Behavioral Health Technician

Independence Health System Careers • Butler, PA

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About The Position

This role involves providing comprehensive support and therapeutic interventions to individuals and their families. The technician will work as part of an interdisciplinary team, build therapeutic relationships, and offer case management services. Key responsibilities include coordinating treatment plans, facilitating group and individual therapy, and assisting clients with daily living necessities and accessing community resources.

Requirements

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of the interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Ability to attend and share appropriate information regarding clients in the daily morning meeting.
• Ability to advocate for clients’ rights and preferences.
• Ability to build a therapeutic relationship with individuals served.
• Ability to interact professionally and appropriately with individuals, families, and other community agencies.
• Ability to provide service coordination (case management).
• Ability to coordinate and monitor the activities of the individual treatment team.
• Ability to develop, write, implement, evaluate, and revise overall treatment goals in collaboration with the client and the individualized treatment team.
• Ability to make immediate changes in treatment plans as clients’ needs change.
• Ability to educate and support clients and their families.
• Ability to provide effective one to one therapeutic interventions.
• Ability to facilitate group therapy, psychotherapy, symptom management and other appropriate therapeutic interventions.
• Ability to provide practical help and side by side support, mentoring, advocacy, coordination, problem solving, direct assistance and supervision.
• Ability to help clients obtain necessities of daily living including medical and dental healthcare, legal and advocacy services, financial supports, housing subsidies, money management training, and transportation.

Responsibilities

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of the interdisciplinary treatment team, including attending and sharing appropriate information regarding clients in the daily morning meeting.
• Advocating for clients’ rights and preferences with the team, their families, the community, etc.
• Builds a therapeutic relationship with individuals served and effectively interacts in a professional and appropriate manner with individuals, families, and other community agencies.
• Provide service coordination (case management) for an assigned group of clients including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team.
• Assume primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating and revising overall treatment goals in collaboration with the client and the individualized treatment team, ensuring immediate changes are made in the treatment plans as clients’ needs change.
• Educate and support clients and their families.
• Provides effective one to one therapeutic interventions with the individual and family, facilitates group therapy, psychotherapy, symptom management and other appropriate therapeutic interventions.
• Provide practical help and side by side support, mentoring, advocacy, coordination, problem solving, direct assistance and supervision to help clients obtain the necessities of daily living including medical and dental healthcare; legal and advocacy services; financial supports such as entitlements (SSI, SSDI); housing subsidies (HUD, Section 8, 811); money management training: and transportation.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed