CFTSS Provider PSR

Vanderheyden, Inc.; City of Troy (NY); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderheyden, Inc. is seeking a dedicated professional to provide Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) services to children and youth under 21 who are Medicaid eligible.

The role focuses on promoting independence, social skills, daily living skills, and community integration within the child's home, school, and community settings. You will work within CFTSS guidelines, participate in intake and planning, and support families and caregivers in implementing treatment plans, while adhering to

Responsibilities

• Comply with all requirements of CFTSS.
• Comply with all requirements of 291 licensure.
• Comply with applicable laws, rules, and regulations to include CFTSS guidelines.
• Participate in the intake and planning process and assessment as requested.
• Promote personal independence and community living skills to support community integration in employment, housing, education, and daily life.
• Enhance social and interpersonal skills to improve functioning in home, work, and school environments.
• Support daily living skills and self-management of health needs and treatment routines.
• Reestablish social skills to enable the child/youth to participate in community activities across home, work, and school.
• Engage the child/youth and family/caregiver in applying treatment methods as described by the youth's treatment plan.

Job description

Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services (PRS) ServicesPsychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) services are designed to restore, rehabilitate, and support a childs/youths developmentally appropriate functioning as necessary for the integration of the child/youth as an active and productive member of their family and community to achieve minimal ongoing professional intervention. 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.

Primary Duties and Essential Functions:

• Comply with all requirements of CFTSS.
• Comply with all requirements of 291 licensure.
• Comply 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 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 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