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Behavioral Health Tech/Care Coordinator Adolescent Behavioral Health

Davita Inc. • San Rafael, CA, United States • $200k - $250k / year • 1m ago

Category

Direct Support Professional: Care Coordinator. Behavioral Health Tech. Mental Health Tech.

Job Locations

US-CA-San Rafael

Type

Per Diem-PRN

About Us

Newport Healthcare is a nationwide behavioral healthcare organization dedicated to transforming young lives through evidence-based care. To that end, we have assembled the best teen and young adult mental health treatment staff in the country, and we want you to join us. While our experts guide our clients to sustainable healing, our job is to support our valued staff members, and we do that through offering industry-competitive salaries, career growth and skills expansion, student loan repayment and tuition reimbursement, and a company commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, among other advantages. Be part of a team that's dedicated to providing compassionate care based in authentic connection, mutual respect, and unconditional love-and experience the rewards of making a difference in the lives of young people and their families each and every day.

Empowering Lives. Restoring Families.

Responsibilities

The primary purpose of this role is to provide supervision for our clients and to ensure their safety while building a rapport with them. This includes providing assistance to each client in working with a group and in handling individual problems; responsibility for setting of limits for behavior; creating documentation of the client's progress; and identifying the possible need for professional services and communications of such findings to professional staff. Responsibilities include contributing to the care and upkeep of the environment of care.

Essential Duties:

Responsible for being aware of where all assigned residents are and what they are doing at all times. When assigned to a one-to-one with a client, the requirement is always to have eyes on the client during the assigned period. If observing a client leaving the premises, the expectation is to follow them until further assistance can be provided.

Ensure client safety by using verbal de-escalation methods to redirect client behaviors and prevent/respond to crisis. Use CPI techniques if client poses imminent physical danger to themselves or others.Facilitate residential daily schedule including participating in, and providing support to residents, to include but not limited to, activities such as chores, deep clean of designated space (includes tasks such as sweeping, dusting, vacuuming and cleaning), meal service, laundry service, groups, activities, and events.Facilitate client daily phone call.Complete daily shift notes for individual clients.Communicate with house/pod treatment teams about individual client concerns.Supervise self-administration of resident medications per physician orders and maintain training in medication disbursement per State of California Community Care Licensing.Supervise clients with detox orders, specifically from drug and/or alcohol use, ensuring safety and compliance.Provide transportation to residents for community outings and meetings in company vehicle in a safe and legal manner.Practice compliance with all policies, record keeping requirements, checklist assignments, assigned documentation, and any other assigned duties.Remain current and up to date on all trainings and certifications required to maintain employment with Newport Healthcare.Provide support to assigned house. House assignment may change based on operational need.

Qualifications

High school diploma or GED required
Bachelor's degree in psychology, counseling, or sociology preferred
Prior work experience in behavioral health treatment settings with adolescents a plus
Must have a valid driver's license and be eligible for insurance coverage for driving the company's vehicles.
Must become CPI and CPR certified within first 30 days

Physical Demands

The demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee must have the ability to walk, sit, stand, bend, lift and move constantly during working hours. The incumbent must be able to see and hear and have the mobility to access the house/campus which may include long distances or uneven terrain. The employee must be constantly alert for client safety.

The salary range for this position is $22.00/hr to $25.80/hr based on education and experience.

Full Time Benefits Include:

Medical/Dental/Vision

Company Paid Life Insurance

Voluntary STD/LTD

Flexible Spending Accounts

Health Savings Account (w/ Company Contribution)

401k + Match

PTO/Sick Pay

Commuter Stipend

Tuition Assistance / Student Loan Repayment

Newport Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Newport Healthcare provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Newport Healthcare is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity, including providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability. Applicants with a physical or mental disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please email accommodations@newportacademy.com for assistance.

For more information on Equal Opportunity, please click here Equal Employment Opportunity Posters

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