PRN Behavioral Health Tech

Behavioral Health TechPer Diem

Compensation

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Posted 3mo ago

Job Description

About the Role

The Care Coordinator at Roots Adolescent Renewal Ranch supports adolescent females ages 13–17 in a 90-day residential dual diagnosis program. This role involves supervising daily activities, ensuring safety, assisting with therapeutic and recreational programming, teaching life skills, and maintaining a supportive, healing environment. Ideal candidates are compassionate, dependable, and committed to helping teens achieve lasting recovery and growth.

What You'll Do

  • Assist with the supervision of clients in their daily activities.
  • Ensure that the clients follow the clinical schedule and communicate any issues to the treatment team.
  • Make continuous rounds of the facility, rooms, and grounds, to ensure overall safety.
  • Seek out contraband and report any suspicions or findings immediately to supervisor.
  • Be proactive in ensuring that the rules of the facility and the rights of the patient are being upheld.
  • Communicate and/or resolve issues with housekeeping duties, and upkeep of buildings and grounds.
  • Assist program staff members with recreation, art, music and adventure-based activities.
  • Assist in monitoring and managing client community as a therapeutic milieu.
  • Assist in de-escalation and management of crises and perform CPR and basic first aid as needed.
  • Document pertinent clinical information into electronic client records.

Ensure that a welcoming, safe and healing environment is maintained for each patient and family throughout the continuum of care.

Supervise and provide life skill training to include, but not limited to, personal hygiene, washing/folding clothes, bed making, ironing clothes, choosing outfits appropriate for occasions and seasons, setting a dinner table, table manners, etc. as directed by the Program Director.

  • Foster a supportive environment for clients that follows ethical treatment.
  • Promote a favorable/positive work atmosphere that is based on a team mentality.

Qualifications

High school diploma or GED.

  • Must demonstrate an ability to effectively communicate to patients dealing with mental health and substance use disorders,
  • Flexibility in work hours and demonstrate consistency and dependability.
  • A passion to see individuals who deal with mental health and substance use disorders experience healing, life change, and purposeful living and believe that change can happen under the conditions defined in the Roots Adolescent Renewal Ranch vision statement, mission statement and core values.
  • Good physical health and emotional maturity.
  • Able to uphold the Roots Adolescent Renewal Ranch vision statement, mission statement and core values.

Key Responsibilities

The Care Coordinator supervises adolescent clients in a residential setting, ensuring safety, adherence to clinical schedules, and the maintenance of a therapeutic environment. They also assist with daily life skills training, crisis de-escalation, and documentation of clinical information.

Key Skills

Behavioral healthClinical documentationPatient supervisionSubstance use disorder supportMental health supportTherapeutic milieu managementSafety monitoringCommunication

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates PRN Behavioral Health Tech at BrentCare Behavioral Health a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 5% in Behavioral Health — ranked against 1,195 active Behavioral Health listings on WeekdayDoc.

Behavioral Health Career Context

Of the 50 active Behavioral Health listings this role was benchmarked against, 68% have no call, 46% require no weekends.

Behavioral Health pay on WeekdayDoc is down 1.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Behavioral Health by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Work-life score6.6 / 10 · top 5% in behavioral healthranked against 1,195 Behavioral Health listingslisting-based score, 0–10
Listed paynot listedBehavioral Health median $36k (middle half $35k–$40k)34 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingTexas index 97.1US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Behavioral Health listings in Texas63 active1,228 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 68% no call · 46% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedUS healthcare professional listings (all specialties): 4% state a sign-on bonus (median $3k) · 12% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Nov 2026
New Behavioral Health listings861 in the last 30 days503 the 30 days before (+71%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Behavioral Health pay trend−1.0% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index (1,195 Behavioral Health listings), BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Location & Logistics

Texas has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

Top contract/1099 Behavioral Health Tech Jobs

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Salary Distribution

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12
<$45k
10
$45k-55k
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$55k-65k
1
$72k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

21 jobs
401k / retirement match
100%
CME allowance
24%
Sign-on bonus
10%
PSLF eligible
10%
Loan repayment
5%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$23.28-$34.63/hr
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$26.91-$28.58/hr
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Work-life snapshot

median 1.5this job 6.6
Among the best 10% of Behavioral Health listings for work-life

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 1,195 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About BrentCare Behavioral Health

Mental Health Care
Brentwood, TN
51-200 employees

Living in Argyle

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$462k
Typical market rent
$3,225/mo
Residents’ average commute
36 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
103.1
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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