Behavioral Health Technician

Experience Recovery believes that everyone suffering from the disease of addiction deserves the care and environment to begin their healing. Treatment goals are to assist the persons served to achieve significant improvement in their quality of life through the reduction or elimination of the use of chemicals. In addition, we hope to see a consequent reduction in associated health problems and psychopathology.

Our vision is to create an organization that sets the standard of excellence in the treatment of addiction and other behavioral health disorder. We will develop a seamless continuum of science and evidence based treatment interventions that will allow a client to receive best practice treatment at any place and at any point in the life cycle of their disease. We look forward to maintaining our partnerships in the community in order to treat the whole person. Our employees will enjoy an outstanding environment that encourages them to grow both professionally and personally as we move towards new industry regulations and standards of care.

The Behavioral Healthcare Tech will be responsible for assisting clinical staff with the treatment program and acts as liaison to the client community. Supervise client compliance with residential program rules and guidelines.

Job Duties & Responsibilities:

· Orientates, welcomes and reviews client handbook with new clients.

· Consistently completes client-related paperwork at admit and discharge.

· Performs searches, deciphers contraband from authorized items; labels and stores luggage for safekeeping.

· Ensures client attend all scheduled sessions throughout the day and evening, keeps and files attendance records.

· Understands Client Handbook and consistently adhere to its guidelines, redirecting clients from negative behaviors.

· Provides transportation to clients while strictly adhering to vehicle safety and driving rules.

· Performs property rounds on a regular basis.

· Oversees client use of telephones.

· Conducts and records urinary analyses processes and results.

· Client medication monitoring.

· Client charting, recording client events/behaviors and communicating with clinical team.

· Client crisis intervention/prevention.

· Attends in-services and mentor trainings.

· Ensure with culinary correct portions are being met for clients with eating disorders

· Provide meal support during meals with eating disorder clients

· Assist ED clients in attending ED-focused support groups/meetings

· Understand clients’ individual meal plan/diet order to support client in meeting adequate nutrition goals

· Complete all shift change requirements and documentation by the end of each shift.

· Provides required facility housekeeping and bed turn for incoming clients.

· Notifies immediate supervisor or facility coordinator of facility or vehicle damage or repair needs.

· Other duties as assigned by supervisor, Executive Team, CEO

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $18.00 - $22.00 per hour

Expected hours: 16 – 40 per week

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Holidays
• Night shift
• Overnight shift
• Weekends as needed

People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply

Work Location: In person

Salary : $18 - $22