Behavioral Health Technician - Full Time (Days) Job at Shift Day, Highlands Ranch, CO

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  • Shift Day
  • Highlands Ranch, CO

Job Description

Responsibilities

Highlands Behavioral Health System is an 86 bed, acute care psychiatric hospital located in Littleton, CO. Highlands features individual units for adolescents, adults, and seniors, and offers inpatient acute care, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient programs. If you have a passion for Mental Health Care, Please explore employment options with us!

The Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) manages the immediate milieu of patients, facilitates group therapy, aids with activities of daily living, and assists in the maintenance of a safe and clean environment, under the direction and supervision of the Charge Nurse. Other duties include but are not limited to:

  • Consistently provides supervision for assigned patients.
  • Facilitate psycho-educational groups.
  • Clearly documents observations of patient behavior.
  • Performs basic housekeeping tasks required to maintain patient living areas.
  • Ensures safety of patient at all times.
  • Ensures Patients Rights and Confidentiality are maintained.
  • Escorts patients to events away from the facility such as recreational and other activities, Court for conservatory or other hearings, Emergency Room or clinician office as necessitated by their physical condition.
  • Promotes a positive working environment by demonstrating respect and tolerance for age, gender, race and choice of lifestyle.
  • Demonstrates required attendance and reliability.
  • Assumes responsibility for professional development and ongoing education; discuss personal goals for continued development with supervisor and/or DON.
  • Promotes, by education and example, a therapeutic environment.
  • Maintains a professional appearance and attitude at all times.
  • Demonstrates required attendance and reliability.
  • Promotes safety by attending mandatory in services and complies with all safety measures initiated by the facility.

Total Rewards for our Behavioral Health Technicians (BHT) include :

  • Challenging and rewarding work environment
  • Career development opportunities within UHS and its Subsidiaries
  • Competitive Compensation
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan
  • Pet insurance
  • 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
  • Generous Paid Time Off
  • Free Basic Life Insurance
  • Tuition and Educational Reimbursement
  • More information is available on our Benefits Guest Website:

Shift Hours: 12 hour shifts (7am - 7:30pm); every other weekend required. 

Shift Differential Pay: Up to $4.00/hour 

*Advancement Opportunities - BHT Career Ladder Program: A new BHT must be employed for a 6-month period and will then be introduced to the BHT Career Ladder Program. The BHT can achieve advancement in title and compensation by following the BHT Career Ladder process.

If you need assistance or would like to reach someone in the Human Resources department at Highlands please email:

[email protected].

Screening of applications begins immediately and continues until the position is filled.

For full consideration, please apply directly to our website: Highlands Behavioral Health System (uhsinc.com)

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalent required;
  • Bachelors degree in human services field preferred. 
  • Two+ (2+) years of education focused on nursing, psychology, social service, medicine or related field or completion of EMT, CNA, Medical Assistant, Security Training program or equivalent preferred. 
  • At least one year relevant experience preferred.
  • Must maintain a valid driver's license in the applicable state. 

About Universal Health Services

One of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services, Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) has built an impressive record of achievement and performance. During the year, UHS was again recognized as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies by Fortune; and listed in Forbes ranking of America’s Largest Public Companies. Operating acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities, outpatient facilities and ambulatory care access points, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services located all over the U.S. States, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom.

EEO Statement

All UHS subsidiaries are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates. UHS subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and as such, openly support and fully commit to recruitment, selection, placement, promotion and compensation of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), genetic information, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

We believe that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success.

Avoid and Report Recruitment Scams

At UHS and all our subsidiaries, our Human Resources departments and recruiters are here to help prospective candidates by matching skill set and experience with the best possible career path at UHS

and our subsidiaries. During the recruitment process, no recruiter or employee will request financial or personal information (e.g., Social Security Number, credit card or bank information, etc.) from you via email. Our recruiters will not email you from a public webmail client like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc.

If you suspect a fraudulent job posting or job-related email mentioning UHS or its subsidiaries, we encourage you to report such concerns to appropriate law enforcement. We encourage you to refer to legitimate UHS and UHS subsidiary career websites to verify job opportunities and not rely on unsolicited calls from recruiters.

Job Tags

Full time, Local area, Immediate start, Shift work, Weekend work,

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