Behavioral Health Specialist
About The Position
Our vision is a world of peaceful relationships with food, weight, and body image, where everyone with an eating disorder can experience recovery. We believe that exceptional, individualized care leads to lasting recovery from eating disorders. That’s why our teams are comprised of compassionate, dedicated professionals from a variety of backgrounds who collaborate to provide the very best evidence-based care for our clients at all levels of care. The Behavioral Health Specialist supports the milieu by facilitating therapeutic skills and activity groups, providing therapeutic meal support at mealtimes and snacks, assisting clients in acquiring skills to manage their eating disorder, maintaining a recovery-oriented environment, and providing general support and assistance.
Requirements
- A minimum of 1 years of direct patient care experience in a mental/behavioral health setting is required, regardless of degree.
- An active AAC, Agency Affiliated Counselor license is required at the time of hire, or an application must be pending/submitted by the start date.
- Employees at Residential or Inpatient sites must have a valid driver’s license and be authorized to drive.
- Employees at Residential or Inpatient sites are required to have a current Basic Life Support certification within 30 days of hire.
- Employees at Residential or Inpatient sites are required to have a current First Aid certification within 30 days of hire.
- Employees at Residential site in Washington are required to have a Washington State Department of Health Food Handler permit within 30 days of hire.
Nice To Haves
- A bachelor’s degree in a mental, behavioral, counseling, or behavioral sciences health-related field is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Facilitates therapy groups including skills groups (including CBT and DBT), self-monitoring groups, and experiential activity groups which may include art activities, music, journaling, mindfulness, relaxation, and movement.
- Participates in therapeutic supported meals and snacks.
- Provides milieu support.
- Contributes to the creation and maintenance of a recovery-oriented therapeutic environment.
- Participates in client therapeutic outings.
- May meet with residents to provide support and provide in-the-moment skills coaching.
- Supports individualized treatment plans as developed by therapist and treatment team.
- Participates in treatment team, mini team, therapy team, and/or case consultation meetings.
- Participates in scheduled supervision meetings and seeks supervision when needed.
- Ability to engage, coach, monitor, and support residents as needed.
- Completes clinical documentation in compliance with company policies and regulatory standards.
- Always maintains the confidentiality of proprietary information, which includes but is not limited to, trade secrets, sensitive company information, and any company information not made available to the public.
- Always maintains the confidentiality of former and current clients’ protected health information, as directed by state and federal law, and Emily Program and Veritas Collaborative policy. Additionally, maintain confidentiality in any position with access to employee personal information.
- Completes all assigned mandatory trainings.
- Performs additional duties as assigned.
Benefits
- HSA and PPO insurance with HSA or FSA options (Blue Cross Blue Shield)
- Dental insurance (Delta Dental)
- Vision insurance (EyeMed)
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Company-paid life insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Company 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Seven paid holidays
- One floating holiday
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
