What are the responsibilities and job description for the Direct Support Professional position at Embark Behavioral Health?
Overview
Behavioral Health Associate
Hourly Pay Rate: $18.00 to $20.00 per hour
On-site: 266 S Left Hand Fork Springville, UT 84663 (Hobble Creek Canyon)
Do you find joy in helping others find their passion in life or the type of person who finds themselves guiding and mentoring others towards their life goals? Are you enthusiastic and thoughtful in your approach with people? If so, the position of the Behavioral Health Associate with Embark at Hobble Creek is the perfect position for you!
At Embark at Hobble Creek, our Life Coaches are there at the residence with our clients to help guide and mentor them during those difficult moments. The care and focus that is provided helps the clients and their families move toward a healthy and healing home environment by assisting with communication methods, social skills, experiential, and academic progress.
Responsibilities
- Walking students through their day-to-day activities
- Ensuring alignment with their treatment plan that our therapists create for them
- Relaying any pertinent information over to the treatment team
- Consistent and thorough documentation and reporting
- Crisis prevention and management
- Maintaining a safe environment for clients
- Participate in staff bonding and house bonding activities
- Daily light housekeeping; sweeping, cleaning up/putting things away, dishes, etc.
- Enforcing a positive environment and being a role model
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Bachelor's Degree in psychology, social work or related field preferred, but not required.
- 21 years of age or older
- Able to pass pre-employment drug screen
- Able to pass criminal investigation background check
- Current driver's license
- Ability to effectively communicate and build healthy relationships.
- Ability to set and teach positive values
- Ability to perform CPR and First-Aid.
- Ability to safely hold or restrain an upset or combative student
- Skill in de-escalating agitated students.
- Preferred - One year of experience in a residential setting using relational, experiential, and systemic modalities.
- Seeking EMT candidate to use your skills in a different way to support adolescents in a mental health treatment program, preferred but not required.
Benefits
- Access to professional growth using our leading-edge strategies and trainings with our exceptional leaders
- Opportunity to foster relationships with adolescents and their families, create joy in their lives, and heal generations.
- Join a team of nationally recognized industry leaders who provide you with a framework of training, support, and long-term advancement opportunities.
- Paid training program (Mastery) for years one through three of tenure. Salary is increased based on completion of the three modules during this time. Convert to Merit increases after that three year time frame.
- Paid holidays, plus PTO accrual schedule
- Medical insurance with a generous company contribution towards a high deductible plan
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- Long-term disability
- 401K with company matching
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible Work Environment
Embark is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Embark is committed to enriching the therapeutic and healing experience it offers through the diversity of its employees and community. Embark seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse staff who will contribute to the organization's excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, and relevance in a global society. #L1-T1
Salary : $18 - $20
