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Behavior Technician Job at Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

Colorado Coalition for the Homeless Denver, CO 80205

$21.90 - $30.66 an hour

**$3,000 Sign-On Bonus (prorated based on weekly schedule)**

The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless seeks an Overnight Behavioral Health Technician, Safety & Security to provide de-escalation and environmental safety support patients for the Recuperative Care patients. The BHT will support patients in our 75 -bed, 24/7 facility and will help provide a safe, supportive, therapeutic, harm-reduction, and trauma-informed environment for individuals healing from an acute medical need. The BHT will monitor floor milieu and work to be our first line of response to escalated patients. The BHT will also support an integrated plan of care for each patient and support some mental health groups and activities.

$3,000 sign-on bonus (prorated based on weekly schedule)

This position is eligible for an Overnight Shift Differential of 10% - 15% based on scheduled hours and weekends.

NOTE: In order to ensure that our consumers receive the best possible care the candidate chosen to fill this position will be required to complete our internal credentialing and privileging process prior to a start date. The credentialing and privileging timeline is dependent on the selected candidate's submission of documents necessary for clearance. Please note that a start date will be scheduled once credentialing and privileging is complete.

Essential Job Functions

  • Record all services in a timely and complete fashion in the EH
  • Manage tasks and scanning as needed to have a complete and current chart
  • Provides excellent internal customer service, engendering an atmosphere of collaboration
  • Assist with intakes, discharges, and help familiarize new patients to the program
  • Implements delegated aspects of patient treatment plans and participates in a therapeutic milieu under the direction of the behavioral health, safety, and integrated clinical teams
  • Foster substance use challenges and recovery in a harm-reduction and trauma-informed way
  • May assist residents with physical assistance partnered with the integrated care team very rarely
  • Will help plan and implement groups focused on optimal mental health including supporting topics centered on well-being, motivational interviewing, distress tolerance, coping skills, etc.
  • Handles urgent/emergent situations quickly as they arise in a trauma informed manner with careful consideration of CCH Policies, Procedures, Mission, and Philosophy of Service
  • Makes floor, building, and perimeter inspections of site to ensure a secure and safe environment and to address client needs
  • Participates in recreational, engagement, and occupational activities with patients
  • Meet required COVID-19 vaccination(s), as defined by applicable law, regulation, or guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  • Performs other duties as assigned

​​Employee must be able to perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation and without posing a direct threat to safety or health of self or others. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications Summary

  • Active certification in basic life support (CPR/BLS) required
  • Interest in harm reduction, and/or behavioral health environments, and/or supporting vulnerable populations is required
  • High school diploma or equivalent required; working on higher education preferred
  • Prior experience or certification as a Medical Assistant, Emergency Medical Technician, or Certified Nursing Assistant preferred
  • Bi-lingual English/Spanish preferred

WHERE A CANDIDATE IS PLACED IN THE COMPENSATION RANGE DEPENDS ON TOTAL RELEVENT YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

Coalition Benefits

In addition to the unique challenges and extraordinary rewards of our work, eligible Coalition employees enjoy a rich benefits package, including:

  • Health insurance coverage on the first day of employment: full-time employees contribute only 1% of their earnings for their own health coverage and no more than 4% of their earnings for coverage of eligible dependents. We’re proud to offer same- and opposite-sex domestic partner coverage;
  • Dental, vision, and flexible spending/dependent care/public transit accounts;
  • Free basic life insurance and long-term disability coverage;
  • Dollar-for-dollar retirement plan matching contributions up to 5% of earnings;
  • Extensive paid time-off, including 8 holidays, 12 days of sick leave, and three weeks of vacation for new full-time employees in their first full year.

​The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is committed to delivering services, making employment-related decisions, selecting volunteers, and selecting vendors without regard to age over 40, race, sex, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, medical condition related to pregnancy, military status, or any other applicable status protected by law.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $21.90 - $30.66 per hour

Benefits:

  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Paid time off
  • Retirement plan
  • Vision insurance

Schedule:

  • 10 hour shift
  • 8 hour shift
  • Monday to Friday
  • Night shift

Supplemental pay types:

  • Signing bonus

Application Question(s):

  • In order to protect the health of the Coalition’s staff, patients, visitors, and family members, and to reduce the potential transmission and serious health effects from the COVID‐19 virus, all employees must maintain complete and current COVID‐19 vaccination(s) as a condition of employment.

Can you meet the requirement of a complete and current COVID-19 vaccination? Y or N

Are you or any of your immediate family members currently or within the past two years a client, patient, or resident of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless? Y or N

Education:

  • High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience:

  • Behavioral health: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person




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