CFTSS Provider - PSR - Per Diem

Vanderheyden Hall•Troy, NY

5d•$20 - $30

About The Position

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services (PRS) Services Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) services are designed to restore, rehabilitate, and support a child’s/youth’s developmentally appropriate functioning as necessary for the integration of the child/youth as an active and productive member of their family and community with the goal of achieving minimal on-going professional intervention. Must be at least 18 years old. Position Summary: Provides Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) services to children and youth under the age of 21 who are Medicaid eligible and meet medical necessity. All Children Family Treatment Support Services (CFTSS) services can be delivered in the community where the child/youth lives, attends school, and/or engages in services. PSR services are goal-directed supports and solution-focused interventions intended to achieve identified goals or objectives determined by the child/youth, family caregiver or other collateral supports. PSR is a comprehensive service and includes but is not limited to: Personal and Community Competence, Social and Interpersonal Skills, Daily Living Skills, and Community Integration.

Requirements

Must be at least 18 years old.
High school diploma or equivalent
Must be able to lift 25 pounds.
Must be able to stand and run for moderate periods of time.
Willingness to respond to the needs of a culturally diverse population.

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 Personal and Community Competence: Promote personal independence, autonomy and mutual supports by developing and strengthening the individual's community living skills and support community integration in the domains of employment, housing, education in both personal and community life.
Provide Social and Interpersonal Skills: Increasing community tenure and avoiding more restrictive treatment settings, building and enhancing personal relationships, establishing support networks, increasing community awareness, developing coping strategies and effective functioning in the individual's social environment including home, work, and school location, learning to manage stress, unexpected daily events, and disruptions, behavioral health, and physical health symptoms with confidence.
Provide Daily Living Skills: Improving self-management of the negative effects of psychiatric, emotional, physical health, developmental, or substance use symptoms that interferes with tasks of daily living; support the individual with the development and implementation of daily routines necessary to remain in the home, school, work, and community; personal autonomy learning self-care, developing and pursuing personal interests, developing daily life skills specific to manage medications and treatment consistent with the directions of their providers, learning about community resources and how to use them, learning constructive and comfortable interactions with health care professionals, learning relapse prevention strategies, reestablishing good health routines.
Provide Community Integration: Reestablish social skills so that the person can remain in a natural community location and re-achieve developmentally appropriate functioning including using collaboration, partnerships and mutual supports to strengthen the child's community integration in areas of personal interests as well as other domains of community life including home, work and school.
Provide services with the goal of developing and implementing 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 by the 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 need when applicable.
Deliver services within a variety of permissible settings including but not limited to community locations where the child/youth lives, works, attends school, engages in services, and/or socializes.
Understands different views, experience, orientation and cultural differences and considers them when planning for treatment.
Progress notes are completed within a timely manner in accordance with regulatory requirements.
Participate in staff meetings- perform on-call duties as assigned.
Engage in department planning and goal attainment.
Provide strength-based service planning.