Behavioral Health Technician II

Overview

The Behavioral Health Technician III (BHT) works in the Intensive Outpatient (IOP) and Partial Hospital (PHP) levels of care as a member of the treatment teams providing services to patients. Examples of services provided are activity and therapeutic groups; providing screening activities, education support for our child and adolescent population; conducting staff assisted exposure therapy, etc. The BHT III develops a resource database, coordinates discharge resources, arranges appointments and assists in facilitating treatment through communications with the treatment teams, other levels of care, and external agencies.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Supports the clinical team in delivering the cognitive and other therapeutic services to program patients according to clinical standards of care and under the supervision of the clinical supervisor / director or designee.
• Works in conjunction with the treatment teams to design and implement Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) specific behavioral intervention, ie Exposure Therapy.
• Work with the clinical team to determine resources based on patients access and needs to resources.
• Work with the therapeutic and medical team to ensure patients have the appropriate discharge resources internally with step ups / downs or externally in the community.
• Complete discharge documentation and Depart Plan, as required in coordination with the discharge of the patient.
• Arrange for appointments with aftercare / outside care agencies in collaboration with the therapist or medical team.
• Supports and leads patient (educations) groups, under the direction or in collaboration with the clinical team.
• Conducts expressive group activities to enhance the patients overall experience at Rogers. ie arts and crafts, music, games, psychodrama, etc, in cooperation with the (experiential) therapist.
• Supports arrival dismissal, lunch, and other transitional patient activities as needed, i.e., supervise children and adolescents during their lunchtime.
• Performs admissions tasks to ease access to patient care, including front desk coverage.
• Works with individual patients and implements treatment plans when providing coverage for Behavior Specialist and non-licensed duties of Therapist staff as needed.
• In coordination with the medical and clinical team collects / performs : medical testing, UDS, vitals, screening requirements, safety protocols, census management activities, etc.
• Participate in multidisciplinary treatment team meetings as requested.
• Monitor dietary intake of the patients, as requested by the clinical team.
• Provide structured, therapeutic milieu management in which a positive pattern of social, education, and personal behavior and coping skills is taught, reinforced, and enhanced.
• Support / Influence behavior management plans / programs for all patients and follow through with implementing each program.
• Complete educational assessments upon admission, informing schools of admission and collaborating with them on progress toward a transition back to school
• Collects and documents patient progress in the treatment plan, as indicated, to contribute to the overall treatment plan of patients. This includes education goals and ongoing progress toward goals.
• Acts as an NCI trainer.
• Performs other duties as assigned within the education, license, experience and training.

Education / Training Requirements

Pay Transparency Requirements

Compensation for this role is between $27.50 - $36.96. This location is operated under a collective bargaining agreement which will determine placement in the wage scale - all new hires will be paid at a rate on the scale and placed at that step of the scale, while all internal hires' wages will align to their years of service.Drivers License - Cert

Benefits

Transparency in Coverage

Through UnitedHealthcare, UMR and HealthSCOPE Benefits creates and publishes the Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Rogers Behavioral Health. To link to the Machine-Readable Files, please visit Transparency in Coverage ()

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