Mental Health Technician Trainee

Job Requisition : 49289

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: $4,272 - $5,641 per month ($51,264 - $67,692 per year)

Job Type: Salaried

Category: Full Time

County: Kankakee

Number of Vacancies: 100

Bargaining Unit Code: RC009 Institutional Employees, AFSCME

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The Division of Developmental Disabilities is seeking to hire a Mental Health Technician Trainee at the Shapiro Center located in Kankakee, Illinois. The incumbent will, for a period of time from six and not to exceed twelve months, receive training and instruction and perform entry level, routine personal care services, educational, social, vocational and therapeutic activities in the treatment and habilitation of intellectually disabled individuals at Shapiro Center.

Attends formal classes for instruction in routine nursing practices and techniques to gain basic understanding in nature, cause, treatment and habilitation of intellectual disabilities. Ensures compliance with Illinois Department of Public Health requirements when performing duties.

• For a period from six (6) and not to exceed twelve (12) months, receive training and instruction and perform entry level, routine personal care services, educational, social, vocational and therapeutic activities in the treatment and habilitation of intellectually disabled individuals at Shapiro Center.
• Receive training in the Interdisciplinary Team process and assist under direct observation, in the implementation of the active treatment/daily activity schedule on the programmatic unit.
• Through direct observation, achieve familiarity with each individual’s sensory, medical and physical condition.
• Maintain 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.
• Perform other duties as required or assigned which are…