Behavioral Health Technician II - Adolescent Unit at Avera – Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Award Winning Health Care: Avera has been named among the nation’s 15 Top Health Systems, Forbes list of America’s 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

• Bachelor’s 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?