Behavioral Health Tech, Full-Time
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The Behavioral Health Tech assists in maintaining a safe, therapeutic milieu and identifying and de-escalating crises in compliance with agency policies. The role provides basic care, observes and records patient behaviors, implements treatment-plan interventions, and conducts groups with training and supervision. The employee also serves as 1:1 staff and follows close-observation guidelines in the acute inpatient program.
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Saint Luke's North Smithville | 601 S Hwy 169 | Smithville | MO
Full time
JobReq0049982
Job Description
Behavioral Health Tech assists in providing a safe, therapeutic milieu and crisis identification and de-escalation techniques for all patients in compliance with agency policies and procedures.
The minimum age requirement to work in this role for Crittenton Children's Center is 21 years of age.
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Performs basic care and observes, reports and records patient behaviors under the supervision of RN and BHT supervisor/manager.
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Implements the behavioral interventions described in the treatment plan.
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Conducts educational and treatment focused groups with patients as appropriate with training and supervision and within their scope of practice.
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May be trained as CMT to administer meds to our long-term residential population.
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Employee will act in the role of a 1:1 staff and will actively promote and follow (1:1 and close observation while awake-COWA) guidelines, on our Acute In-Patient Program.
Job Requirements
Applicable Experience:
1 year
Basic Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross, Heart Saver CPR - Various, Mandt Certified - Various
Associate Degree
Job Details
Full Time
Night (United States of America)
Saint Luke’s Health System includes 18 hospitals and campuses across the Kansas City region, home care and hospice, behavioral health care, dozens of physician practices, a life care senior living community, and more. Find out more about what Saint Luke’s offers:
http://www.saintlukeskc.org/about-saint-lukes
Are you interested in staying up to date on openings at Saint Luke’s Health System? Simply sign up for job alerts at https://careers.saintlukeskc.org/job-alerts When we have opportunities that meet your interests, you will receive an email with the job details.
Saint Luke’s Health System values our employees and we encourage them to apply to any internal openings. If you are a current Saint Luke's Health System employee, please apply through your Workday account by typing "Find Jobs" in the top left corner search bar. You can also follow the link below to the current internal career site to apply.
How this job compares
Set against the 398 open Behavioral Health Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$19–25/hr167 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 24 open Behavioral Health Technician jobs in Missouri and 398 across the US. None of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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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 (136 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 30 of the 398 open Behavioral Health Technician jobs (8%) ask for an associate degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 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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