Behavioral Health Specialist
Listed compensation
$20-$24/hr
The week · per this posting · Monday – Friday
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Job Description
Our vision is a world of peaceful relationships with food, weight, and body image, where everyone with an eating disorder can experience recovery. We believe that exceptional, individualized care leads to lasting recovery from eating disorders. That’s why our teams are comprised of compassionate, dedicated professionals from a variety of backgrounds who collaborate to provide the very best evidence-based care for our clients at all levels of care.
Position Overview
The Behavioral Health Specialist supports the milieu by facilitating therapeutic skills and activity groups, providing therapeutic meal support at mealtimes and snacks, assisting clients in acquiring skills to manage their eating disorder, maintaining a recovery-oriented environment, and providing general support and assistance.
Schedule: Monday-Friday: 8:00am-4:30pm
- Compensation Disclosure
- Starting hourly range between $20.00-24.00
- Final Compensation offered will be within pay range based on qualifications/experience met for the position
How BHS's Empower Recovery
- Facilitates therapy groups including skills groups (including CBT and DBT), self-monitoring groups, and experiential activity groups which may include art activities, music, journaling, mindfulness, relaxation, and movement.
- Participates in therapeutic supported meals and snacks.
- Provides milieu support.
- Contributes to the creation and maintenance of a recovery-oriented therapeutic environment.
- Participates in client therapeutic outings.
- May meet with residents to provide support and provide in-the-moment skills coaching.
- Supports individualized treatment plans as developed by therapist and treatment team.
- Participates in treatment team, mini team, therapy team, and/or case consultation meetings.
- Participates in scheduled supervision meetings and seeks supervision when needed.
- Ability to engage, coach, monitor, and support residents as needed.
- Completes clinical documentation in compliance with company policies and regulatory standards.
Always maintains the confidentiality of proprietary information, which includes but is not limited to, trade secrets, sensitive company information, and any company information not made available to the public.
Always maintains the confidentiality of former and current clients’ protected health information, as directed by state and federal law, and Emily Program and Veritas Collaborative policy. Additionally, maintain confidentiality in any position with access to employee personal information.
- Completes all assigned mandatory trainings.
- Performs additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications
A bachelor’s degree in a mental, behavioral, counseling, or behavioral sciences health-related field is strongly preferred.
OR
An associate’s degree may be considered if combined with equivalent experience in the mental or behavioral health field.
Regardless of degree, a minimum of 1 years of direct patient care experience in a mental/behavioral health setting is required.
What We Offer
Employee Benefits: We understand the importance of a well-rounded benefits package. That’s why we’re dedicated to providing a range of plans to meet your needs.
For Full-time Employees, We Offer
- HSA and PPO insurance with HSA or FSA options (Blue Cross Blue Shield)
- Dental insurance (Delta Dental)
- Vision insurance (EyeMed)
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Company-paid life insurance
- 401(k) plan available two months after start date
- Company 401(k) matching for up to 50% of your contribution, up to 6% of your compensation
Paid time off is a crucial part of maintaining work and life balance. Our generous PTO plan accrues annually and begins with your first whole pay period. Eligible employees enjoy seven paid holidays and one floating holiday in addition to their regular PTO.
Key Responsibilities
The Behavioral Health Specialist facilitates therapeutic groups and provides meal support to assist clients in their recovery from eating disorders. They also maintain a safe, recovery-oriented environment and contribute to individualized treatment plans in collaboration with the clinical team.
Key Skills
Case Management & Care Coordination Career Context
The cost-of-living index for Minnesota is 98.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$46k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $46k in an average-cost state. 63.4% of Minnesota clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Case Management & Care Coordination pay on WeekdayDoc is down 5.9% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Work-life score | 3.9 / 10 · above average in case management & care coordination (healthcare admin) | ranked against 507 Case Management & Care Coordination (Healthcare Admin) listingslisting-based score, 0–10 |
| Cost-of-living adjusted pay | ~$46k in purchasing power | Minnesota index 98.6 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Case Management & Care Coordination listings in Minnesota | 8 active | 517 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 28% remote · 15% no call · 70% no weekends40 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | not stated | US healthcare professional listings (all specialties): 6% state a sign-on bonus (median $3k) · 5% offer loan repayment1,000 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| New Case Management & Care Coordination listings | 164 in the last 30 days | 104 the 30 days before (+58%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Case Management & Care Coordination pay trend | −5.9% vs prior quarter | —through Oct 2026 |
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