Job Title: Behavioral Health Technician
Location: Saint Charles, MO
Department: Recovery Services
Employment Type: Full-Time or Part-Time
Opportunities Available:Adult & Youth Programs
✅ Starting at $17/hr +
✅ No Prior Behavioral Health Experience Required
✅ Hands-on, Fully Paid Training Provided
✅ Build a Meaningful Career While Helping Others
Are you compassionate, dependable, and looking for meaningful work where you can help others every day?
As a Behavioral Health Technician (BHT), you’ll play a hands-on role supporting individuals on their recovery journey. If you're looking for a meaningful career where you can gain valuable experience helping others, this role can be an excellent first step into the behavioral health field.
This is a great opportunity for people looking to gain real-world experience while starting or growing a career in behavioral health, human services, social work, counseling, nursing, psychology, or direct care.
As a Behavioral Health Technician, you will help create a safe, structured, and supportive environment for individuals receiving care. No two days are exactly alike. You'll work alongside clinicians, nurses, and other professionals while helping individuals build skills, maintain stability, and achieve recovery goals.
How You'll Make a Difference....
What We’re Looking For
To get started in this role, you'll need:
Position Perks & Benefits:
Paid time off: full-time employees receive an attractive time off package to balance your work and personal life
Employee benefits package: full-time employees receive health, dental, vision, retirement, life, & more
Top-notch training: initial, ongoing, comprehensive, and supportive
Career mobility: advancement opportunities/promoting from within
Welcoming, warm, supportive: a work culture & environment that promotes your well-being, values you as human being, and encourages your health and happiness.
Brightli is on a Mission:
A mission to improve client care, reduce the financial burden of community mental health centers by sharing resources, a mission to have a larger voice in advocacy to increase access to mental health and substance user care in our communities, and a mission to evolve the behavioral health industry to better meet the needs of our clients.
As a behavioral and community mental health provider, we prioritize fostering a culture of belonging and connection within our workforce. We encourage applications from individuals with varied backgrounds and experiences, as we believe that a rich tapestry of perspectives strengthens our mission. If you are passionate about empowering local communities and creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported, we invite you to join our mission-driven organization dedicated to cultivating an authentic workplace.
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
Burrell Behavioral Health is a Smoke and Tobacco Free Workplace.
Brightli is the one of the largest behavioral health and addiction treatment providers in the U.S. We operate as the parent company of Burrell Behavioral Health, Preferred Family Healthcare, Brightli Foundation, Firefly Supported Living & Employment Services, Southeast Missouri Behavioral Health, Adult & Child Health, Comprehensive Mental Health Serivces, and Places for People (effective 7/1/24). Bringing these organizations together under one parent company is a groundbreaking solution to the healthcare needs of the communities we serve. Working under the parent company model allows us to share resources, increase access to care, and, ultimately, save more lives.
