Behavioral Health Specialist

Company: The Emily Program
Location: Spokane
Posted on: May 4, 2024

Job Description:

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.

Behavioral Health Specialist - Temporary Role working through 09/30/24

The Behavioral Health Specialist supports the PHP milieu by facilitating therapeutic skills groups, self-monitoring 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

Compensation Range:

Behavioral Health Specialist: $19.26 - $28.89

Final compensation offered will be within pay range based on qualifications/experience met for position.

Schedule:

This is a PRN (Pro Re Nata) position, the schedule will be on-call for coverage needs and shifts will be centered around programming hours between 8:00am and 7:00pm Monday through Thursday and from 8:00am to 4:00pm on Fridays.

How Behavioral Health Specialists Empower Recovery:

• Facilitates therapy groups including skills groups, 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 clients to provide support and in-the-moment skills coaching
• Participates in treatment team, mini team, therapy team, supervision, and/or case consultation meetings and seeks supervision when needed
• Ability to engage, coach, monitor, and support clients as needed
• Completes clinical documentation in compliance with The Emily Program and Veritas policies and regulatory standards Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in mental health-related field.
  • AAC is required in Washington State
  • Must have valid driver's license and be authorized to drive.
  • Previous direct mental health experience preferred What We Offer: (Benefits offered with Full Time opportunities)
    • Medical - Blue Cross Blue Shield. Health benefits begin on the 1st of the month after start date Employees must work an average of 30 hours per week to be eligible
      Dental - Delta Dental, Vision
    • Health Savings Account (HSA) - Health Equity & Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
    • Commuter Benefits - Edenred Commuter Benefit Solutions (Employees located in Seattle only)
    • Eligible to enroll in company's 401(k) Retirement Plan - Principal Financial.
    • All employees, age 21 and older, are eligible to participate in the 401(k) Retirement plan the first of the month following 2 Months of Service
      Match 50% of your contribution, up to 6% of your pay.
    • Generous PTO plans: Paid Time off (PTO) is provided to all regular full time and part time regular employees up to 152 hours/19 days within the first year of employment. PTO is accrued throughout the year and can be used for vacation, personal and sick time and accrues based on compensated hours.
    • Holidays: Employees not working at a residential or inpatient facility are eligible for 7 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday Non-exempt employees working at a residential or inpatient facility will receive premium pay at a rate of double time if they are scheduled and work on one of ten designated holidays. Employees hired on or after February 20, 2022, will receive premium pay at a rate of time and-a-half if scheduled and work on one of ten designated holidays.
    • Exempt employees working at a residential or inpatient facility who are scheduled to work on a holiday may take the holiday on a different day during the same pay period. Additionally, non-exempt employees are eligible or various shift and weekend differentials. Employer Paid Benefits
      • Employee Life/AD&D Insurance
      • Short-term disability
      • Long-term disability

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