Behavioral Health Technician II | Adolescent Unit

Position Highlights

This position may be eligible for a $3,000 Sign on Bonus.

Why is Behavioral Health important?

The Avera Behavioral Health Adolescent & Child Unit are designed to be a structured and age-appropriate therapeutic environment for adolescents and children to learn to understand problems, use healthy coping skills and set and complete goals.

What you will do

• Works with individual patients in a 1-on-1 setting or in a group setting that is consistent with the nursing care needs of the patient and the inter-disciplinary treatment plan.
• Participates in the daily inter-disciplinary treatment team meeting as needed, providing input in terms of patient behaviors and interactions with others.
• Implements suicide precautions as needed.
• Affords assessments changes in patient’s condition/behavior and notifies RN.
• Affords assistance with patient and family programs as well as being continually cognizant of the safety and welfare of all participants.
• Affords assistance with the activities of daily living care of the patients to include, but not limited to: vital signs, collection of specimens, and other general nursing care procedures.
• Affords assessment of individual patient needs and provides input in creating and modifying the nursing care plan and affords assistance with implementing necessary therapeutic activities.
• Maintains accurate and concise records, documenting promptly all pertinent information in the patient’s EMR.
• Affords assessment of impending agitation and escalation of behavioral changes and affords participation in the behavioral management of these patients.
• Researches, plans, and implements the updating and development of new therapeutic patient groups with oversight from the Programming Committee.

Required Qualifications

• The individual must be able to work the hours specified.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1-3 years related experience

Essential Qualifications

• The individual must be able to work the hours specified.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.

Benefits

• PTO available day 1 for eligible hires.
• Up to 5% employer matching contribution for retirement.
• Avera is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to qualifying part-time and full-time employees.
• Benefits are designed to meet needs of today and into the future.