Change Agent - Behavioral Technician

Location: The Maples – Fort Worth, TX


Schedule: PRN | 12-Hour Shifts (Days & Nights Available)

At The Maples Fort Worth, we believe healing begins with compassionate relationships. Our 24-bed Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) provides specialized residential care for adolescent girls ages 13–18 who are navigating eating disorders, mental health conditions, and mild substance use disorders.

As a Change Agent (Behavioral Technician), you will be one of the most important members of our treatment team. You will spend the most direct time with our residents—building trust, modeling healthy behaviors, ensuring safety, and helping create a structured, therapeutic environment where healing can happen.

If you're passionate about behavioral health and making a meaningful impact in the lives of adolescents, we'd love to meet you.

The PRN Change Agent provides direct supervision, support, and therapeutic engagement for adolescent residents in a psychiatric residential treatment setting. This position works closely with nursing, therapists, psychiatrists, and other clinical staff to maintain a safe, trauma-informed, and therapeutic environment while supporting each resident's individualized treatment plan.

This position works 12-hour shifts and requires flexibility to work days, nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.

• Provide continuous supervision of adolescent residents to ensure safety and compliance with treatment plans.


• Build positive therapeutic relationships while maintaining healthy professional boundaries.


• Support residents during daily routines, meals, groups, recreational activities, and community outings.


• Utilize trauma-informed care and verbal de-escalation techniques during behavioral crises.


• Observe, document, and communicate changes in behavior, mood, or functioning to the clinical team.


• Assist with crisis intervention while following facility policies and safety protocols.


• Encourage appropriate coping skills, emotional regulation, and positive social interactions.


• Maintain accurate and timely documentation of patient observations and significant events.


• Support a structured, respectful, and healing environment at all times.


• Collaborate with nursing, therapists, psychiatrists, dietitians, and other members of the interdisciplinary treatment team.


• Follow all PRTF regulations, facility policies, and confidentiality requirements.

• High school diploma or GED required.


• Ability to work 12-hour shifts, including weekends and holidays as needed.


• Strong communication, observation, and documentation skills.


• Ability to remain calm, patient, and professional during crisis situations.


• Must be able to pass all required background checks and pre-employment screenings.

We are specifically seeking candidates with experience working in:

• Adolescent behavioral health


• Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities (PRTFs)


• Residential treatment programs


• Juvenile justice facilities


• Adult correctional/prison environments


• Inpatient psychiatric hospitals


• Residential programs serving youth with behavioral or mental health needs

These environments provide valuable experience working with individuals who require structure, consistency, behavioral interventions, and crisis management.

New graduates are encouraged to apply if they completed behavioral health, psychiatric, juvenile justice, or correctional clinical rotations and have a genuine passion for working with adolescents.

The ideal Change Agent is someone who:

• Builds trust while maintaining professional boundaries.


• Demonstrates empathy without losing accountability.


• Remains calm and confident during behavioral escalations.


• Understands trauma-informed care and relationship-based interventions.


• Communicates effectively with both residents and multidisciplinary team members.


• Is dependable, adaptable, and committed to helping adolescents succeed.

At The Maples, we don't just manage behaviors—we help transform lives. Through evidence-based treatment, family involvement, and a compassionate multidisciplinary team, we empower adolescent girls to overcome mental health challenges, eating disorders, and substance use while building the skills needed for lifelong recovery.

If you're looking for meaningful work where every shift matters, we'd love to have you join our team.