What are the responsibilities and job description for the Behavioral Health Technician position at Excelsior Wellness?
Excelsior Wellness, your homegrown healthcare system alternative
Excelsior Wellness provides access to a comprehensive continuum of education, behavioral health, primary medical, social determinant, and human service providers, holistically rooted in the eight dimensions of wellness. Our subsidiaries include Excelsior Wellness Center, Excelsior Family Medicine, Excelsior Integrated Care Center, and Excelsior Holistic Schools.
Excelsior-Integrated Care Center is currently accepting applications for a Full-Time position as a Behavioral Health Technician. The Behavior Tech is directly responsible for ensuring that client supervision, behavior support and safety are being met while on shift. This position will have knowledge of the client’s individual service plans and ensure that these plans are adhered to.
How to qualify:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Must be 21 years of age
- Minimum 1 year experience working/volunteering with youth
- Must be able to pass a criminal background check
- Must have a valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record for employment. *New employees with out-of-state licenses must obtain a Washington State Driver’s License within 30 days of employment*
Primary duties:
- Fosters a positive environment, including a cooperative, unified team-based approach among staff and clients.
- Demonstrates empathy and sensitivity to the dignity of each client served, to the clients' unique service needs, including clients' beliefs and values, ethnic norms, language needs and racial identity.
- Is aware of and adheres to client’s service plans: utilizing appropriate and therapeutic intervention techniques; seeks clarification as needed.
- Ensures the physical environment is properly maintained and in accordance with regulatory requirements; submits maintenance requests as needed to ensure compliance.
- Assists in ensuring all day-to-day program functions; psycho-educational and treatment groups, outings, recreation activities, and transportation needs are being provided and met.
What We Offer:
At Excelsior Wellness we provide an excellent medical (Providence Cigna), dental (Lincoln) and vision (VSP) package
The medical plan has the following monthly premium and responsible deductible. Dental and vision premiums are covered in this.
- Employee only: $0 monthly premium/ $250 deductible.
- Employee & child(ren): $0 monthly premium/ $500 deductible.
- Employee & Spouse: $50 monthly premium/ $500 deductible.
- Employee & Family: $50 monthly premium/ $500 deductible.
On average, Excelsior Wellness employees can save $1200 to $8700 annually on premiums and an impressive $1250 to $6000 on deductible expenses compared to other businesses in our area.
But our commitment to your well-being doesn't stop there. We provide a range of additional benefits, including retirement with employer match, employer-paid life insurance, generous PTO, 11 paid holidays, free access to learning platforms, employer-paid licensing fees applicable to your role, professional development courses, and more.
At Excelsior Wellness, we believe in giving our employees the best resources to succeed both in and out of the workplace. Our employee benefits package is just one piece of that puzzle.
“Being in the insurance industry for over 30 years, I can tell you the Excelsior Wellness Employee Benefit Plan is one of the best out there. The leadership team’s thoughtful approach to crafting a plan with little to no cost for employees and their families is remarkable and very rare. Each year they look at new ways to achieve a higher goal for the benefit of their team which speaks volumes of the culture there. They truly care about the individual and strive to remove as many barriers as possible to support and achieve a better health and well-being model. We are very proud to partner with such a great organization for their benefit plan.”
Joshua Peterson, RHU
Sales Executive, Employee Health & Benefits
PayneWest Insurance, MMA Northwest Region
Visit our website at www.excelsiorwellness.org to learn more about our organization.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Salary : $1,200 - $8,700