Psychosocial Rehabilitation Specialist - 100I0 - On-Call

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POSITION SUMMARY: 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. Services assist with implementing interventions on a treatment plan to compensate for, or eliminate, functional deficits and interpersonal and/or behavioral health barriers associated with a child/youth’s behavioral health needs. Actives are “hands on” and task oriented, intended to achieve the identified goals or objectives as set forth in the child/ youth’s individualized treatment plan.
PSR is intended to foster and promote the development of needed skills identified in assessment or through the ongoing treatment of a licensed practitioner. PSR services are to be recommended by a licensed practitioner and a part of a treatment plan. PSR activities are focused on addressing the rehabilitative needs of the child/youth as set part of a treatment plan and can be provided in coordination with treatment interventions by a licensed practitioner (e.g. OLP) or provider of CPST. Services are delivered in a trauma informed, culturally and linguistically competent manner.

ESSENTIAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
OPERATIONAL
1. Assist youth with 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 locations.
•  Learning to manage stress, unexpected daily events, and disruptions, behavioral health and physical health symptoms with confidence
• Support to establish and maintain friendship/supportive social networks, improve interpersonal skills such as social etiquette and anger management.

2. Assist youth with Daily Living skills:

• Improving self-management of the negative effects of psychiatric, emotional, physical health, developmental, or substance use symptoms that interfere with a person’s daily living
• Supporting the individual with the development and implementation of daily living skills and daily routines necessary to remain in the home, school, work and community.
• Building Personal autonomy skills, such as learning self-care, developing and pursuing personal interests, developing daily living skills specific to managing their own medications and treatment consistent with the directions of prescribers, learning about community resources and how to use them, learning constructive and comfortable interactions with health care professionals, learning relapse prevention strategies and re-establishing good health routines and practices.

3. Assist youth with Community Integration:

• Re-establishing 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.
• Assisting the individual with generalizing coping strategies and social and interpersonal skills in community settings
• Assisting the individual with effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors or triggers that result in functional impairments.
• Implementing learned skills (that may have been developed through a licensed practitioner providing treatment services) in social skills, health skills and assisting the individual with effectively responding triggers to functional impairment.

4. Support youth in the identification and pursuit of personal interests through resources and connections.
5. Focus on the developmental stage of the youth and work with them towards achieving age appropriate developmental tasks.
6. Help the youth to identify current strengths and strategies for acquiring desired ones.
7. Demonstrate knowledge of childhood psychiatric disorders.
8. Demonstrate cultural competency, family driven, youth guided, strength based and trauma informed care.
9. Closely collaborate with the youth’s CPST and/or OLP worker.
10. Complete progress notes for each visit and phone call as it relates to treatment plan goals.
11. Follow client’s treatment plan goals.
12. Conduct individual home/community visits.
13. Lead groups for youth who receive PSR, as scheduled and complying with 1:4 ratio.

OTHER RESPONSIBLITIES
14. Complete the Mandated Reporter Training
15. Adhere to all confidentiality laws and guidelines.
16. Track all paperwork due dates and submit by assigned deadlines.
17. Recognize and report suspected and known child abuse.
18. Report any potential youth high risk behaviors/concerns to supervisor.
19. Maintain awareness of any incident reporting guidelines.
20. Schedule client visits and monitor weekly Direct Service Units
21. End each quarter at a minimum of 65% direct service units of hours worked, as well as end with an overall Annual percentage of at least 65% DSU.
22. Participate in supervisions as scheduled.
23. Submit weekly schedule to Supervisor (any changes to schedule must be reported to Supervisor as they occur).
24. Utilize Paycom to indicate accurate hours worked.
25. Track and submit mileage.
26. Participate in Division-wide trainings, staff events and program meeting.
27. Attend workshops, conferences, OMH trainings, etc.
28. Transport youth with agency vehicle and personal vehicle, as needed.
29. Responsible for having access to a personal vehicle throughout the course of the work day.
30. Submission of auto insurance policy before expiration date.
31. Adhere to protocols of agency Safety Policy.
32. Attendance and participation at the Family Bonds Retreat Weekend.
33. Other duties as assigned

• Must be 18 years old and have a high school diploma, high school equivalency preferred, or a State Education Commencement Credential (e.g. SACC or CDOS).
• A minimum of one year experience in children’s mental health, addiction and/or foster care.
• Valid and clean New York State driver’s license and access to a vehicle.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITY SPECIFICATIONS

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is not exposed to weather conditions.