Behavioral Health Service Provider
Compensation
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Job Description
Specific Responsiblities
- Deliver intensive interventions, including individual, family, and relationship-focused counseling, to support emotional and behavioral management, problem-solving, and the development of social, daily living, and independent living skills for increased stability and community adaptation.
- Provide crisis avoidance services by helping children/youth and families recognize and manage triggers, develop crisis plans, and access appropriate support to maintain stability.
- Offer intermediate-term crisis management through relationship-based support to families after a crisis, restoring stability in alignment with the crisis management plan.
- Conduct rehabilitative psychoeducation to educate children/youth and families on strategies to reduce the impact of symptoms, emotional disturbances, substance use, and stressors on daily functioning, recovery, relationships, and community integration.
- Facilitate strengths-based service planning to help children/youth and families identify strengths, resources, and goals to address mental health needs using natural support.
- Provide rehabilitative support aimed at restoring and reducing the impact of behavioral health symptoms or emotional disturbances on daily living.
- Deliver rehabilitation interventions and collaborative, hands-on training to build developmentally appropriate skills, support self-management of symptoms, and strengthen community integration through partnerships and mutual supports across home, work, school, and personal interests.
- Ensure services are provided individually or in groups, following trauma-informed, culturally, and linguistically competent practices, with coordination among all treatment providers.
- Maintain responsibilities such as timely documentation, participation in required meetings and training, immediate reporting of incidents, adherence to agency and regulatory standards, and upholding family choice and voice throughout all aspects of care.
- Perform all duties as assigned
- QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree and three years of applicable experience in children's mental health, addiction, and/or foster care/child welfare/juvenile justice or other related human services field, and no certification in an Evidenced Based Practice.
- Bilingual (Spanish) applicants, encouraged to apply.
- RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHERS
- Lead with a sense of shared governance, listening to all stakeholders.
- Work with a sense of social responsibility; taking initiative to create a positive work environment for all
- Communicate openly, respectfully, and intentionally.
- Illustrate emotional intelligence by acknowledging the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Possess a strong belief in people’s ability to grow and change; forge a mutually respectful partnership with people served and their families.
- Ability to set limits and maintain helping role of practitioner and to intervene appropriately.
- SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY
- All providers must practice within their scope of responsibility based on service being provided, i. e. CPST, PSR, Peer Supports.
- Must meet billing targets of 25 billable hours/100 billable units weekly.
Key Responsibilities
The provider delivers intensive counseling, crisis management, and rehabilitative interventions to support children, youth, and families in achieving stability. They also facilitate strengths-based service planning and coordinate care across various community settings to improve daily functioning.
Requirements
Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree and possess at least three years of relevant experience in human services, such as mental health, addiction, or child welfare. Proficiency in Spanish is encouraged, and the role requires meeting specific weekly billable hour targets.
Qualifications
- Education
- Bachelor degree
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Behavioral Health Career Context
In New York, the Behavioral Health weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$75k (45 salary observations; 83 listings), vs ~$77k nationally (547 salary observations; 1,781 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-02-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.
The cost-of-living index for New York is 107.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 64.6% of New York clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | not listed | Behavioral Health median $78k (middle half $69k–$95k)37 comparable listings, Oct 2026 |
| New York vs national | $75k median in New York | $77k nationally (−2%)45 state / 547 national salary observations |
| Cost of living | New York index 107.9 | US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Behavioral Health listings in New York | 39 active | 789 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026 |
| Behavioral Health pay trend | +16.4% vs prior quarter | —through Sep 2026 |
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Behavioral Health Service Provider at SCO Family of Services a 6.6 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% of all Behavioral Health healthcare professional listings evaluated on our platform.
