Behavioral Health Tech, Emergency Department
Part-timeAtlanta, GAPart-timePosted 6 days agoStill listed 5 days ago
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Job overview
Northside Hospital seeks a Behavioral Health Tech for its Emergency Department. The role provides direct patient care and supportive services to patients with mental health disorders and chemical dependency, supporting their comfort and safety and maintaining a therapeutic milieu. The technician may also perform Emergency Department Technician duties. The posting prefers patient care experience in a hospital or inpatient mental health facility.
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Overview
Northside Hospital is award-winning, state-of-the-art, and continually growing. Constantly expanding the quality and reach of our care to our patients and communities creates even more opportunity for the best healthcare professionals in Atlanta and beyond. Discover all the possibilities of a career at Northside today.
Responsibilities
Provides direct patient care and supportive services to patients with mental health disorders as well as chemically dependent patients to ensure the safety and wellbeing of patients. Carries out a variety of patient care activities which support the maintenance of the therapeutic milieu, and which meet the patient's needs for comfort and safety. May also perform the duties and responsibilities of an Emergency Department Technician.
Qualifications
REQUIRED
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Associates Degree or Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling or other behavioral health related fields, with one (1) year of experience in the behavioral health field setting, OR three (3) years of experience in psychiatric settings in a clinical/direct patient care job.
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Must hold American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)
PREFERRED
- Patient care experience in a hospital or inpatient mental health facility
Work Hours: 7p-7a Weekend Requirements: Yes
How this job compares
Set against the 354 open Behavioral Health Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$19–25/hr162 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 354 open Behavioral Health Technician jobs across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most across the US
- Sevita20 open
- Amergis16 open
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- 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 (140 postings).
- Education
- 11 of the 354 open Behavioral Health Technician jobs (3%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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