Behavior Health Specialist CR Team

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care and management of children and adolescents while under the direction of a licensed professional, ensuring a positive, supportive, and structured environment. Intervenes and escalates safety concerns through appropriate channels.
• By position, may be required to assist new hires during onboarding process and less experienced team members ensuring competencies and skills are well developed and performed.
• Maintains therapeutic rapport, unconditional positive regard, and a non-punitive approach with patients independent of patient behaviors.
• Leads, monitors and collaborates on educational and therapeutic milieu groups for patients per unit expectations.
• Implements individual treatment plans and monitors treatment progress.
• Maintains accurate and timely clinical records consistent with CHCO and regulatory standards; ensures proper documentation of patient progress; completes 15-minute patient checks; and/or milieu management.
• Maintains competency in crisis prevention training and verbal de-escalation skills. May encounter escalated patient situations.
• Responds as part of the Behavioral Assistance Resource Team by location, as applicable.
• Manages and maintains safety of therapeutic environment/milieu of multiple hospitalized inpatient/partial hospitalized psychiatric patients at one time, as required by position.
• Observes and records patient behaviors and activities in accordance with unit-based clinical model/standard.

Minimum Qualifications

• Area of Study- Psychology, Social Services, Human Services, Education Biology, Neuroscience, or Related Field
• Four years experience above stated requirements may substitute for bachelor's degree.
• Basic Life Support
• Must obtain de-escalation training certification offered by CHCO within 90 days of hire
• BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association with at least 6 months left before expiration is required upon hire
• Must obtain de-escalation training certification offered by CHCO within 90 days of hire

Schedule/Shift

• 36 hrs FT
• three 12-hour shifts per week, required holidays and weekends

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.