The Department announced a Final Rule focused primarily on updating the salary and compensation levels needed for Executive, Administrative and Professional workers to be exempt. For more information, see http://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/final2016/. Wage and Hour Division (WHD)
Duties. A behavioral health technician is expected to understand and implement individual treatment plans, record patient behavior and provide a safe, supportive environment for the patients. Technicians may provide and record patient medications and assisting in daily activities.
Behavioral Health Technicians work with psychiatric patients of all kinds. Your main task as a Behavioral Health Technician is to help them with activities of daily living: dressing, eating, participating in meetings or activities, and taking their medications (if any) on the proper schedule.