Behavioral Health Technician Supervisor

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
BHT Supervisors are responsible for providing supervision to the residential Behavioral Health Technicians (BHTs), ensuring that a therapeutic and recovery-oriented milieu is maintained. The BHT Supervisor provides supervision, coaching, and role specific training to BHTs, consistent with the Accanto clinical philosophy and programming models, as well as to general standards of professional behavior. The BHT Supervisor provides staff performance feedback, including annual performance evaluations, and supports ongoing skill development.
Schedule

• 1.0 FTE (40 hours/week)
• Tues-Saturday 7am-3pm or 8am-4pm
• 4 weekend shifts a month. Working opposite of BHT Manager to provide more site coverage.

How BHT Supervisor’s Empower Recovery

• Monitors and ensures the quality of services delivered by the BHT including but not limited to groups, meal support, and milieu management

• Provides supervision, training, and support to new and existing staff and encourages employee engagement, accountability, and ongoing development

• Participates in treatment team, mini team, morning huddle and other meetings as assigned
• Participates in provision of meal support to clients during meals and meal outings, leads milieu activities, transports clients and supervises patient outings, and provides skills coaching when appropriate

• Creates or oversees creation of BHT schedules, manages PTO and other requests, ensuring appropriate coverage is maintained
• Provides BHT backup coverage as needed

Qualifications

• Qualified BA or BS degree in psychology, social work or related health field required or relevant experience
• Must have a valid driver’s license and be authorized to drive.

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.
Educational Opportunities
As a national leader in eating disorder treatment, we are committed to encouraging career growth and providing our staff with robust clinical education. That’s why we partner with the University of Minnesota Medical School and have a team dedicated to providing ongoing education with in-house continuing education credit opportunities through webinars and in-person events.
Are you in your first internship? Are you within hours of your licensure? We have on-the-job training to help you reach your career goals. New master’s degree therapists can accumulate hours by leading groups to earn full licensure.