Women's and Children's Program Behavioral Health Technician

Lewis & Clark Behavioral Health Services (LCBHS) is recruiting for a Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) position. The position will be responsible to assist clinical staff in caring for mothers and their children in a residential treatment environment at the Park Haven Learning & Recovery Center. The BHT will receive cross-training to also provide occasional support to The Core Center, which provides 24/7 mental health and addiction crisis care services for youth and adults, and the Ebel Recovery Center, which provides substance use treatment services for adults.

Employment Status: Full Time

Shifts: Straight Day or Straight Night

Weekend Rotation: Every Other

Holiday Rotation: Every Other

Reports to: Behavioral Health Technician Supervisor

Primary Duties – Park Haven Learning & Recovery Center

• Monitor patients and children for safety via routine safety checks, communicating information regarding patient’s behavior to other members of treatment team.
• Observe and document patient self-administration of medications, documenting errors and completing incident reports to improve medication administration process. Work with nursing staff and other techs on minimizing staff medication errors.
• Through controlled observation and direct patient contact and participation, educate, prevent, and intervene throughout the patient’s daily interactions including groups, 1-1s, structured recreation, and free time establishing a secure, positive, and therapeutic recovery environment.
• Role model appropriate social interactions. Encourage and facilitate patient’s participation in therapeutic activities and program schedule, enforcing accountability to program rules. Offer feedback, assign consequences, and provide therapeutic interventions to motivate behavioral changes.
• Engage in 1:1 supportive activities with patients and children, such as therapeutic communication and structured recreation.
• Maintain therapeutic posture with patients experiencing emotional instability, exercising self-control in volatile situations such as verbal/physical threats and/or confrontation. Assist in conflict resolution and de-escalation.
• Maintain patient confidentiality. Immediately report safety concerns related to patient care issues, maintenance concerns, property destruction, theft, or any other safety concern preventing or directly or indirectly impacting the effective provision of treatment services.
• Gather, record, and relate reliable factual information about general client behaviors including both positive and negative behaviors. Record unusual client behavior(s) or situations, including critical incidents in the correct manner, contacting designated and on-call staff when required.
• Participates in implementing patient’s treatment plans by monitoring patient whereabouts, communicating information regarding patient’s behavior to other members of treatment team, encourages and facilitates patient’s participation in therapeutic activities, provides feedback to motivate behavioral changes, supervises patients to ensure their safe involvement in treatment.
• Document and report objective and factual information about patient behaviors, unusual situations, and critical incidents as they occur, contacting designated and on-call staff when required.
• Supervise, monitor, and coach clients through schedule on assigned shifts, managing interpersonal conflicts, documenting medical and psychological incidents correctly as they occur.
• Assist with training of new staff members as required.
• Perform phone screenings for the facility’s 24/7 crisis line. Perform in-person screenings for youth and adults in crisis upon presentation to the facility, identifying potential risks and possible options for support/intervention, in collaboration with clinical staff. Perform breathalyzer checks and obtain vitals for patients, when indicated.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the leadership team.