# Behavioral Health Specialist

**Company**: Intermountain Health
**Location**: Logan
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: $19.50 - $26.48 per hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Behavioral Health Specialist (BHS) provides direct therapeutic contact to patients through specific groups and individual support.

Responsibilities:

- Leads or co-leads educational and didactic groups.

- Ensures a positive and safe environment by role-modelling prosocial attitudes and managing negative influences.

- Collaborates with the treatment team on patient care needs and safety interventions.

- Takes initiative to improve the work environment and guides others in problem-solving.

- Maintains high standards of professionalism and sets a positive example for patients and caregivers.

- Completes timely and accurate documentation of groups and patient care interventions.

- May provide direct observation of acutely unsafe patients and act as a 1:1.

Requirements:

- Basic Life Support (BLS) for healthcare providers.

- Demonstrated relevant work experience in a behavioral health or similar setting.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, sociology, or family studies.

- 6 months relevant work experience in a behavioral health or similar setting.

Physical Requirements:

- Ongoing need to see and read information, labels, and assess patient needs.

- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require verbal communication and hearing.

- Manual dexterity to manipulate complex equipment and computer use.

- Expected to lift and transfer patients, bend to retrieve supplies and equipment, and participate in physical management of high-risk patient behaviors.

Benefits:

- Generous benefits package covering programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.

Salary: $19.50 - $26.48 per hour (actual hourly rate dependent upon experience).

## Skills

### Required
- Patient Safety
- Communication
- Leadership Behaviors
- Problem Solving
- Coaching
- Skill Development
- Empathy and Emotional Intelligence

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