Behavioral Health Technician (BHT)
Compensation
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The week · per this posting3-day week · 3×12s
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Job Description
Behavioral Health Tech (BHT)
Job Type: Full Time | Nights
Schedule: 3x12, Nights (7p-7a), Rotating Weekends
Your Experience Matters
Cottonwood Springs is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others.
As a Behavioral Health Tech joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier ®. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.
How you'll contribute
A Behavioral Health Tech who excels in this role:
Responsible for supporting the therapeutic milieu under the direction of the RN, by ensuring that the schedule/program is consistently delivered, patients are supervised, that safety is maintained, and patients and guests are treated with respect and dignity.
At Cottonwood Springs, we are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. Here, you’re not just valued as an employee, but as a person. As a Behavioral Health Technician joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve
Why Join Us
We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position
also offers:
- Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
- Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
- Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
- Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
- Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.
What We're Looking For
- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- CPR and de‑escalation certification required within 30 days of hire.
- Previous experience in a psychiatric health‑care facility with chemical dependency, dual diagnosis, psychiatric, or geriatric patients preferred.
- 1 year of experience working in a psychiatric inpatient setting.
More About Cottonwood Springs
Cottonwood Springs is a mental health and addiction treatment center, offering highly specialized inpatient and outpatient services for adults and their families.
We are a part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier® with acute care, rehabilitation, and behavioral health facilities from coast to coast. From your first day to your next career milestone—your experience matters.
We provide treatment services to those suffering from the devastating effects of mental illness and addiction. We believe long-term recovery can be a reality.
EEOC Statement
"Cottonwood Springs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Cottonwood Springs is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment."
Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier.
Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities.
We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.
Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier.
Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities.
We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.
We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.
Key Responsibilities
The BHT is responsible for supporting the therapeutic milieu and ensuring the consistent delivery of the program under RN direction. Key duties include supervising patients, maintaining safety, and treating patients and guests with respect and dignity.
Requirements
Candidates must have a high school diploma or equivalent and obtain CPR and de-escalation certifications within 30 days of hire. One year of experience in a psychiatric inpatient setting is required, with preference for those experienced in chemical dependency or geriatric care.
Key Skills
Psychiatry Career Context
The cost-of-living index for Kansas is 90.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.0% of Kansas clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Of the 50 active Psychiatry listings this role was benchmarked against, 80% have no call, 32% require no weekends.
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Work-life score | 6.4 / 10 · above average in psychiatry (behavioral health tech) | ranked against 149 Psychiatry (Behavioral Health Tech) listingslisting-based score, 0–10 |
| Cost of living | Kansas index 90.1 | US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 80% no call · 32% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Psychiatry pay trend | +17.4% vs prior quarter | —through Sep 2026 |
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) at Lifepoint Health a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Psychiatry (Behavioral Health Tech) — ranked against 149 active Psychiatry (Behavioral Health Tech) listings on WeekdayDoc.
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