Behavior Health Technician (BHT)
$37,440–$37,440 year
On-site · Reading, Pennsylvania, United States or Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, United States
Job Summary
Behavioral Health Technician (BHT) provides one-to-one behavioral health 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 hours (6 supervised field hours before working with clients), submitting required documentation to HR, ensuring services comply with licensure standards, maintaining professional relationships with clients and community partners, participating in interagency meetings, developing internal systems to improve quality of services, prompting safe replacement behaviors to build communication, social interaction, and problem-solving skills, delivering all authorized client services with timely re-authorizations when needed, submitting payroll/billing documentation, implementing interventions based on treatment and behavior plans, providing crisis intervention when indicated, and participating in supervision and program meetings. Minimum requirements include a Bachelor’s Degree, one year of full-time mental health support experience for youth/young adults, BCAT certification, and required Pennsylvania clearances. Total rewards include competitive pay, health benefits, tuition reimbursement, FSAs, retirement plan, PTO, and more.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- BCAT certification
- Pennsylvania Child Abuse clearance
- Criminal and fingerprint-based federal criminal history
- verification of not on Medicaid/Medicare Exclusion list
- One year of full-time experience providing mental health support services to youth/young adults
- Ability to work within a group to develop internal systems to improve and ensure quality services
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