What are the responsibilities and job description for the Behavioral Health Technician position at Embark Behavioral Health?
Overview
Pay: $18.00- $19.00 per hourSchedule:
- Mid Shift: 1:00 PM – 11:00 PM
- Overnight: 8:00 PM – 6:00 AM ($500 Sign-on Bonus!)
4-Day Work Week | 10-Hour Shifts | Overtime Available | Rotating Weekends
As a Behavioral Health Technician, you’ll play a vital role in creating a safe, supportive environment for teenage girls facing mental health challenges. Your work helps clients build coping skills, reconnect with family, and move toward sustainable wellness using proven therapeutic approaches.
Responsibilities
- Ensure Client Safety
- Supervision of client emotional and physical safety
- Provide early intervention ahead of and during emotional and behavioral crises
- Maintain personal and professional boundaries
- Align and Operate within the Treatment Team’s Approach for Each Client
- Attend to daily Treatment Team direction for updates on client treatment protocol application
- Communicate and collaborate with supervisors and clinicians regarding client issues and notable progress
- Document client progress notes daily
- Provide Quality and Engaging Client Services
- Encourage client engagement in activities of daily living (ADLs) and coping skill applications
- Coach and develop client social skills
- Plan and facilitate client activities in art, music, yoga, fitness, and a variety of other on and off campus activities
- Grow and Develop with the Residential Team!
- Practice a growth mindset with focus and application of the company core values
- Integrate specialized trainings
- Enjoy and contribute to ongoing professional development and growth
Qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Bachelor's Degree in psychology, social work or related field preferred, but not required.
- 21 years of age or older
- Able to pass pre-employment drug screen
- Able to pass criminal investigation background check
- Current driver's license required
- EMT/CNA background preferred
- Ability to effectively communicate and build healthy relationships.
- Ability to set and teach positive values
- Ability to perform CPR and First-Aid.
- Ability to safely hold or restrain an upset or combative student
- Skill in de-escalating agitated students.
- Preferred - One year of experience in a residential setting using relational, experiential, and systemic modalities.
- Ability to plan, implement, and adjust to plans accordingly
Benefits
- Access to professional growth using our leading edge strategies and trainings with our exceptional leaders
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive Benefit Program that includes medical insurance with a generous company contribution towards a high deductible plan, dental insurance, vision insurance, voluntary life and AD&D insurance, long-term disability, 401K with company matching, and paid maternal leave.
- PTO accrual schedule.
- Opportunity to foster relationships with adolescents and their families, create joy in their lives, and heal generations.
- Join a team of nationally recognized industry leaders who provide you with a framework of training, support, and long-term advancement opportunities.
- Embark and team members embrace the core values of empathy, trusting relationships, service, growth, and results.
Embark is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Embark is committed to enriching the therapeutic and healing experience it offers through the diversity of its employees and community. Embark seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse staff who will contribute to the organization's excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, and relevance in a global society.
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