Behavioral Health Professional - Hiring for 2nd Shift! Full Time and Part Time

We at Pine Rest believe in the power of healing and that everyone in our community has the right to expert care for mental health and substance use disorders. Our services include a state-of-the-art psychiatric urgent care center, a soon-to-be-built pediatric behavioral health center, outpatient, inpatient, partial hospitalization (day programs), assessment and testing, residential, addiction treatment, and specialty services such as crisis response, employee assistance programs, forensic psychiatry and psychology, and neuromodulation.

About The Unit

Lotus is a secured treatment program that provides intensive community transition services for youth aged 11-17. Designed to develop and enhance psychiatric stability, emotional stabilization, and self-sufficiency skills to ultimately help participants live in a more independent setting.

Responsibilities

• Provides a safe and secure environment for persons served and staff in both individual and group settings.
• Collaborates in day-to-day planning/development of person served programming and implementation of programs.
• May assist persons served with personal care (e.g., bathing, shaving, washing hands, styling hair, using the bathroom, dressing).
• Actively participates in safety management, crisis intervention, and prevention, including monitoring, assessment, de-escalation, implementation of restrictive measures, and emergency psychiatric and medical care.
• May survey, document, and report safety repair and maintenance needs.
• May perform household duties such as cleaning, cooking, and laundry.
• Drives and escorts persons served to community outings and appointments.
• Documents progress notes, medication administration, and other relevant information; reports immediate concerns according to departmental policies.
• Monitors and reports potential risks to persons served safety.
• May conduct random and scheduled drug testing and searches of persons served and their belongings.
• Completes reports and paperwork, including incident reports, infection control reports, and shift reports.
• Assists in teaching social skills, daily living skills, and behavioral and coping techniques to persons served and families.
• Role models the mission and values of the organization through appropriate social behavior and problem-solving.
• Provides spiritual, emotional, social, mental, and physical support to persons served.
• May learn and help accomplish treatment plans and goals of persons served.
• May perform basic office duties (e.g., answering phones, filing, scanning, using Microsoft Word).
• Supports and demonstrates a customer-friendly approach in accordance with performance improvement.
• Involved in training new staff.
• May support and promote a recovery-focused, person-centered approach within the program.
• Responsible for obtaining knowledge of medications required by the position.
• May be mandated to receive training in medication administration.
• Maintains annual training and demonstrates competency in required programmatic training.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled to obtain a bachelor's degree in behavioral sciences, with no less than 2 years (or 4 semesters) already completed.
• Must become certified in CPR by the end of New Hire Orientation (Basic Life Support for Inpatient programs; CPR/AED/First Aid for Residential programs).
• CNA certification or one to two years of college education is preferred.

Pay

The starting rate for this role is $20-$22 per hour base, depending on relevant education and experience. Upon completion of training, additional premiums and shift differentials will be added. The equivalent base pay range for this position is $15.57 - $29.64, excluding potential shift differentials, incentives, or bonuses.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans.
• 403(b) retirement match contribution by Pine Rest.
• Generous PTO for full and part-time employees.
• Tuition assistance and loan forgiveness.
• Employee Assistance Program offering free and discounted services (e.g., therapy, legal, accounting, gym membership).
• Partnership with Davenport University provides a generous discount on tuition for employees and family members.