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.
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.

Support Care Professional
Work as part of an interdisciplinary team supporting individuals with developmental disabilities. Responsibilities include implementing and monitoring individualized habilitation plans, observing behavior, assisting with positive behavior supports, and training or guiding direct care staff. Provide hands-on support, document progress, and follow all Safety Care procedures to maintain a safe and therapeutic environment.
Qualification:
One year of experience providing services to a person with intellectual disabilities
Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Physical Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, Recreation, or Human Services (sociology, special education, rehabilitation counseling, or psychology).








