Behavioral Health Associate - OP

1 day ago
Kingsport, TennesseeFull TimeBehavioral Health
✓ No Call✓ No Weekends

Job Description

About the Role

Join Summit BHC as a Behavioral Health Associate – Outpatient in United States.

Key Responsibilities

  • ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: · Ensures the wellbeing of patients and provides a safe, positive, supportive, and structured environment, under direction of charge nurse or supervisor.
  • Maintains a constant awareness and supervision of patients.
  • · Provides transfer or transportation for client or coordinates transportation with appropriate staff member as required.
  • · Conducts safety checks, ensuring that supervision is conducted at intervals in accordance with individualized supervision guidelines.

Requirements

  • · High school graduate or equivalent.
  • · Six months or more experience working with the specific population of the facility preferred.
  • · Knowledge of common psychiatric disorders and/or dual diagnosis and various treatment modalities of the population served preferred.
  • LICENSES/DESIGNATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS: · CPR and de-escalation and restraint certification required (training available upon hire and offered by facility).

Work Schedule

  • Full-Time position.
  • No explicit call, weekend, or night shift information provided.

Apply to join Summit BHC as a Behavioral Health Associate – Outpatient.

Key Skills

Patient MonitoringCrisis ResponseDe-escalation TechniquesVital SignsPatient InteractionGroup FacilitationRecord KeepingSafety ChecksRole ModelingData CollectionRestraint ApplicationIncident ReportingSocial Skills TrainingCoping Skills TrainingAnger Management
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Position Insights

WeekdayDoc rates Behavioral Health Associate - OP at Summit BHC a 4.0/10 for work-life balance — below average.

This position offers no on-call requirements, no weekend shifts.

Key skills for this role include Patient Monitoring, Crisis Response, De-escalation Techniques, Vital Signs, Patient Interaction.

Benefits include Comprehensive Benefit Plan, Competitive Salary.

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About Summit BHC

Hospitals and Health Care
Franklin, Tennessee
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Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive Benefit Plan
Competitive Salary
4.0

Work-Life Balance Score

Below Average

Protective Factors (2)

No on-call (β=6.95; p<0.001 for ↓ exhaustion)

No weekends (57% ↓ work-life conflict)

Interpretation: Position shows moderate burnout protection with 2 validated protective factors.

Job Details

Employment Type

Full-time

Posted

yesterday