Behavioral Health Tech III / Vocational Specialist - ...

Full-time, Days 80 hrs/2 weeks 8 am to 430 pm. One call shift per week. One Saturday approximately every 6 weeks. Are you looking for meaningful work in the community helping others? As a member of the ACT Team, you will be a member of a trans-disciplinary team that provides community-based services for adults living with serious mental illness. You will work alongside team members from psychiatry, nursing, addictions counseling, peer support and case management to provide person-centered, recovery-oriented behavioral health care. As our Employment/Vocational Specialist, you will help our clients pursue vocational goals that align with their overall recovery goals. Your role will include helping our clients develop job readiness skills. You will assist clients find vocational opportunities that match their skills, abilities and interest. As a coach and advocate, you will also be responsible for networking with employers and other vocational resources in the community. General Summary Works collaboratively to facilitate a stable and smooth operation of the program and provides therapeutic interventions in accordance with best practice guidelines, client treatment plans, and policies; performs a variety of client care, case management and administrative functions; and completes details of the discharge plan and makes modifications in order to facilitate the successful discharge of clients. Duties and Responsibilities Essential Functions: + Assists in developing and executing individual treatment plans for clients. + Provides day-to-day oversight of all therapeutic activities. + Provides individual, group, and family therapy utilizing a wide range of techniques designed to treat mental illness, emotional problems, social and interpersonal problems, and functional deficits. + Maintains an awareness of significant client history, present status, and any precautions in effect. Collaborates with other staff to provide input into treatment plans for individual clients. + Orients family members to nature of therapeutic services and the specific program. + Increases other family members understanding of client needs and progress. + Promotes positive family relations, especially effective parental strategies. + Exhibits clinically appropriate relational (e.g., accurate empathy, active listening) skills. + Manages behavioral crises including 1:1 observation, redirection, physical restraint and team crisis interventions. + Writes behavioral management plans for acute patients in cooperation with treatment team recommendations. + Completes assessments as needed. + Assists with medication administration and recording as directed. + Communicates relevant client progress and participating in weekly treatment team planning. + Maintains on-going professional relationships with personnel from schools, public agencies, and mental health and drug and alcohol treatment facilities. + Addresses and resolving client funding matters. + Conducts inter-agency meetings as necessary. + Collaborates in appropriate treatment and discharge plans with client, guardians, and community agencies. + Provides transportation in a WellSpan Philhaven vehicle to and from the program for clients that meet requirements and are in need of transportation. Common Expectations: + Demonstrates leadership through collaboration with other team members, maintaining positive solution-focused communication, taking initiative, leading by example, demonstrating open and consistent communication, understanding of diagnosis and clinical interventions, and investing in the development of growth of staff and the program. + Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span of the assigned client population. + Assesses and interprets client age specific data and provides appropriate, age specific treatment. + Establishes and maintains positive therapeutic relationships with clients. + Demonstrates commitment to clients, visitors and other staff by complying with all applicable safety regulations, identifying opportunities to standardize processes and

Created: 2026-02-12