Psychiatric Technician - Full-Time

Annual Salary: $40,091

Shift Differential: $2.50/hour for evenings, overnights, and weekends

Available Schedule: 3:00 pm - 11:30 pm, with rotating weekends

Help Others. Make an Impact

Are you a compassionate Direct Care Professional, Mental Health Technician, or Behavioral Health Professional looking for a meaningful career opportunity? Join the Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board (H-NNCSB) as a Psychiatric Technician at the BJ Roberts Behavioral Health Center!

In this hands-on role, you'll provide essential direct care, behavioral health support, and supervision to adults experiencing serious mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders. Working alongside an interdisciplinary treatment team, you'll help create a safe, structured, recovery-focused environment that promotes stability, wellness, and independence.

Minimum Qualifications

One year of direct care experience working with adults with serious mental illness. CNA preferred.

What You'll Do

• Provide compassionate direct care, behavioral health support, and supervision in an intensive, short-term residential setting.
• Monitor client behaviors, document progress, and communicate observations to the treatment team.
• Support individualized treatment goals, recovery, and independent living skills.
• Facilitate therapeutic, recreational, and skill-building activities.
• Respond appropriately to behavioral and emotional challenges while promoting client safety.
• Maintain a safe, supportive environment that respects client dignity, rights, and well-being.
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to deliver quality, person-centered care.
• Follow agency policies, procedures, and safety standards.

Why Join H-NNCSB?

Make an impact every day! Join a dedicated behavioral health team committed to helping individuals achieve recovery, stability, and greater independence.

H-NNCSB offers:

• Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
• Virginia Retirement System
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Life Insurance
• 11 Paid Holidays
• and, more.

About H-NNCSB

H-NNCSB provides comprehensive mental health, substance use, and developmental disability services to individuals and families throughout Hampton and Newport News, Virginia.

Ready to Make a Difference? Apply Today!

Turn your passion for helping others into a rewarding career in behavioral health. Join H-NNCSB and become part of a team where your work truly matters!

The selected candidate must successfully pass a criminal history fingerprint background investigation, DMV record check, Child Registry search, drug screening test and employment reference checks.