Inpatient Behavioral Health Technician — Acute Care

Sioux Center Health; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls is seeking a PRN Registered Nurse to provide physical and psychological care under RN supervision. The role involves 1-on-1 and group care aligned with interdisciplinary treatment plans, suicide precautions, and daily care activities.

You will document in the EMR and participate in care plan development. Ideal candidates have strong communication, teamwork, and critical thinking skills, with a preference for experience in behavioral health settings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Psychology, Social Work, criminal justice, education, behavior analysis, health or social sciences, counseling, alcohol studies, liberal arts, or any other human services and/or medical field or
• Associate's Behavioral Health

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Patient focused care

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Psychology, Social Work, criminal justice, education, behavior analysis, health or social sciences, counseling, alcohol studies, liberal arts, or any other human services and/or medical field

Associate's Behavioral Health

Job description

Avera Behavioral Health Center-Sioux Falls is seeking a PRN Registered Nurse to provide physical and psychological care under RN supervision. The role involves 1-on-1 and group care aligned with interdisciplinary treatment plans, suicide precautions, and daily care activities.

You will document in the EMR and participate in care plan development. Ideal candidates have strong communication, teamwork, and critical thinking skills, with a preference for experience in behavioral health settings.