Behavioral Health Technician III

Job Description

Full-time, Days

72 hrs/2 weeks

0700-1930 every other weekend and holiday

General Summary

Works collaboratively to facilitate a stable and smooth operation of the program and provides therapeutic interventions in accordance with best practice guidelines, client treatment plans, and policies; performs a variety of client care, case management and administrative functions; and completes details of the discharge plan and makes modifications in order to facilitate the successful discharge of clients.

Responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Assists in developing and executing individual treatment plans for clients.
• Provides day-to-day oversight of all therapeutic activities.
• Provides individual, group, and family therapy utilizing a wide range of techniques designed to treat mental illness, emotional problems, social and interpersonal problems, and functional deficits.
• Maintains an awareness of significant client history, present status, and any precautions in effect. Collaborates with other staff to provide input into treatment plans for individual clients.
• Orients family members to nature of therapeutic services and the specific program.
• Increases other family members understanding of client needs and progress.
• Promotes positive family relations, especially effective parental strategies.
• Exhibits clinically appropriate relational (e.g., accurate empathy, active listening) skills.
• Manages behavioral crises including 1:1 observation, redirection, physical restraint and team crisis interventions.
• Writes behavioral management plans for acute patients in cooperation with treatment team recommendations.
• Completes assessments as needed.
• Assists with medication administration and recording as directed.
• Communicates relevant client progress and participating in weekly treatment team planning.
• Maintains on-going professional relationships with personnel from schools, public agencies, and mental health and drug and alcohol treatment facilities.
• Addresses and resolving client funding matters.
• Conducts inter-agency meetings as necessary.
• Collaborates in appropriate treatment and discharge plans with client, guardians, and community agencies.
• Provides transportation in a WellSpan Philhaven vehicle to and from the program for clients that meet requirements and are in need of transportation.

Common Expectations:

• Demonstrates leadership through collaboration with other team members, maintaining positive solution-focused communication, taking initiative, leading by example, demonstrating open and consistent communication, understanding of diagnosis and clinical interventions, and investing in the development of growth of staff and the program.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span of the assigned client population.
• Assesses and interprets client age specific data and provides appropriate, age specific treatment.
• Establishes and maintains positive therapeutic relationships with clients.
• Demonstrates commitment to clients, visitors and other staff by complying with all applicable safety regulations, identifying opportunities to standardize processes and "error proof" systems that will lead to increased safety, and participating in safety education programs and root cause analyses as required.
• Maintains established policies and procedures, objectives, quality assessment, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, in-service meetings, and workshops.
• Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation.
• Attends scheduled meetings as required.
• Maintains proficiency in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) principals of de-escalation.
• Computer and keyboarding skills at a level normally acquired during business school training.
• Complete documentation according to established standards.
• All other responsibilities as assigned by the program director.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Minimum Education:

• Bachelors Degree Meets the definition of a Mental Health Worker under PA CODE 5200.3 (i) Has a bachelor's degree from a college or university that is accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or the CHEA in a recognized clinical discipline including social work, psychology, nursing, rehabilitation or activity therapies.(ii) Has a graduate degree in a clinical discipline with 12 graduate-level credits in mental health or counseling from a program that is accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or the CHEA.(iii) Has an equivalent degree from a foreign college or university that has been evaluated by the AICE or the NACES. The Department will accept a general equivalency report from the listed evaluator agencies to verify a foreign degree or its equivalency. Knowledge of current activities, therapy principals and group counseling skills/techniques Required

Work Experience:

• 1 year Behavioral health experience. Required or
• 1 year Social science experience. Required

Licenses:

• Basic Life Support Upon Hire Required and
• Driver's License Upon Hire Required

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent human relations and oral/written communication skills.
• Analytical skills.
• Organization and time management.
• Mental and visual ability to observe client behavior and document findings.
• Teaching ability.
• Customer service awareness and capability.
• Knowledge of current activities.
• Therapy principals and group counseling skills/techniques.

Benefits Offered:

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Education assistance
• Financial education and support, including DailyPay
• Expanded Paid Parental Leave

For additional details: Benefits & Incentives | WellSpan Careers (joinwellspan.org)

About Us

WellSpan Health's vision is to reimagine healthcare through the delivery of comprehensive, equitable health and wellness solutions throughout our continuum of care. As an integrated delivery system focused on leading in value-based care, we encompass more than 2,300 employed providers, 250 locations, nine award-winning hospitals, home care and a behavioral health organization serving central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. Our high-performing Medicare Accountable Care Organization (ACO) is the region's largest and one of the best in the nation. With a team 23,000 strong, WellSpan experts provide a range of services, from wellness and employer services solutions to advanced care for complex medical and behavioral conditions. Our clinically integrated network of 3,000 aligned physicians and advanced practice providers is dedicated to providing the highest quality and safety, inspiring our patients and communities to be their healthiest.

About the Team

WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital

One of eight premier hospitals in the WellSpan system, WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital offers a full range of leading-edge inpatient, outpatient and emergent care services. The hospital is noted for its distinct ability to combine state-of-the-art medical technology with quality, compassionate care to meet the needs of the more than 550,000 residents of northern Lancaster County and the surrounding area. As a full-service, non-profit acute-care hospital, with a 141 licensed bed capacity, WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital admits approximately 5,500 patients annually. Nearby WellSpan Ephrata Cancer Center supports the hospital as part of WellSpan's regional network of five cancer centers. WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital was one of several WellSpan Health hospitals honored by U.S. News & World Report with the High Performing recognition for 2022-23.