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General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Variable/ Flexible Days/Nights/Mids 12-hour shifts
Posted Date
05/09/2025
Salary Range: $39.4 - 39.4 Hourly
Employment Type
6 - Staff: Per Diem
Duration
Indefinite
Job #
24210

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

The Licensed Psychiatric Technician, under direct supervision of a Registered Nurse, provides nursing care to psychiatric patients by implementing and evaluating the established plan of care; carrying out assigned tasks; working collaboratively with members of the nursing and multidisciplinary team.


Salary: $39.40 - $39.40 Hourly

Job Qualifications

BLS - Required

Psychiatric Technician Licensure - Required

At least 6 months experience in a psychiatric inpatient setting or equivalent - Required

The Licensed Psychiatric Technician/Senior Licensed Psychiatric Technician must have a working knowledge of:

  • Group dynamics
  • Psychological functioning and deviations from normal
  • Growth and development throughout the life span
  • Techniques of therapeutic communication
  • Drug administration
  • Management of assaultive behavior
  • CPR
  • Joint Commission
  • HIPAA
  • Read documents written in standard English text. Write legibly in grammatically correct English
  • Speak to patients/families and colleagues using appropriate English grammar
  • Hear ordinary conversation and other sounds in both face-to-face situations as well as in groups
  • Use the problem solving process
  • Collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary team
  • Use techniques of therapeutic communication
  • Observe and report patients’ behavior
  • Establish written goals and objectives for each activity
  • Plan and implement individual, large and small group programs/activities
  • Evaluate patients’ strength and problem areas
  • Modify and/or adapt group techniques to improve individual and/or group treatment outcomes
  • Physically participate in patient activities. Physically apply holds, restraints and protective devices
  • Demonstrated ability to provide individual and group activities to psychiatric patients on an acute psychiatric inpatient

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.