FT BHA Day

The Ranch at Dove Tree, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ranch at Dove Tree is seeking a Behavioral Health Associate I to join our on-site team in Lubbock, TX. This role focuses on monitoring client behaviors, providing continuous care, and ensuring a structured therapeutic environment.

You will participate in crisis response, data recording, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team. Responsibilities include supervising clients, facilitating groups, taking vital signs, documenting in records, and coordinating with staff for safe

Qualifications

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Six months or more experience with the specific population preferred.
• CPR certification and de-escalation training required (training available upon hire). First aid may be required per state requirements.

Responsibilities

• Ensures wellbeing of clients and provides a safe, positive, supportive, and structured environment.
• Maintains constant awareness and supervision of clients.
• Conducts safety checks and ensures supervision per guidelines.
• Checks clients for contraband and manages valuables.
• Interacts with clients, observes behaviors, and communicates observations to supervisor.
• Encourages attendance at group therapy and promotes participation.
• Facilitates client educational-rehabilitative groups on social and coping skills.
• Takes and records vital signs and reports changes to charge nurse.
• Charts in client records timely and accurately.
• Applies de-escalation techniques to manage emotions and participation.
• Supports unit cleaning and organization of charts.
• Initiates client/employee incident reports.
• Provides transfer or transportation when needed.
• Gathers shift reports and prepares thorough handoffs.

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

FT BHA Day | The Ranch at Dove Tree | Lubbock, Texas

About the Job

Purpose Statement: The Behavioral Health Associate I serves as an integral part of the multidisciplinary treatment team and is responsible for monitoring and reporting of client behaviors; providing continuous client care, supervision, interaction, and role modeling; assisting in client data collection, recording, and maintenance; and responding in crisis situations and medical emergencies as needed.

Roles and 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 that supervision is conducted at intervals in accordance with individualized supervision guidelines.
• Checks clients for contraband and manages the client’s valuables and belongings.
• Interacts routinely with clients, observes behaviors and communicates significant observations to supervisor.
• Encourages attendance at group therapy and promotes client participation in unit activities.
• Engages with clients in activities and interactions designed to encourage achievement of treatment goals.
• Facilitates client educational-rehabilitative groups which cover a variety of topics including social skills, coping skills and independent living skills.
• Takes and records vital signs properly and communicates significant changes in client’s condition to the charge nurse.
• Charts 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, filing, etc.
• Initiates client/employee incident reports.
• Provides transfer or transportation for client or coordinates transportation with appropriate staff member, as required.
• Receives report from previous shift to utilize information in planning for shift and then provides an accurate and thorough report to oncoming shift.
• Serves as a resource for new clients introducing them to other clients and staff, explaining programs and encouraging participation.
• Orients clients to the activities program, explaining the benefits of activities.
• Maintains an awareness of client's needs and individual goals while motivating clients towards activities which are beneficial to them.
• Observes clients’ interest levels and behaviors.
• Assists with activity planning by offering new activity ideas and diverse therapeutic recreation program.
• Organises and sets up the equipment that is used in recreational activities.
• Provides clients with activity resources and supplies, as needed.
• Enforces safety rules to prevent injury and modifies activities to suit the needs of specific groups.
• Helps to develop and maintain departmental resources, sharing the responsibility to monitor equipment and supplies.

Education/Experience/Skill Requirements

High school graduate or equivalent. Six months or more experience working with the specific population of the facility preferred. Knowledge of common psychiatric disorders and/or dual diagnosis and various treatment modalities of the population served preferred.

Licenses/Designations/Certifications

CPR certification and de-escalation training required (training available upon hire and offered by facility). First aid may be required based on state or facility requirements.

Work Location

This position is onsite at the facility and is not a remote position.

Supervisory Requirements

This position is an Individual Contributor.

Why The Ranch at Dove Tree?

The Ranch at Dove Tree offers a comprehensive benefit plan and a competitive salary commensurate with experience and qualifications. The Ranch at Dove Tree is an EOE. 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.