Mental Health Associate - Outpatient Behavioral Health
San Pedro, CAJob$25–33.07/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed today
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The Mental Health Worker serves on the nursing team under a registered nurse’s direct supervision, providing direct and indirect patient care. The role collects and reports information to the supervising RN or Charge Nurse and completes patient-care tasks and documentation. Additional duties include assisting with activities of daily living, taking vital signs, conducting patient observations and rounds, and observing safety risks throughout the unit.
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Description
The Mental Health Worker serves as a member of the nursing team under the direct supervision of a registered nurse providing direct and indirect care. The Mental Health Worker is responsible for collecting and reporting of information to the supervising RN or Charge Nurse and completion of all patient care related tasks and documentation. Additional responsibilities include ADL's, vital signs, patient observations/rounding and to observe safety risks throughout the unit.
Providence caregivers are not simply valued – they’re invaluable. Join our team at Providence Little Company Of Mary San Pedro Hospital and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we Providence know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.
Required qualifications:
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Upon hire: National Provider BLS - American Heart Association.
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Upon hire: Avade training
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6 months of experience providing direct patient care as a MHW in a behavioral health or chemical dependency inpatient, residential or outpatient program/unit.
Preferred qualifications:
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Coursework/Training
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1 year of Behavioral Health experience or related experience.
Why Join Providence?
Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.
About Providence
At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.
Posted are the minimum and the maximum wage rates on the wage range for this position. The successful candidate's placement on the wage range for this position will be determined based upon relevant job experience and other applicable factors. These amounts are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.
Applicants in the Unincorporated County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Unincorporated Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Requsition ID: 467513 Company: Providence Jobs Job Category: Behavioral Health Job Function: Clinical Care Job Schedule: Job Shift: Multiple shifts available Career Track: Clinical Support Department: 7017 LCMSP OP BEHAVIOR HLTH Address: CA San Pedro 1386 W 7th St Work Location: Providence Little Co of Mary-Outpt Behav Hlth-San Pedro Workplace Type: On-site Pay Range: $25.00 - $33.07 The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,766 open Behavioral Health jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$25–33.07/hr
- California median$29–34/hr57 hourly ranges
- US median$24–30/hr667 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $29.04/hr, is 8% below the California median midpoint ($32/hr) — in the middle half of Behavioral Health hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 87 open Behavioral Health jobs in California and 1,766 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Sutter Health15 open
- Maxim Healthcare9 open
- Kaiser Permanente6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Behavioral Health postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 890 postings).
- Education
- 666 of the 1,766 open Behavioral Health jobs (38%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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