Join the Team Making a Difference in Missouri’s Mental Health
Empowering lives, fostering resilience, and providing compassionate care.
Explore rewarding career opportunities with the Missouri Department of Mental Health.
Agency

The St. Louis Forensic Treatment Center is a state-funded psychiatric facility providing inpatient and outpatient mental health services for adults committed through the court system, with campuses in North and South St. Louis.

Hawthorn Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, Missouri’s only free-standing state-operated children’s psychiatric facility, provides compassionate inpatient treatment to help youth stabilize and build the skills needed to return successfully to their communities.

Situated in South St. Louis, this center offers programs to improve the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families; in a residential setting, individuals receive therapeutic services and supports aimed at promoting independence and living productively.
Positions

Support Care Assistants
This role involves direct care tasks, helping clients with daily activities like feeding, bathing, and dressing. Responsibilities include monitoring vital signs, recording fluid intake/output, reporting on client conditions, and potentially managing medications. It may also involve some security tasks in a mental health care setting.
Qualification:
Typically requires 0–1 year of experience; substitutions may be possible.

Registered Nurses
Work as a key member of a multidisciplinary team providing psychiatric and medical care to individuals with mental illness. The role includes assessing patients, supervising nursing staff, administering medications, and responding to crisis situations in a forensic psychiatric setting.
Qualification:
Must hold RN licensure, with 0–3 years of experience; recent graduates may practice temporarily.
Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in Missouri.
