Overview:
Pay Range: $23 - $25 per hour (DOE)
Full Time Onsite Position
Location: San Martin Avenue
We are looking for a skilled and empathetic Behavioral Health Associate that wants to make a difference and be part of an amazing and growing team located in San Martin, CA, located just outside of San Jose, in the historic Santa Clara Valley, one of California's oldest wine growing regions.
Join us at Embark at our Short-term Residential Treatment Program in San Martin, where residential counselors offer guidance and support to adolescents and their families.
Serving teen girls and boys (gender fluid) ages 12 17, experiencing and struggling with school refusal, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, suicidal ideation and other mental health issues. Pre-teens and teens reside at our Residential Treatment Center in our comfortable family-style residence, where community and interpersonal relationships are fostered and encouraged.
Responsibilities:
- Walking students through their day-to-day activities
- Ensuring alignment with their treatment plan that our therapists create for them
- Relaying any pertinent information over to the treatment team
- Consistent and thorough documentation and reporting
- Crisis prevention and management
- Maintaining a safe environment for clients
- Participate in staff bonding and house bonding activities
- Daily light housekeeping; sweeping, cleaning up/putting things away, dishes, etc.
- Enforcing a positive environment and being a role model
Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Bachelor's Degree in psychology, social work or related field preferred, but not required.
- 21+ years of age or older
- Able to pass pre-employment drug screen
- Able to pass criminal investigation background check
- Current driver's license
- Ability to effectively communicate and build healthy relationships.
- Ability to set and teach positive values
- Ability to perform CPR and First-Aid.
- Ability to safely hold or restrain an upset or combative student
- Skill in de-escalating agitated students.
- Preferred - One year of experience in a residential setting using relational, experiential, and systemic modalities.
- Seeking EMT candidate to use your skills in a different way to support adolescents in a mental health treatment program, preferred but not required.
Benefits:
- Access to professional growth using our leading-edge strategies and trainings with our exceptional leaders
- Opportunity to foster relationships with adolescents and their families, create joy in their lives, and heal generations.
- Join a team of nationally recognized industry leaders who provide you with a framework of training, support, and long-term advancement opportunities.
- Paid holidays, plus PTO accrual schedule
- Medical insurance with a generous company contribution towards a high deductible plan
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Voluntary life and AD&D insurance
- Long-term disability
- 401K with company matching
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible Work Environment
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Embark is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Embark is committed to enriching the therapeutic and healing experience it offers through the diversity of its employees and community. Embark seeks to recruit and support a broadly diverse staff who will contribute to the organization's excellence, diversity of viewpoints and experiences, and relevance in a global society.
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