Psychosocial Rehabilitation Representative (PSR)

Real Comfort Living LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support organization in Austin, Texas, seeks individuals passionate about helping others in recovery. This role focuses on developing rehabilitative skills, supporting personal goal setting, and enhancing social and coping skills necessary for recovery. Ideal candidates will assist clients in managing crises, accessing necessary services, and achieving personal development. A collaborative environment is emphasized to promote client self-management and emotional support.

Qualifications

• Experience in rehabilitative skill development.
• Skills in crisis prevention and management.
• Ability to assist participants in personal goal setting.
• Help participants access necessary services and supports.

Responsibilities

• Provide skills support for personal goal articulation.
• Assist in developing crisis prevention skills.
• Support skills for recovery-based goal setting.
• Support medication self-monitoring and symptom tracking.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Crisis management

Self-management support

Wellness understanding

Job description

About the Job

PSR services consist of rehabilitative skill building, personal development of environmental and recovery supports considered essential in improving the functioning of the participant, learning skills to promote the individual’s self‑access to necessary services, and creating environments that promote recovery and support the emotional and functional improvement of the participant.

The service activities of PSR include:

• Providing skills support in the participant’s self‑articulation of personal goals and objectives.
• Assisting the participant in the development of skills to self‑manage or prevent crisis situations.
• Individualized interventions in living, learning, working, and other social environments, shall have as objectives: Identifying, with the participant, strengths that may aid in achieving recovery, as well as barriers that impede the development of skills necessary for functioning in work, with peers, and with family and friends.
• Supporting skills development to build natural supports including support and assistance with defining what wellness means to the participant to assist in recovery‑based goal setting and attainment.
• Assisting in the development of interpersonal, community coping, and functional skills that may include adaptation to home, adaptation to work, adaptation to healthy social environments, and learning and practicing skills such as personal financial management, medication self‑monitoring, and symptom self‑monitoring.
• Assisting in the acquisition of skills for the participant to self‑recognize emotional triggers and to self‑manage behaviors related to the behavioral health issue.
• Assisting with personal development, work performance, and functioning in social and family environments through teaching skills and strategies to reduce the effect of behavioral health symptoms.
• Assisting in enhancing social and coping skills that reduce life stresses resulting from the participant’s mental illness and/or addiction.
• Assisting the participant in gaining access to necessary rehabilitative, medical, social, and other services and supports.
• Assisting the participant and other supporting natural resources with illness understanding and self‑management, including medication self‑monitoring.
• Identifying, with the participant and named natural supporters, indicators related to substance‑related disorder relapse and the development of skills and strategies to prevent relapse.