Behavioral Health Technician - Inpatient Behavioral Health Adolescents Unit; YBH

Description

We are pleased to announce that we are looking for a Behavioral Health Technician to join our new Inpatient Psychiatry Units at UNC Health Youth Behavioral Health (YBH), in Butner, North Carolina.

• Hours:
  
  Full Time; 36 hrs/wk; three/12 hour shifts
• Entity: UNC Medical Center
• Location:
  
  Butner, NC

We are pleased to announce that we are looking for a Behavioral Health Technician to join our new Inpatient Psychiatry Units at UNC Health Youth Behavioral Health (YBH), in Butner, North Carolina.

• Shift: Day/Night Rotating, including weekends
• Hours:
  
  Full Time; 36 hrs/wk; three/12 hour shifts
• Entity: UNC Medical Center
• Location:
  
  Butner, NC

We are seeking a Behavioral Health Technician (BHT), preferably with strong clinical experience in developmental disabilities and adolescent mental health to work on a multidisciplinary team. The BHT will primarily be working on 4

YBH, a 10-bed unit comprised of pediatric patients with developmental disabilities in need of crisis stabilization. On this unit, we will be providing multidisciplinary treatment focused on addressing psychiatric, behavioral, medical, and psychosocial needs.

Youth Behavioral Health Hospital (YBH) is a 54-bed, 24-hour, locked psychiatric facility located in Butner, North Carolina. YBH philosophy is grounded in a milieu-based, trauma-informed and therapeutic setting. This facility aims to serve patients with a complex history, including aggression and psychosis. Safety is a key component of the care provided as well as introduction of positive coping skills, healthy living and positive leisure activities.

Therapy services will work among a large interdisciplinary team including Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, and Nursing Services. There will be four units dedicated to serving children and adolescent with mental health diagnoses, dual diagnoses, substance misuse and complex behaviors, including those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The staff will be cross-trained on all of these units as one team.

Please see the link below with information about the incentive program for the Assistive Personnel at The UNC Hospitals Youth Behavioral Health:

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This is a 36 hours per week position; working 12 hour rotating shifts (7am-7:30pm and 7pm-7:30am) with weekend and holiday rotation (Current Need is day shift). This position qualifies for an extensive benefit package including PTO hours, which are accrued based on the number of worked hours. This position requires the ability to attend a weeklong hospital orientation in Chapel Hill, offered every two weeks.

Orientation

Schedule:

Monday and Tuesday
- In person from 8am to 4:30pm in Chapel Hill;
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
- Virtual

Under close supervision, responsible for providing a safe, supportive and therapeutic environment for psychiatric patients. Provides direct patient care and may conduct therapeutic group sessions under the direction and supervision of the RN. Provides input to the RN to help develop the plan of care and assists in carrying out the plan of care for assigned patients. Assists with the admission of new patients and orients new patients and families to the unit.

• Aids patients in reality orientation, participates in behavior modification plans/therapy, provides informal support therapy to patients/families, provides verbal de-escalation of potentially aggressive patients, aids in the physical management of aggressive/out-of-control patients, facilitates age appropriate play for children, and monitors the therapeutic milieu activities on assigned unit to ensure that emotional and…