MaxHP is hiring a Mental Health Technician. The Mental Health Technician will assist with the management and treatment of client behavioral health activities to support the well-being of SOF personnel. Mental Health Technicians are not licensed independent providers and work under the authority of a provider’s license.
U.S. citizenship is required. Candidates must possess an active U.S. Government security clearance or be eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance as required for contract performance.
This position is pending upon contract award.
Candidates should be able to support operations at one or more of the following locations: Tucson, AZ; Coronado, CA; Monterey, CA; Colorado Springs, CO; Washington, DC; Fort Walton Beach, FL; Tampa, FL; Valparaiso, FL; Columbus, GA; Fayetteville, NC; Jacksonville, NC; Clovis, NM; Clarksville, TN; Virginia Beach, VA; Tacoma, WA; Kadena, Japan; Mildenhall, United Kingdom.
At MaxHP, your expertise supports a mission that matters. As a joint venture between Maximus and Endurion, MaxHP brings together specialized capabilities and resources to support the POTFF Program, strengthening human performance, resilience, and mission readiness across the Special Operations community. Our professionals play an essential role in supporting the people behind the mission, helping Service members and their families remain strong, ready, and resilient. Here, your experience becomes part of something bigger: directly supporting those who serve at the highest levels of our Nation’s defense
About the POTFF Program:
The Preservation of the Force and Family (POTFF) program supports U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) personnel and their families through an integrated, holistic approach to human performance, health, and readiness. The program brings together specialized professionals across physical, psychological, cognitive, social, and spiritual performance to strengthen resilience, optimize performance, and support long-term mission readiness and career longevity.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
⦁ Under the supervision of a licensed psychiatrist, social worker, psychiatric nurse or psychologist, provide a wide range of behavioral health interventions from mitigation to treatment to individuals and who assigns work by defining objectives, priorities, and deadlines, and provides guidance on assignments that do not have clear precedents.
⦁ Under the supervision of a credentialed provider, shall conduct intakes, assist with care and treatment of psychiatric, drug and alcohol clients, and counsel clients with personal, behavioral or psychological problems.
⦁ Within the supervisory construct above, work with substantial day-to-day independence, performing a full range of standard and non-standard work assignments and resolving a variety of non-recurring problems encountered on their own initiative. Extensive guidelines are available; however, the contractor must use judgment in locating and selecting the most appropriate guideline for application to the work situation at hand. Unusual matters which may not be specifically covered by policy statements or published regulations shall be referred to by the Government supervisor.
⦁ Observe clients to detect behavior patterns and reports observations to licensed behavioral health staff.
⦁ Leads prescribed individual or group therapy sessions as part of specific therapeutic procedures under the guidance of a licensed mental health professional.
Location and assignment-type dependent; contract personnel may be required to perform one or more of the following tasks:
⦁ Conduct Intake interviews under the supervision of a licensed mental health professional Administers psychological tests, compiles data and prepares reports for psychological testing under the supervision of a licensed psychologist.
⦁ Administer psychophysiological tests and assessments under the supervision of a licensed medical/mental health professional
⦁ Populate and maintain a computerized database which will contain the listing of all units within the HQ organization and identify the number of service members assigned to each unit/Directorate to compile monthly training statistics.
⦁ Prepare daily correspondence (i.e., training agendas, meeting agendas, purchase orders, clinical appointments).
⦁ Collect and maintain monthly statistical data assigned workplace.
⦁ Prepare and maintain attendance rosters and statistical data for all active-duty personnel who attended Social Work/Behavioral Health services.
⦁ Assist in developing program operating instructions and working with providers, to uncover inefficiencies and make recommendations for corrective action.
⦁ Make comparison reviews, to include office time sheets, to ensure program operations are managed within budget.
⦁ Be responsible for the development and implementation of appointment templates for clinical providers.
⦁ Place physical maintenance work orders and maintain hand receipts for physical property and inventory. Ensure proper supply stock levels and recommend reorder as necessary including specialized behavioral health forms and tests.
⦁ Duties also involve assisting or independently gathering data for various presentations such as process improvements initiatives, longitudinal statistical tracking, hospitalizations, and discharges.
⦁ Manipulates data and presents it using off-the-shelf software applications.
⦁ Provide information via telephone and in person to the members of the Command, the professional staff, civilian and military personnel in response to inquiries regarding appointments.
⦁ Interface frequently with the Command’s family support organizations.
⦁ Maintain competency folders in accordance with program policy.
⦁ Coordinate attendance and agenda at Case Review Committee with military and civilian agencies.
⦁ Coordinate and reserve a meeting location, verify attendance and prepare current and tentative following week’s agenda.
⦁ Prepare open and closed case reports for the required special handling of client medical records in accordance with regulations.
⦁ Maintain a resource library for use by professional staff and customers. Library materials are selected with the intent of providing knowledge, ideas and support to practitioners in the fields of education, clinical social work and family studies.
⦁ Provide services to families desiring information on healthy family life and parenting skills.
Required Minimum Experience and Skills:
⦁ Possess an associate degree or commensurate level of training, e.g. military mental health technician, for a psychiatric technician or mental health program assistant.
⦁ Education requirement may be met by military or comparable training. If military trained, the individual’s specialty must be as a mental health technician / specialist.
⦁ Applicable psychiatric technicians’ training shall include a sound foundation / basis to psychology and/or social work, and they are well prepared for the types of individuals and potential illnesses that they will likely deal with. This training shall also address the basics of conflict management and how to de-escalate crisis situations and individuals who are agitated, violent or potentially violent and/or suicidal.
⦁ Trained to intervene and, when required, to restrain violent or potentially violent or suicidal clients by verbal or physical means. This training may be completed after hire, before the technician is assigned duties that may require intervention or restraint.
⦁ Minimum of three (3) years’ experience as a mental health technician.
Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.
Minimum Salary
$59,100
Maximum Salary
$124,100