Behavioral Health Specialist II
Core
Provide care and safety to children and adolescents in a psychiatric inpatient setting as part of an interdisciplinary treatment team.
Role type
Behavioral Health Specialist II (clinical staff)
Builds
Therapeutic milieu and safe care environment for pediatric psychiatric patients
Domain
Healthcare / Psychiatry / Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Crisis management, de-escalation techniques, physical patient management, trauma-informed care, therapeutic rapport building, safe body positioning, lifting up to 50 lbs, patient escorting
Preferred skills
Baccalaureate Degree in Human Services, direct childcare experience with similar populations
Technologies
None
Responsibilities
Maintain the therapeutic milieu, implement and observe the program, document patient behaviors, organize therapeutic unit activities, provide guidance to less-senior staff, report peer concerns and behavior changes to Charge RN
Seniority
Junior to Mid-level, hands-on IC