BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN

• Job Location: Destiny Springs Hospital Main - Surprise, AZ 85378
• Position Type: Full Time
• Education Level: High School
• Salary Range: $18.50 Hourly
• Travel Percentage: None
• Job Shift: Graveyard
• Job Category: Health Care a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } Intake Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) Wednesday–Friday | 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM Make an Impact at the Front Door of Care Are you passionate about patient safety, compassionate care, and being the first point of support during a critical moment?

Join our Intake team as a Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) and play a vital role in welcoming, protecting, and stabilizing patients as they begin their treatment journey. This is a hands‑on, fast‑paced role in a behavioral health hospital where professionalism, empathy, and vigilance matter every day.

What We Offer We value our team and support your well‑being—on and off the clock.

Benefits Include

Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage Life Insurance 401(k) with Employer Matching Free Meal Provided While Working Consistent Wednesday–Friday (7:00 AM–7:00 PM) schedule Meaningful work in a mission‑driven healthcare environment Position Summary: Intake Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) provides essential patient care, monitors physical and mental health, and assists with patient admissions.

Ensures a safe environment by inspecting patient belongings, recognizing signs of aggression or crisis, and intervening as needed, including participation in restraint or seclusion..

Essential Functions: Under the leadership/direction of a Registered Nurse, will assist in the collection of urine drug screens (UDS), body & belonging search, glucose screening, breathalyzer screening, monitor and chart blood pressure.

Provide basic patient care and monitors patient activity, including physical and mental status, and reports to nursing staff. Inspects, documents, and secures patient’s personal belongings. Ensures that prohibited items, including contraband, are removed and secured.

Medications, including over the counter, are collected and given to a Registered Nurse. Utilizes a handheld metal detector to conduct security scanning to ensure that objects, including weapons and paraphernalia, don’t pose a threat to the safety and well-being of others.

Assist with patient admissions, including but not limited to, assisting patient or family with completing intake forms, obtaining consent, registration forms, transfer of patients to their assigned inpatient unit, and processing administrative documentation for the patient’s medical record.

Recognizes patients that are exhibiting aggressive behavior, acting as a danger to themselves or others, or are in crisis constituting a medical emergency. Provides intervention including redirecting of patients and/or participating in seclusion and restraint as needed. Monitors and complete Q15’s for all patients.

Provides care that promotes dignity, independence, strength, privacy and choice. Exhibits respect for diversity and boundaries. Customer/client focused and confirms with and abides by all regulations, policies, patient rights, work procedures, code procedures, and instruction.

Trained to assist team members in facilitation of “Mindability-Roadmap to Peace of Mind” curriculum. Perform other functions as assigned by RN, Intake Supervisor, Director, or administration.

Work Environment

This job is operated in a behavioral health/psychiatric hospital. Position is direct care/hands-on, physically demanding, and requires agility to stand/be on feet a minimum of 75% of work shift.

Ability to exercise self-control in potentially volatile situations such as being verbally or physically confronted in a threatening or aggressive manner. Must be able to work and concentrate amidst distractions such as noise, conversation, and foot traffic and be able to move from one task to another.

Must be flexible and not easily frustrated in dealing with differences of opinions. Able to address and prioritize multiple tasks within established time frames.

Position is not sedentary and requires ability to walk at a fast pace, stand, bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, reach, push, pull, lift (up to 35 lbs.), grasp, and be able to perceive the attributes of objects such as size, shape, temperature, and/or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips.

An ability to express and exchange ideas via spoken work during activities in which they must convey detail or important spoken instructions to others accurately, sometimes quickly and loudly. Ability to express and exchange ideas via written assignments effectively and accurately.

Hearing to perceive the nature of sound with no less than 40 db loss @ Hz, 1000 Hz, and 2000 Hz with or without correction; ability to perceive detailed information through oral communication and to make fine discriminations in sound. Performs repetitive motions with wrists, hands and fingers.

Competencies: Levels of Observation Breathalyzer Screening Group Facilitation Body and Belonging Search Safety Rounds Capillary Blood Glucose Monitoring Blood Pressure REQUIRED EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE: High School Diploma, GED, and/or work experience in behavioral health required Two years of behavioral health experience preferred Level 1 Fingerprint Clearance Card required BLS/CPR and CPI Certification required One year of intake experience is preferred.

TRAVEL: This position requires no travel.

Qualifications

Required Education / Experience

High School Diploma or equivalent work experience required. CPR certification, Basic Life Support, Behavioral Management Training required prior to patient interaction. Two years behavioral health technician preferred.