LTSR Behavioral Health Technician Part-Time

• LTSR
• Brookville, PA, USA
• 16.63 to 19.67 per hour Rate increases with education and experience.
• Hourly
• Part-Time

Dickinson Center, Inc. has provided a continuum of mental health, intellectual disability, and children's prevention services in Northwestern Pennsylvania since 1958. We are a progressive non-profit organization with almost 185 employees and an annual operating budget of nearly $10 million.

SUMMARY

The LTSR Behavioral Health Technician provides direct support, supervision and guidance to the residents. Directly interacts with residents for support of adult daily living skills, social skills, and behavior management. Activities may include supportive counseling, skill development, recreational interactions, crisis intervention, behavior management, time management of the daily schedule for residents, supervision of a variety of activities, advocacy, documentation of behaviors and information, and reporting of behaviors and progress toward goals.

We are seeking to hire a Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) who will provide direct support, supervision, and guidance to the residents. This position interacts directly with residents to support their adult daily living skills, social skills, and behavior management. BHT's interact with residents as a team, ensuring flow of daily activities, monitoring of behaviors, engaging in group activities, crisis intervention as needed, and monitoring of safety and wellness of the residents and facility as a whole.

Located at the DCI Restoration Center, Long-Term Structured Residence (LTSR) is a 16-bed residential facility which will provide mental health services for adult males with current forensic involvement. This will be one of 7 facilities of its type across the state of Pennsylvania, and it will serve 9 rural Northwest PA counties.

Qualifications:

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• High School diploma with 6 months of mental health training or experience. Or;
• High School diploma and minimum of 12 credit hours of college education in human services related field required. Or;
• Bachelor's degree in a human service-related field preferred.

Experience

• Experience in behavioral health preferred.
• Experience in residential, corrections, or hospital setting considered.
• Experience in psychiatric rehabilitation services, certified peer support services, substance abuse services, forensic services, and/or crisis intervention services considered.

Our Services and employment are provided in a nondiscriminatory manner, without regard to Race, Sex, Color, National Origin, Ancestry, Religious Creed, Disability and Age.

https://www.dickinsoncenter.org/