The Opportunity:
Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City Crittenton Children’s Center in South Kansas City, MO is seeking a Behavioral Health Tech to assist in providing a safe and therapeutic milieu environment in compliance with agency policies and procedures. As a member of our team, you will play a critical role in improving the lives of children, adolescents, and their families.
Shift Details:
This is a Full-time Night position, 36 hours per week.
- Shift times are 1900-0730
-Weekend requirements include 2 Friday, 2 Saturday, & 2 Sunday shifts in a 6-week schedule period
- Self-Scheduling after completion of orientation
The Work:
-Responsible for direct supervision of assigned children during work shift to maintain patient safety in collaboration with the nurses, therapists, and physicians
-Observes, reports, and records, patient behaviors under the supervision of RN -Implements the behavioral interventions described in the child’s treatment plan
-Conducts educational and treatment focused groups with patients as appropriate with training and supervision
-May be trained as CMT to administer meds to long term residential population. -Crittenton Children's Center is the Kansas City area's premier provider of psychiatric care for children, adolescents and their families. We offer one of the area's most comprehensive behavioral health care programs. To be successful in this role, you will need to be interested and invested in caring for the emotional health of Children. You will need to be caring and compassionate.
Required:
-High school diploma or equivalent
-Experience with children required. Work experience, educational experience or volunteer experience acceptable. A bachelor’s degree in a related field will substitute for experience.
- Must be able to lift up to 50 lbs. -MUST BE 21 YEARS OLD TO APPLY -First Aid (will train)
-Basic Life Support (will train)
-MANDT Certified (will train)
Preferred:
-Associate or bachelor’s degree in healthcare or therapy related field
-Certification/Licensure in related healthcare or therapy field. Examples: EMT, Paramedic, LPN, or CNA
-Experience as a Behavioral Health Tech or in a related field. Examples: Education, Therapy Tech, or Healthcare.
Why Saint Luke’s?
As a leading behavioral health provider for youth in the Kansas City community, Crittenton’s residential and acute inpatient programs have consistently exceeded national and local quality benchmarks over the past five year. We believe in creating a collaborative environment where all voices are heard. We are here for you and will support you in achieving your goals. We are dedicated to innovation and always looking for ways to improve. Saint Luke’s offers competitive salaries and benefits packages to all of their employees:
-Medical health plans
-Continuing Education Assistance and Tuition reimbursement
-Leave of Absence, PTO, Extended Sick Leave, and various Welfare plans
-Retirement contributions
-Employee Assistance Program
Applicable Experience:
Less than 1 yearCert First Aid - VariousFull TimeNight (United States of America)
The best place to get care. The best place to give care Saint Luke’s 12,000 employees strive toward that vision every day. Our employees are proud to work for the only faith-based, nonprofit, locally owned health system in Kansas City. Joining Saint Luke’s means joining a team of exceptional professionals who strive for excellence in patient care. Do the best work of your career within a highly diverse and inclusive workspace where all voices matter.
J oin the Kansas City region's premiere provider of health services. Equal Opportunity Employer.
About Saint Luke’s
Saint Luke’s serves the West Region of BJC Health System as a faith-based, nonprofit, aligned health system committed to providing the highest levels of excellence in compassionate health care and health-related services. Saint Luke’s cares for patients in 65 specialty services across 67 counties in Missouri and Kansas. Saint Luke’s Hospital has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the elite hospitals in the nation. For more than 140 years, Saint Luke’s has been dedicated to enhancing the physical, mental, and spiritual health of the diverse communities we serve.
Saint Luke’s offers:
- The region’s longest continuously operating adult heart transplant program and one of the nation’s leading cardiovascular programs at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Treatment for complex brain and spinal cord diseases and one of the nation’s leading stroke reversal programs at the nationally ranked Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute
- The region’s only treatment center dedicated exclusively to treating metastatic breast cancer—the Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer at Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute
- Saint Luke’s Convenient and Urgent Care clinics for treatment of minor illnesses and injuries
- Liver and kidney transplantation programs
- A comprehensive maternal-fetal diagnostic and treatment center
- Three Neonatal Intensive Care Units, including a Level IIIb NICU at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
- Saint Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, the only comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospital of its kind in the region
- A nationally recognized children's behavioral health center, Saint Luke’s Hospital Crittenton Children’s Center
