Behavioral Health Tech II

At Sharon Regional Medical Center, we are committed to improving the health of our communities by delivering exceptional, personalized behavioral health care with dignity, compassion, and respect. Our continued focus on the patient experience informs our caregivers in how to provide care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient and family preferences, needs and values.

We dedicate ourselves in the communities we serve to delivering affordable health care to all and being responsible partners. No matter what your role, as a member of the Steward family, you are a specialist in making every patient and family feel right at home, every co-worker a key to our success, and every referring practice, a team of prized colleagues.

In support of this, we commit ourselves to the following values:

Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Excellence

Stewardship

If you are seeking a fast-paced, challenging position in an organization committed to achieving and maintaining a standard of excellence in all we do, our organization may be a good fit.

Summary:

Sharon Regional Intensive Behavioral Health Services is a well-established program with a strong clinically oriented approach to serving children and adolescents residing in Mercer and Lawrence County. Our program promotes resilience, autonomy, and self-determination utilizing an eclectic range of intervention strategies deployed by a collaborative treatment team.

A Behavioral Health Technician (BHT II) is part of that collaborative team providing therapeutic interventions and support to children and adolescents in the home, school, or community setting.

The BHT under the direction of an experienced clinical supervisor implements critical problem-solving strategies, promotes behavioral stabilization, and facilitates skill transition as identified in the child’s plan of care. This includes providing the child with instructions/support to understand, interpret, and manage feelings and emotional responses to situations; collection of data for further interpretation of intervention outcomes; and aiding the parent/caregiver to address the therapeutic needs of the child;

Job duties:

• Support of problem-solving skill development.
• Instruction on how to understand, direct, interpret, manage, and control feelings and emotional responses to situations
• Aid the parent/caregiver to address the therapeutic needs of the patient; psychoeducational services related to mental health, including the development of improved decision-making skills to manage behavior.
• Aid with the development of socially acceptable behaviors, instruction on stress reduction, techniques; data collection; behavioral stabilization and interventions to support services.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Bachelor's Degree in psychology, social work, counseling, sociology, education or related field; or an Associate's Degree/60 credits towards a bachelor's degree; or a Pennsylvania license as a registered nurse.
• CPR/BLS IS REQUIRED UPON HIRE. AHA or ARC
• Two years’ experience in the provision of behavioral health services to children/youth
• Background Clearances (as required by law)
• Valid Driver's License and Auto Insurance
• Successful completion of post offers physical and drug screening

Benefits:

• Paid vacation
• Paid travel time and mileage are reimbursed
• Paid annual education/training
• Paid medical benefits (medical /dental / vision)
• Paid supervision
• Paid documentation time
• Experienced supervisors
• Client placement opportunities in Lawrence county and in Mercer County.

About Steward Health Care
Over a decade ago, Steward Health Care System emerged as a different kind of health care company designed to usher in a new era of wellness. One that provides our patients better, more proactive care at a sustainable cost, our providers unrivaled coordination of care, and our communities greater prosperity and stability.

As the country's largest physician-led, minority-owned, integrated health care system, our doctors can be certain that we share their interests and those of their patients. Together we are on a mission to revolutionize the way health care is delivered - creating healthier lives, thriving communities and a better world.

Based in Dallas, Steward currently operates more than 30 hospitals across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

For more information, visit steward.org

Steward Health Care is proud to be a minority, physician-owned organization. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are at the foundation of the care we provide, the community services we support and all our employment practices. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression or any other non-job-related characteristic.