Location: Sioux Falls,SD, USA
**Join the team at Avera!**
**Award Winning Health Care:** Avera has been named among the nations 15 Top Health Systems, Forbes list of Americas Best-in-State Employers and Level 10 Most Wired Health Care Organization by CHIME.
**Culture:** Be part of a multidisciplinary team built on teamwork, with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.
**You Belong at Avera:** Competitive pay, front-loaded PTO and options for free health insurance, sign-on bonuses, various shifts to fit your lifestyle and opportunities for career growth.
**_Why is Behavioral Health important?_**
The Avera Behavioral Health ( Adolescent & Child Unit are designed to be a structured and age-appropriate therapeutic environment for adolescents and children to learn to understand problems, use healthy coping skills and set and complete goals.
**You will enjoy this Behavioral Health setting if you are someone that:**
+ Enjoys working with children ages 5 to 12 years old and adolescent ages 13 to 17 years old as well as their families.
+ Has a passion helping patients with conditions such as Addiction, Anxiety Disorders, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Depression or Suicidal behavior.
+ Appreciates an active, challenging care environment that requires critical thinking.
+ Values autonomous professional nursing practice.
+ Possesses motivation to help create and deliver high-quality patient care in an energizing team environment.
**Position Highlights:**
+ Adolescent program is expanding to 40 unit
+ Child unit is a 14 bed unit
+ Adolescent Residential is a 8 bed unit
+ Opportunity to meet 70+ coworkers
+ Opportunity to change lives of both Adolescent and Children
+ Self-scheduling program
**Job Summary**
Provides physical and psychological care to patients under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse. Assumes responsibility and accountability for individual actions and outcomes of patient care delivered.
**Education and/or Experience**
+ Bachelors degree in Psychology, Social Work, criminal justice, education, behavior analysis, health or social sciences, counseling, alcohol studies, liberal arts, or any other human services and/or medical field is required.
+ Two years related experience is preferred.
**Pay**
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
+ $20.50 - $31.00 per hour
What Makes Avera Special? (
The policy of Avera to provide opportunities for all qualified employees or applicants without regard to disability and to provide reasonable accommodations for all employees or applicants who may be disabled. Avera is committed to ensuring compliance in accordance with the Americans with Disability Act. For assistance, please contact HR Now at 605-###-####.
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Avera is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer: Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.