Behavioral Health Technician

What you'll do

You're the person who helps adults get through some of the hardest days of their lives. You work alongside a treatment team to assess what each patient needs and then build a plan that's actually tailored to them. That means pulling in information from referral sources when someone's being admitted, completing admission assessments (minus the nursing components), and making sure all the legal stuff is squared away like voluntary or involuntary admissions, patients' rights, releases of information, and 5 day requests for release. You'll keep a working knowledge of advanced directives too.

You'll administer and score assessment scales according to protocol. You'll participate in interdisciplinary clinical staffings or make sure the team has what they need. You also develop, review, and revise plans of care for your assigned patients. The documentation part matters ; you complete it as needed, including those assessment scales ; and you always tie the patient's strengths, impairments, and interventions back to what's laid out in the plan so they reach their expected outcomes.

Therapies and groups

Group and individual therapies are a big piece of this job. You facilitate individual sessions, structured therapy groups, and psychoeducational groups based on each patient's plan of care. The therapeutic models you use will vary depending on the situation, but the primary focus is brief therapy with a cognitive behavioral therapy approach. Recovery principles aren't optional; they need to be woven into everything you do.

Documentation uses DAIR format ; succinct and goal directed. You recognize abuse or neglect situations and report them as required by law. When providing one on one situational interventions, you offer support, set limits, or help patients learn from whatever's happening. Groups start and end on time per the manual's outlines, though you can individualize content based on who's currently on the unit. Community meetings? You engage everyone who should be there. And sometimes parents or significant others come calling for updates on programming questions or patient progress ; you handle that too.

The milieu

Keeping the unit therapeutic is non negotiable. That means setting behavioral limits consistent with policies, each patient's individual care plan, and behavior modification plans. De escalation uses CPI techniques ; you'll need Crisis Prevention Institute certification within 3 months of hire by the way.

When seclusion or restraints are appropriate (which isn't often), you participate in applying them and monitoring patients in those situations while completing restrictions of rights forms along with other documentation. You provide supportive care to both patients and families. Safety rounds happen regularly as does helping patients resolve conflicts with each other. Stress management? Model it yourself.

Performance improvement

You assist with Performance Improvement activities on your unit ; generating ideas for better processes or treatment or patient care counts here too actively promoting customer satisfaction across patients families departments physicians everyone gets it Participating in Root Cause Analyses developing action plans implementing those action plans serving on unit committees precepting new employees following through on assignments from Nurse Manager or any committee its all part of how things get better Volunteers when assignments pop up aimed at real change

What you need

• A Bachelor's degree in social work psychology or a related field no substitutions
• Crisis Prevention Institute CPI certification obtained within 3 months after starting
• Fluent English reading writing comprehension speaking ability basic computer skills using word processing spreadsheets email web browsers plus critical thinking independent judgment when making decisions

A few more specifics

• The population here is adults dealing with behavioral emotional mental health challenges
• Your department isPeoria, ILbased Behavioral Health