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: $4,128 - $5,450 per month ($49,536 - $65,400 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, receives training and instruction and performs 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, receives training and instruction and performs entry level, routine personal care services, educational, social, vocational and therapeutic activities in the treatment and habilitation of intellectually disabled individuals at Shapiro Center.
• Receives training in the Interdisciplinary Team process and assists under direct observation, in the implementation of the active treatment/daily activity schedule on the programmatic unit.
• Through direct observation, achieves familiarity with each individual’s sensory, medical and physical condition.
• 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.

• Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of high school.

• Requires ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Requires the…