**Job Description**

**The School of Nursing has an outstanding opportunity for Behavioral Health Interventionist to join their team.**

**About this Opportunity**

Reporting to **Maria Bleil,** the Mental Health Practitioner is responsible for performing a behavioral intervention as a part of a new NIH-funded randomized controlled trial (RCT). The RCT will leverage an established treatment program to target childhood obesity (vs. control) in 240 prepubertal girls who are at risk for earlier pubertal onset based on BMI percentile ≥85th and low family income, both factors linked to earlier pubertal onset. Findings will inform the value and optimal timing of such interventions, including whether implementation in the prepubertal period may be most impactful due to the combined benefits of weight loss along with a reduction in risk for earlier pubertal onset and its sequelae.

The Behavioral Health Interventionist will perform a behavioral intervention fo...