Onsite Behavioral Health Support Specialist

Summit BHC Las Cruces LLC; Las Cruces (NM); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Summit BHC Las Cruces LLC seeks a Behavioral Health Associate I to support a multidisciplinary treatment team at its Las Cruces, NM facility. The role emphasizes patient safety, supervision, and data recording, with opportunities to participate in group activities and crisis response.

Requirements include a high school diploma or equivalent, six months of related experience preferred, and CPR/de-escalation training; First aid may be required.

Qualifications

• High school diploma 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.

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.
• Organizes 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

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Summit BHC Las Cruces LLC seeks a Behavioral Health Associate I to support a multidisciplinary treatment team at its Las Cruces, NM facility. The role emphasizes patient safety, supervision, and data recording, with opportunities to participate in group activities and crisis response.

Requirements include a high school diploma or equivalent, six months of related experience preferred, and CPR/de-escalation training; First aid may be required.