Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits (insurance, 401k, paid sick and time off, etc.)
- Loan forgiveness eligibility
- Increased shift differential pay for identified shift schedules
Responsibilities
Behavior instructors work with our clients to assist them in learning social skills, improved school behaviors and coping skills that will help the youth better understand and deal with the issues that require them to be in treatment. After training, B.I.’s utilize Teaching Family Model procedures to assist the youth in accomplishing these objectives . This includes various types of behavior interventions aimed at reinforcing the child for progress and positive behaviors, while using a youth centered motivation system to encourage the clients to improve. Behavior Instructors also receive training on safe de escalation techniques, learning theory and other vital topics with 24/7 hour coaching and support from management staff.
Use only approved Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) when engaging in physical crisis intervention.
Follow all policies and procedures.
Abide by departmental attendance policy.
Complete all required documentation on time and accurately according to policy. This includes but may not be limited to: transition notes, critical incident reports, restraint/seclusion forms, observation/ rounds, fire/disaster drills (overnight BI’s) and security checklists (overnight BI’s).
Use consultation services to seek and implement feedback. Communicate effectively with supervisors and treatment team.
Maintain a professional and positive attitude.
Maintain current employee requirements (annual orientation, CPR, 1st Aid, CPI, S&R, etc.).
Complete required annual in-service hours as specified by RTC policy.
Keep all work areas neat and clean. Provide guidance to the youth resulting in them keeping their areas neat and clean (may require lifting).
Complete other related tasks as assigned by the supervisor.
Behavioral Instructors working an overnight shift will be required to maintain applicable records according to specific guidelines.
Qualifications
Must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age.
Minimum of 60 college hours required - college graduate preferred.
Ability to document accurately and professionally.
Possess the ability to understand and implement extensive training and to apply that training to the implementation of a comprehensive program of care for patients.
Ability to perform physical demands required by Crisis Prevention Intervention.
Ability as a self-motivator and the aptitude to work in a high stress fast paced position with a minimal amount of supervision.
Possess or able to obtain a valid Arkansas Driver’s License within 30 days from date of hire.
Must be eligible to be insured to drive MFH vehicles.
Experience working with “at-risk” youth or other populations with special needs preferred.
Must remain current in Crisis Prevention Intervention Training, CPR and First Aid.
Requires the strength and stamina to perform clinical duties.
Must be physically able to lift 50 pounds and hold for one minute.
Must be physically capable to receive verbal and written directions. Must be physically capable of sitting and standing for several hours at a time.
Must have good auditory, visual and olfactory ability. Ability to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.
Must be able to maintain effective audio, visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading and writing, and operating office equipment and other treatment equipment.
Must be able to use a telephone to communicate verbally and a computer to communicate through written means, to review information and enter/retrieve data, to see and read characters on a computer screen, chart or other treatment items.
Must be willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health.
Flu shot is mandatory and required for all positions (subject to qualified exemptions).
Job descriptions are not intended, nor should be construed, to be all-inclusive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.
When an employee performs two or more different jobs, for which different straight time hourly rates are established, the employee will be paid during overtime hours as a rate not less than one and one-half time the hourly rate established for the type of work he or she is performing during the overtime hours.
Level One - Full Access: Ongoing regular access to PHI of all forms while the employee is on duty and performing within the scope of his or her job as defined by the employee's job description, and Policy and Procedure. "Such access must be for cause, consistent with job responsibilities and related to patients, claims, audits, reviews and other legitimate business purposes." (e.g. Physicians, nurses and other clinicians)
Little Rock, Arkansas
Full Time