Behavior Health Technician (BHT)
$37,440–$37,440 year
On-site · Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) provides one-to-one services to identified child/adolescent and family to reduce maladaptive behaviors in home, school, and community. Responsibilities include implementing clinical service delivery goals, reporting to supervisor, completing required training (6 supervised hours in field), maintaining documentation for degrees/licenses/certifications/clearances, providing services per program description and licensure standards, maintaining professional relationships with clients and stakeholders, participating in interagency meetings, collaborating to develop internal systems for quality, prompting replacement behaviors to build communication/social/problem-solving skills, delivering all authorized client services and timely re-authorizations, assisting with payroll/billing documentation, applying treatment/behavior plans, providing crisis intervention when needed, participating in supervision and staff meetings. Minimum requirements: Bachelor's Degree; one year of full-time mental health support experience with youth/young adults; BCAT certification; required clearances. Benefits include medical/dental/vision, tuition reimbursement, FSAs, life and disability insurance, PTO, 403(b) match, employee perks. Location: Reading, PA, with IBHS program; on-site schedule; full-time. Salary: $18.00/hour (annualized $37,440). This role is within Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems and Chimes network across PA/NJ/DE/MD with a focus on intensive behavioral health services.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- One year of full-time experience in providing mental health support services to youth, or young adults
- Certification as BCAT (Board Certified Autism Technician Certification)
- Pennsylvania Child Abuse clearance
- Criminal and fingerprint-based federal criminal history
- Verification not on Medicaid/Medicare Exclusion list
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