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Highlands Ranch, Colorado

LEAD Behavioral Health Technician-Evening and Night shifts

Behavioral Health TechFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Responsibilities

Highlands Behavioral Health System is an 86 bed, acute care psychiatric hospital located in Littleton, CO. Highlands features individual units for adolescents, adults, and seniors, and offers inpatient acute care, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs.

Website: highlandsbhs.com.

The Lead Tech is responsible for planning and implementing activity services for assigned program, which involves defining and implementing treatment goals as a member of the treatment team and provide continuous patient care, observation, interaction, and role modeling to patients under the direction of the CNO. This position functions as an integral part in the training of behavioral health technicians.

Benefit Highlights

  • Tuition and Educational Reimbursement Program.
  • Student Loan Repayment Program.
  • Challenging and rewarding work environment
  • Career development opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries
  • Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
  • Discounts on pet insurance, automotive insurance & homeowners insurance
  • 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
  • Career development opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries

SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program

  • More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website:benefits.uhsguest.com
  • Shift Hours: 8-hour shifts (7am - 3:30pm)

Questions or concerns? Contact the Human Resources department at HIGHLANDSBHSHumanResourceContact@uhsinc.com.

Screening of applications begins immediately and continues until the position is filled.

Qualifications

Requirements

Education: High School Degree or equivalent, required.

Experience

One year of related experience, with knowledge of psychiatric patient care techniques with understanding of mental illness, preferred. At least one year of experience training and developing other staff members in psychiatric patient care techniques or at least one year of experience performing similar duties at Highlands Behavioral Health System preferred.

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance, growing since its inception into a Fortune 500 corporation.

Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, UHS has 99,000 employees. Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates 28 acute care hospitals, 331 behavioral health facilities, 60 outpatient and other facilities in 39 U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

EEO Statement

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Key Skills

Mental illness knowledgeStaff trainingTreatment goal implementationPatient observationActivity service planning

Behavioral Health Career Context

Of the 50 active Behavioral Health listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 64% have no call, 38% require no weekends.

Behavioral Health pay on WeekdayDoc is down 11.6% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Colorado is 103.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.9% of Colorado clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top Behavioral Health Tech Jobs

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Salary Distribution25 jobs · 22 employers

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<$45k
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$45k-55k
2
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1
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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks22 jobs

401k / retirement match
95% this job
CME allowance
36%
Sign-on bonus
14%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$26.91-$28.58/hr
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Work-life snapshot

median 1.5this job 1.5
Better work-life than 50% of Behavioral Health listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,279 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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Living in Highlands Ranch

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$613k
Typical market rent
$2,597/mo
Residents’ average commute
24 min
State income tax
Up to 4.4%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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Benefits & Perks

Tuition and Educational Reimbursement Program
Student Loan Repayment Program
Challenging and rewarding work environment
Career development opportunities
Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off
Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans
Discounts on pet insurance, automotive insurance & homeowners insurance
401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan