Overview

Frontera Search Partners is recruiting a Psychiatric Technician – Camp Lejeune, NC for a full-time, in-person opportunity supporting military inpatient mental health care. The technician assists with patient assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, counseling activities, and daily care in a mental health setting.

The work combines direct patient support with observation, documentation, safety precautions, and coordination with mental health and nursing professionals. Responsibilities include helping individuals experiencing acute and post-traumatic stress reactions, supporting therapeutic activities, and recognizing situations that require prompt intervention.

Schedule

Coverage runs Sunday through Saturday. The normal schedule consists of six 12.5-hour day or night shifts during each two-week period. Each shift includes a 30-minute unpaid meal break. Federal holiday coverage is required on a rotating basis.

Responsibilities

• Conduct or assist with treatment and rehabilitation, including initial basic assessments such as standardized psychological testing, clinical interviews, mental status examinations, substance-abuse evaluations, and psychological assessments.
• Provide patient education coordinated with mental health and nursing diagnoses.
• Observe and monitor patients, record findings, and report progress to the care team.
• Conduct or assist with individual and group counseling, therapeutic community activities, and related milieu activities.
• Implement precautionary measures to help prevent patient injury or suicide.
• Assist patients with nutrition, hygiene, and comfort needs, and obtain and record vital signs.
• Monitor and escort patients and participate therapeutically in patient activities.
• Use sound judgment and crisis-intervention skills, including physical restraint when needed to prevent or reverse potentially harmful situations.
• Apply basic knowledge of psychotropic medication actions, side effects, and common dosages. Follow facility policies for administering and documenting scheduled and as-needed medications, and report errors, discrepancies, or adverse reactions to the mental health provider in charge.
• Screen patients through telephone triage or in-person evaluation to identify presenting problems and priority of care.
• Coordinate treatment, prevention, rehabilitation, and administrative functions with other agencies. Obtain collateral information from military and community agencies, explain mental health services, and assist with referrals to public, private, and military community resources.
• Prepare and maintain treatment records, specialty-service records, and reports.

Qualifications

Required

Applicants must meet the education requirements and one of the additional credential pathways below.

• Certificate-level qualification and graduation from an accredited Psychiatric Technician program; OR equivalent education and experience meeting American Association of Psychiatric Technicians requirements; OR qualifying military behavioral-science specialist/technician education and experience, with proof of an Armed Forces psychiatric technician course or an accredited civilian course in behavioral health patient care.
• At least one year of full-time experience within the preceding two years as a Psychiatric Technician in a mental health setting.
• Current American Association of Psychiatric Technicians certification; OR evidence of completed military psychiatric technician training or equivalent; OR an Associate of Arts degree in behavioral science, a bachelor’s degree in Psychology, or a degree in Sociology or a related behavioral science field.
• Current American Heart Association or American Red Cross Basic Life Support certification.
• Ability to pass a government background check/security clearance.

Apply

Contact Audrey Williams at Frontera Search Partners at awilliams@fronterasearch.com to discuss your training, recent mental health experience, and shift availability. You can also choose a time on Audrey’s calendar.