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About the Role
The Behavioral Health Associate II serves as an integral part of the multidisciplinary treatment team, responsible for monitoring and reporting client behaviors, providing continuous client care, supervision, interaction, and role modeling. This role also involves assisting with client data collection, recording, maintenance, and responding to crisis situations and medical emergencies.
Responsibilities
- Ensures the wellbeing of clients and provides a safe, positive, supportive, and structured environment.
- Maintains a constant awareness and supervision of clients.
- Conducts safety checks, ensuring supervision at intervals in accordance with individualized guidelines.
- Checks clients for contraband and manages client valuables and belongings.
- Interacts routinely with clients, observes behaviors, and communicates significant observations to supervisor.
- Promotes interest in recreational activities.
- Engages with clients in activities and interactions designed to encourage achievement of treatment goals.
- Facilitates client educational-rehabilitative groups covering topics such as social skills, coping skills, anger management, and independent living skills.
- May take and record vital signs properly and communicates significant changes in client’s condition to the charge nurse.
- Documents in client records timely, accurately, and appropriately.
- Applies de-escalation techniques to help manage client’s emotions, behavior, and participation in treatment.
- Assists with unit cleaning, organization of new admits charts, discharge process, and filing.
- Initiates client/employee incident reports.
- Provides or coordinates client transportation as required.
- Provides verbal report/briefing to the oncoming shift.
- Serves as a resource for new clients, introducing them to others, explaining programs, and encouraging participation.
- Orients clients to the activities program, explaining the benefits of activities.
- Maintains awareness of client needs and individual goals while motivating clients towards beneficial activities.
- Observes clients’ interest levels and behaviors.
- Assists with activity planning by offering new activity ideas and diverse therapeutic recreation program suggestions.
- Organizes and sets up equipment for recreational activities.
- Provides clients with activity resources and supplies as needed.
- Enforces safety rules to prevent injury and modifies activities for specific groups.
- Helps develop and maintain departmental resources, monitoring equipment and supplies.
- Assists with admissions and discharges.
- Participates in rehabilitation and treatment programs and teaches strategies to promote client wellness and independence.
- Ensures the program schedule is followed and reports variances to the supervisor.
Requirements
- High school graduate or equivalent.
- At least one year experience as a BHA required.
- One or more years’ experience working with the specific population of the facility required.
- CPR and de-escalation certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).
- First aid may be required based on state or facility requirements.
Skills
- QMHP Certification Preferred
- Knowledge of common psychiatric disorders and/or dual diagnosis and various treatment modalities of the population served preferred.
- CPR
- De-escalation techniques
Location
- Portsmouth, Virginia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 1+ year experience as a BHA
- 1+ year experience working with the specific population of the facility
Education Level
- High school graduate or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $21 - $23/hour
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefit plan
About the Company
- Safe Harbor Recovery Center offers a comprehensive benefit plan and a competitive salary.
- Summit BHC is dedicated to serving Veterans with specialized programming at our treatment centers across the country.
- We recognize and value the unique strengths of the military community in supporting our mission to serve those who have served.
Equal Opportunity
- Safe Harbor Recovery Center is an EOE.
- Veterans and military spouses are highly encouraged to apply.