CFTSS Provider - CPST - Full time

Vanderheyden Hall • Glens Falls, NY

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Provides rehabilitative services to children/youth under the age of 21 who are Medicaid-eligible and meet medical necessity. All Children and Family Treatment and Support Services (CFTSS) services can be delivered in the community where the child/youth live, attend school, and/or engage in services. CPST services are goal-directed supports and solution-focused interventions intended to achieve identified goals or objectives per the child/youth, family/caregiver, or other collateral supports. CPST is a comprehensive service and includes, but is not limited to: Intensive Interventions (counseling), crisis avoidance (counseling), and Immediate Team crisis management (counseling) provided by a Master's degree CPST provider. CPST services also may include the delivery of Rehabilitative Psychoeducation, strength-based service planning, and rehabilitative supports; these services may be provided by a Bachelor's or master's level CPST provider.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or higher required to provide 3 of the 6 CPST services of: Rehabilitative Psychoeducation, strength-based service planning, and rehabilitative supports.
• Master's Degree from an accredited program, Social Work, Psychology, Rehabilitation Counseling, or related area required to provide 3 of the 6 services: Intensive Interventions(counseling), crisis avoidance (counseling), Intermediate Term crisis management (counseling).
• Valid and current NYS driver's license with a clean MVR.
• Availability to work as needed.
• Willingness to respond to the needs of a culturally diverse population.
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
• Ability to lift 25 pounds.

Nice To Haves

• Preferred Experience in providing therapy/treatment services for at-risk youth and families.

Responsibilities

• Comply with all requirements of CFTSS.
• Comply with all requirements of 291 licensure.
• Compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, to include CFTSS guidelines.
• Participate in the intake and planning process and assessment as requested.
• Provide Intensive Interventions (counseling) - individual, family, and relationship-based counseling.
• Engage the child/youth and family/caregiver in ways that support the everyday application of treatment methods as described in the treatment plan.
• Provide crisis avoidance (counseling) - assist the child/youth with effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors or triggers, identifying potential crisis, developing a crisis management plan and/or seeking other supports to restore stability and functioning.
• Assist the child and family in developing the capacity to prevent a crisis episode or reduce the severity of a crisis episode should one occur.
• Provide Intermediate Term crisis management (counseling) - assist families following a crisis episode.
• Assist in stabilizing the child/youth in the home and natural environment; assist with goal setting on issues identified from emergency room intervention and other referral sources.
• Provide rehabilitative psychoeducation - educating the child/youth and family members or other collateral sources on strategies to minimize the negative effects of the symptoms which interfere with the child/youth's daily living and/or overall well-being.
• Provide strength-based service planning - identifying strengths and needs, resources, natural supports, and developing goals and objectives to utilize personal strengths, resources, and natural supports to address functional deficits associated with their mental illness.
• Provide services to develop and implement social, interpersonal, self-care, and independent living skills.
• Engage the child/youth and family/caregiver in ways that support the everyday application of treatment methods as described in the child's/youth's treatment plan.
• Involve the family /caregiver in having an integral role in the support and treatment of the child/youth's behavioral health needs when applicable.
• Deliver services within a variety of permissible settings including but not limited to community locations where the child/youth live, work, attend school, engage in services, and/ or socializers.
• Understand different views, experiences, orientations, and cultural differences and takes them into account when planning for treatment.
• Complete progress notes are completed within a timely manner in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Participate in staff meetings.
• Perform on-call consultation duties as assigned.
• Engage in department planning and goal attainment.
• Provide strength-based service planning.

Benefits

• Vanderheyden is committed to the National Sanctuary Model - a blueprint for clinical and organizational change which, at its core, promotes safety and recovery from adversity through the active creation of a trauma-informed community. The Sanctuary Model's focus is not only on the people who seek services, but equally on the people and systems that provide those services.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level