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Mental Health Technician Trainee
Job in
Centralia, Marion County, Illinois, 62801, USA
Listed on 2026-04-21
Listing for:
State of Illinois
Full Time, Apprenticeship/Internship
position Listed on 2026-04-21
Job specializations:
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Healthcare
Mental Health, Healthcare Nursing
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Centralia
Job
Requisition
Opening Date: 08/27/2025
Closing Date: 08/26/2026
Agency:
Department of Human Services
Class
Title:
MENTAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN TRAINEE - 27020
Skill Option:
None
Bilingual Option:
None
Salary:
Anticipated Salary: $4,128 - $5,450 per month ($49,536 - $65,400 per year)
Job Type: Salaried
Category:
Full Time
County:
Clinton
Number of Vacancies : 100
Bargaining Unit Code: RC009 Institutional Employees, AFSCME
Merit Comp Code:
This position is a union position; therefore, provisions of the relevant collective bargaining agreement/labor contract apply to the filling of this position.
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Position Overview
The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a Mental Health Technician Trainee at the Murray Developmental Center located in Centralia, Illinois. The incumbent will, for a period of time from six (6) and not to exceed twelve (12) months, receive instruction and training in providing care for individuals with developmental disabilities. Conducts activities and programs and escorting of individuals to participate in the receipt of community services.
Attends formal classes for instruction in the basic elements of nursing practices and techniques and to gain an elementary understanding of the causes, nature, treatment and habilitation of mental illness or developmental disabilities.
Essential Functions
* For a period from six (6) and not to exceed twelve (12) months, receives instruction and training in caring for individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities.
* Observes the technical staff in the general performance of technical duties carried out within a unit/cottage related to resident's general care and management in compliance of resident's rehabitation plan.
* Receives training in techniques of observation of residents, reports on their behavior and interacts with them in a positive manner.
* Maintains a safe, clean, and orderly unit by performing general housekeeping tasks, such as spot mopping, cleaning spills, wiping tables and making of beds and lifting up 50 pounds.
* Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonably within the scope of the duties enumerated above.
Minimum Qualifications
* Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of high school.
Conditions of Employment
* Requires ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
* Requires the ability to physically restrain individuals as necessary to prevent injury to the individual or others.
* Requires the ability to work after business hours, weekends, and holidays.
* Requires the ability to utilize office equipment, including personal computers.
* Requires the ability to travel in performance of job duties.
* Requires the ability to pass standard Physical Agility testing.
* Requires ability to pass the IDHS background check.
* Requiries ability to pass a drug screen for drugs prohibited from recreational use under Illinois Law.
* All conditions of employment listed are incorporated and related to any of the job duties as listed in the job description.
Work Hours:
24/7 Variable shifts.
Work Location:
1535 W McCord St, Centralia, Illinois, 62801
Division of Developmental Disabilities
Murray Developmental Center
Training
Agency Contact: DHS.Hiring Unit
Posting Group:
Health Services;
Social Services
* Please note, trainee positions are filled on a…
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