Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Behavioral Health Technician

• Salary Range: $24.04 - $28.85/hour, based on relevant years of experience
• Location: Fort Collins, Colorado at our Longview campus
• Status: Full-time 40 hours per week
• Hours: both days and overnights

Employees working at locations operating 24/7 earn a differential.  Shift differentials are also available for evenings, nights ($7 per hour), weekends and holidays. 

Role Overview:

As a Behavioral Health Technician (Case Manager), within our Crisis Residential Unit, the person in this role provides services to individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis. Duties include milieu management, brief counseling interventions, psycho-education and activities groups, and treatment planning within a Crisis Stabilization Unit setting. The position interacts extensively with a large interdisciplinary team including RNs, Psychiatrists, Nurse Practitioners, Mental Health Therapists, and Psychologists.

Essential Duties:

• Provide behavioral health intervention and milieu management on the unit to maintain patient and staff safety.
• Help clients complete intake paperwork and get oriented to rules/activities of the unit.
• Complete regular client documentation in the Electronic Health Record System.
• Resolve conflicts between clients and de-escalate clients as needed.
• Help complete client discharge planning and schedule follow-up appointments for clients.
• Create and maintain a trauma-informed and therapeutic environment for every client.
• Facilitate therapeutic activity groups on the units.
• Respond and intervene in emergency codes called.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in health/human services required
• At least one year of experience working in behavioral health setting or programs required

Highly Desired:

• Certified Addiction Specialist (CAS) in Colorado preferred
• Trauma Informed Care experience
• Bilingual/bi-cultural preferred

Longview Campus is the new Acute Care Behavioral Health facility which serves Larimer County residents in need of urgent help with mental health and/or substance use disorders. SummitStone has the privilege of partnering closely with Larimer County on this venture. For more information click HERE. 

The Mission:

At SummitStone Health Partners, we strive to foster trust, empower recovery, and inspire hope to strengthen and enrich our Northern Colorado community.

We need your help to make this vision a reality.

We are building a team who believes in providing crucial services at crucial times, helping the people in our community at their most vulnerable — particularly those who are often overlooked and underserved.

Please visit summitstone.org for more information about our organization.

Total Rewards

At SummitStone Health Partners we are proud to offer a competitive and competitive benefit package to support the wellbeing of our teams. Visit our website for more information about Total Rewards .

Reach Out

SummitStone will provide persons with disabilities reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or selection process, please let your recruiter know.

Questions? Please email us at hiring@summitstonehealth.org.

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