Behavioral Health Technician II | Behavioral Health | Child Unit

Location:

Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls

Worker Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends/holidays (United States of America)

Pay Range:

The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.

$20.75 - $31.50

Position Highlights

*This position may be eligible for a $3,000 sign on bonus*

This is a core Child Program position and is also cross trained to work in Adolescent Addiction and Adolescent Program.

About our Programs:

The Avera Behavioral Health Adolescent & Child Units 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.

You will enjoy this Behavioral Health setting if you are someone that:

• Has a passion for working with adolescents on their addiction recovery path.
• Is dynamic and flexible
• Enjoys the ability to work in multiple patient care settings (Addiction Care with cross training to the Child/Adolescent Program)
• Enjoys patient focused care with a team that is dedicated to quality patients outcomes
• Has a passion helping patients with conditions such as Addiction, Anxiety Disorders, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Depression or Suicidal behavior.
• Appreciates an active, challenging care environment that requires critical thinking.
• Values autonomous professional nursing practice.
• Possesses motivation to help create and delivery high-quality patient care in an energizing team environment.

Unit Highlights:

• Adolescent Addition is a 8 bed residential program
• Adolescent program is a 40 bed unit
• Child unit is a 14 bed unit
• Opportunity to meet 70+ coworkers
• Opportunity to change lives of both Adolescent and Children
• Self-scheduling program
• Student Loan Repayment: This BHT position is eligible for Avera’s Student Loan Repayment Program, which helps you pay off your loans and save money. Each month an extra payment of $167 (up to $10,000) from Avera will help pay down your principal balance faster.

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview

Provides physical and psychological care to patients under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse. Assumes responsibility and accountability for individual actions and outcomes of patient care delivered.

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.
• Assesses changes in patient’s condition/behavior and notifies RN.
• Assists with patient and family programs as well as being continually cognizant of the safety and welfare of all participants.
• Assists 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.
• Assesses individual patient needs and provides input in creating and modifying the nursing care plan and assists with implementing necessary therapeutic activities.
• Maintains accurate and concise records, documenting promptly all pertinent information in the patient’s EMR.
• Assesses impending agitation and escalation of behavioral changes and participates 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.

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. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be mad