CFTSS Provider - PSR - Full time

Vanderheyden, Inc.; City of Troy (NY); On-site; USD 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanderheyden, Inc. is seeking a Psychosocial Rehabilitation Services (PSR) provider to deliver care to children and youth under 21 who are Medicaid eligible and meet medical necessity. Services are delivered in the community where the youth resides, attends school, or receives services.

The role emphasizes goal-directed supports, skill development in daily living, social/interpersonal abilities, and community integration, with collaboration with families and caregivers.

Qualifications

• Must be able to work a 40-hour work week.
• Must be able to lift 25 pounds.
• Must be able to stand and run for moderate periods.
• 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.
• 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 independence and community integration in employment, housing, education, and daily life.
• Provide Social and Interpersonal Skills: build relationships, establish support networks, and support community integration.
• Provide Daily Living Skills: help with self-management of symptoms and daily routines, including medications and health resources.
• Provide Community Integration: reestablish social skills and community participation across home, work, and school settings.
• Provide services to develop and implement social, interpersonal, self-care and independent living skills.
• Engage the child/youth and family/caregiver to apply treatment methods from the youth's treatment plan.
• Involve the family/caregiver in supporting the youth's behavioral health needs when applicable.
• Deliver services in community locations where the child/youth lives, learns, works, and socializes.
• Understands diverse views and cultures when planning treatment.
• Progress notes completed timely per regulatory requirements.
• Participate in staff meetings and department planning.
• Perform on-call duties as assigned.
• Provide strength-based service planning.

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

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 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 socializes.
• Understands different views, experiences, orientations, and cultural differences and considers them when planning for treatment.
• Progress notes are completed in a timely manner in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Participate in staff meetings and engage in department planning and goal attainment.
• Perform on-call duties as assigned.
• Provide strength-based service planning.

Abilities And Working Conditions

• Must be able to work a 40-hour work week.
• 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.

Compensation

$50,000 annually

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.

Vanderheyden, as an Equal Opportunity Employer, does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices on the basis of gender, race or ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, military or marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, prior arrest or conviction record or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.