BHT - Full TIme 7a-330p, rotating weekends

Behavioral Health Associate I

The Behavioral Health Associate I serves as an integral part of the multidisciplinary treatment team and is responsible for monitoring and reporting of client behaviors; providing continuous client care, supervision, interaction, and role modeling; assisting in client data collection, recording, and maintenance; and responding in crisis situations and medical emergencies as needed.

Roles and responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the wellbeing of clients and providing a safe, positive, supportive, and structured environment. Maintaining a constant awareness and supervision of clients.
• Conducting safety checks, ensuring that supervision is conducted at intervals in accordance with individualized supervision guidelines.
• Checking clients for contraband and managing the client's valuables and belongings.
• Interacting routinely with clients, observing behaviors and communicating significant observations to supervisor. Promoting interest in recreational activities.
• Engaging with client in activities and interactions designed to encourage achievement of treatment goals.
• Facilitating client educational-rehabilitative groups which cover a variety of topics including social skills, coping skills, anger management and independent living skills.
• May take and record vital signs properly and communicates significant changes in client's condition to the charge nurse.
• Documenting in client records timely, accurately, and appropriately.
• Applying de-escalation techniques to help manage client's emotions, behavior and participation in treatment.
• Assisting with unit cleaning, organization of new admits charts, discharge process, filing, etc. Initiating client/employee incident reports.
• Providing transfer or transportation for client or coordinating transportation with appropriate staff member, as required.
• Providing verbal report/briefing to the oncoming shift.
• Serving as a resource for new clients introducing them to other clients and staff, explaining programs and encouraging participation. Orienting clients to the activities program, explaining the benefits of activities.
• Maintaining an awareness of client's needs and individual goals while motivating clients towards activities which are beneficial to them. Observing clients' interest levels and behaviors.
• Assisting with activity planning by offering new activity ideas and diverse therapeutic recreation program.
• Organizing and setting up the equipment that is used in recreational activities. Providing clients with activity resources and supplies, as needed.
• Enforcing safety rules to prevent injury and modifying activities to suit the needs of specific groups.
• Helping to develop and maintain departmental resources, sharing the responsibility to monitor equipment and supplies.

High school graduate or equivalent. Six months or more experience working with the specific population of the facility preferred. Knowledge of common psychiatric disorders and/or dual diagnosis and various treatment modalities of the population served preferred. CPR and de-escalation certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility). First aid may be required based on state or facility requirements.

The Farley Center offers a comprehensive benefit plan and a competitive salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. Qualified candidates should apply by submitting a resume. The Farley Center is an EOE. Veterans and military spouses are highly encouraged to apply. Summit BHC is dedicated to serving Veterans with specialized programming at our treatment centers across the country. We recognize and value the unique strengths of the military community in supporting our mission to serve those who have served.

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