare network in Florida. Our hospital offers a wide range of specialty services, including advanced cardiac care, complex GI services, kidney and liver transplantation, weight loss surgery, advanced stroke care, and robotic surgeries. Our Graduate Medical Education program is affiliated with USF Morsani College of Medicine, ensuring that our patients receive the highest quality care from the most skilled and knowledgeable medical professionals. Pick HCA Florida Largo Hospital for all your healthcare needs.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in costs for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.

HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our Lead Mental Health Tech opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

How this job compares

Set against the 383 open Behavioral Health Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$19–24/hr154 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 16 open Behavioral Health Technician jobs in Florida and 383 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Behavioral Health Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (126 postings).
Education
14 of the 383 open Behavioral Health Technician jobs (4%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 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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