What are the responsibilities and job description for the Behavioral Health Specialist position at Promises Behavioral Health, LLC?
Position Summary
The Behavioral Health Specialist (BHS) provides oversight and support services to clients and staff in a residential treatment facility for adults with co-occurring diagnoses. BHS are responsible for around-the-clock supervision of clients and helping to create and maintain a therapeutic milieu for treatment initiatives. The BH-S position is an advanced-level position.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Provides case management support to clients with direction from clinician.
- Attends treatment team and provides non-clinical and case management updates; acts as a liaison between treatment team and client population.
- Plans and leads group curriculum as directed by Clinical Director.
- Has experience in a chosen “specialty” and provides specialty services to client population (i.e., legal/criminal justice, child/adult protective services, self-help topics/relapse prevention, aftercare/discharge planning).
- Has expert skills in “ATA blocking” and helps to engage other staff in blocking efforts.
- Assist clients with daily activities, adherence to schedules, and following program rules.
- Maintain active awareness of clients’ locations and attendance of programming.
- Observe, monitor, intervene upon, and document client behaviors and presentations.
- Maintain high quality documentation using appropriate forms in appropriate clinical language.
- Ability to perform responsibilities of Behavioral Health Advocate and Behavioral Health Technician.
- Facilitates non-clinical group sessions effectively within skill set and scope of practice.
Job Qualifications and Requirements
- Minimum of two years’ experience in the addition or mental health fields.
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
- Valid Driver’s License, required.
- Ability to speak clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; listen and get clarification; responds well to questions.
- Knowledge of organization, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to exercise sound judgement, be attentive to detail, and maintain positive work attitude.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of all medical, financial, and legal information.
- Ability to complete work assignments accurately and in a timely manner.
- Ability to understand and utilize program knowledge, such as the disease model, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed approaches, experiential approaches, CBT, self-help approaches, and evidence based practices in client care.
- Familiarity with acute intoxication and/or withdrawal potential, biomedical conditions that affect treatment, emotional/behavioral/cognitive conditions that complicate treatment, the stages of change model/readiness to change scale, relapse potentials, and supportive recovery environments for aftercare (the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) criteria for levels of care)
- Ability understanding of how to utilize medical knowledge, complete medication observations, observe and assess detox clients, and complete and document vitals.
- Ability to document thoroughly in an electronic medical record.
- Ability to professionally interact and communicate with clients, client family members, referral sources, and vendors.
- Knowledge of MS Office and office equipment such as copiers and scanners.
- Must meet pre-employment and maintain all applicable state and job related guidelines for background screening, fingerprinting, drug test, health screening, DMV, insurance, CPR/Basic First Air, and license/credential verifications.
