What are the responsibilities and job description for the Behavioral Health Associate Lead - 1st Shift position at Mountain Laurel Recovery Center?
Behavioral Health Associate Lead - 1st Shift | Mountain Laurel Recovery Center | Westfield, Pennsylvania
About the Job:
The Lead Behavioral Health Associate III 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:
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.
About the Job:
The Lead Behavioral Health Associate III 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:
- Ensures the wellbeing of clients and provides a safe, positive, supportive, and structured environment. Maintains a constant awareness and supervision of clients.
- Conducts safety checks, ensuring that supervision is conducted at intervals in accordance with individualized supervision guidelines.
- Checks clients for contraband and manages the client’s valuables and belongings.
- Interacts routinely with clients, observes behaviors and communicates significant observations to supervisor. Promotes interest in recreational activities.
- Engages with client in activities and interactions designed to encourage achievement of treatment goals.
- Leads or co-leads 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.
- Documents in client records timely, accurately, and appropriately.
- Applies de-escalation techniques to help manage client’s emotions, behavior and participation in treatment.
- Assists with unit cleaning, organization of new admits charts, discharge process, filing, etc. Initiates client/employee incident reports.
- Provides transfer or transportation for client or coordinates transportation with appropriate staff member, as required.
- Provides verbal report/briefing to the oncoming shift.
- Serves as a resource for new clients introducing them to other clients and staff, explaining programs and encouraging participation. Orients clients to the activities program, explaining the benefits of activities.
- Maintains an awareness of client's needs and individual goals while motivating clients towards activities which are beneficial to them. Observes clients’ interest levels and behaviors.
- Assists with activity planning by offering new activity ideas and diverse therapeutic recreation program.
- Organizes and sets up the equipment that is used in recreational activities. Provides clients with activity resources and supplies, as needed.
- Enforces safety rules to prevent injury and modifies activities to suit the needs of specific groups.
- Helps to develop and maintain departmental resources, sharing the responsibility to monitor equipment and supplies.
- Helps with admissions and discharges if needed.
- Participates in rehabilitation and treatment programs as well as teach strategies to promote client wellness and independence, as needed.
- Ensures that the program schedule is being followed and reports to supervisor variances to program schedule.
- Ensures or assists with assignments for BHAs, group coverage, charting, breaks, environmental and safety rounds and codes.
- Assists in providing guidance and direction to other BHAs, including mentoring of new staff.
- Performs day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining files and processing paperwork.
- Coordinates and leads the work and activities of others, including scheduling programs and activities.
- Maintains inventory of unit supplies.
- High school graduate or equivalent. Associate or Bachelor degree in human service field from an accredited college or university preferred.
- At least two years’ experience as a BHA required.
- Two or more years’ experience working with the specific population of the facility required.
- Knowledge of common psychiatric disorders and/or dual diagnosis and various treatment modalities of the population served required.
- Advanced de-escalation skills required.
- 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.
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.
