Behavioral Interventionist - UI Health, Psychiatry Research

Behavioral Interventionist - UI Health, Psychiatry Research

Hiring Department
:
Psych Research Unit

Location
:
Chicago, IL USA

Requisition : 1041851

FTE
: 1

Work Schedule
:
Monday - Friday, 7:00AM - 3:00PM w/ rotating weekends

Shift
:
Days

# of Positions
: 2

Posting Close Date
:
September 22, 2026

Salary
:
The previously determined pay range for this position is $25.26 - 39.08. Pay is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience, while also considering internal equity.

This position requires Illinois residency within 180 days of the hire date.

The University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health) provides comprehensive care, education, and research to the people of Illinois and beyond. A part of the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), UI Health comprises a clinical enterprise that includes a Joint Commission-accredited tertiary care hospital and outpatient clinics, and the Mile Square Health Center network of federally qualified health centers.

It also includes the seven UIC health science colleges: the College of Applied Health Sciences; the College of Dentistry; the School of Public Health; the Jane Addams College of Social Work; and the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, and Nursing, including regional campuses in Peoria, Quad Cities, Rockford, Springfield, and Urbana. UI Health is dedicated to the pursuit of health equity.

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This position is intended to be eligible for benefits. This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.

The Adolescent Psychiatry Inpatient Unit is seeking a full time Behavioral Interventionist. This position will work under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse (RN). The Behavioral Interventionist delivers patient care utilizing the Relationship-Based Care model as a framework. The Behavioral Interventionist also provides care and takes initiative to improve patient outcomes by supporting Shared Leadership, Evidence Based Practice and Magnet's Five Models of Care in clinical practice.

Through therapeutic relationships with patients, families, self and colleagues, the Behavioral Interventionist functions as an interdisciplinary team member who provides patient care and fulfills unit and organizational goals.

• Provides care for patients who have a mental illness, emotional conditions, and/or developmental disabilities;
• Systematically observes, reports, and documents subjectively and objectively the covert and overt baseline data regarding patients' psychological and behavioral states such as effect (flat, bright tearful), thought content (logical, illogical), and behavior (withdrawn, agitated);
• Develops and maintains therapeutic alliances with patients and their families; facilitates, leads, and/or participates in scheduled individual or group therapeutic patient activities and/or patient groups, coordinates activities with professional staff members/treatment;
• Plans therapeutic outings, off-unit tests, and procedures; assists patients with the activities of daily living, accompanies patients to off-unit tests/procedures/outings when necessary;
• Evaluates the value of activities as they apply to the improved mental/emotional state of the patient;
• Indirect cooperation with a Registered Nurse, develops, implements, and evaluates a course of action for each patient (such as behavior modification);
• Performs routine measurements of the state of the patient's physical health (such as measuring weight);
• Implements portions of the nursing care program as assigned by the Registered Nurse, such as monitoring…