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The Neighborhood Center, Inc. Community Psychiatric Counselor in Utica, New York
COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC SUPPORTS TREATMENT COUNSELOR $24.05 hr 37.5 hrs per week 1:00pm 9:00pm shift 27 paid days off in a year 1 (vacation & holidays), plus paid sick time! 4% flat 401k contribution (after 1 year) Employer paid life insurance Medical, dental, and vision insurance
The Community Psychiatric Supports Treatment Counselor will provide professional services under the New York State Child and Family Treatment and Support Services (CFTSS) programming. CFTSS are mental health services under New York State Childrens Medicaid provided at home or in the community. Services are delivered in a trauma-informed, culturally and linguistically competent manner.
RESPONSIBILITIES: Assists child, youth and family to achieve stability and functional improvement in daily living, personal recovery, and or resilience, family and interpersonal relationships and school and community integration. Maintains youth in home or community by helping improve communication with family, friends and others for a child who may be at risk of or who has a mental health or substance use diagnosis. Assists with Crisis avoidance by restoring stability and functioning or preventing crisis episodes from occurring or reducing intensity and duration of an active crisis. Provides Intensive intervention by assisting the individual with developing and implementing social, interpersonal, self-care, daily living and independent living skills to restore stability to support functional gains and adapt to community living. Provides intermediate term crisis management-stabilizes child in the home and natural environment and assist with goal setting to focus on issues identified from mobile crisis or emergency room intervention and other referral sources. Provides Rehabilitative Psycho Education, and Rehabilitative Supports. Adheres to the Standards of Care described in the Medicaid State Plan Children and Family Treatment and Support Services Provider Manual for Childrens Behavioral Health Early and Periodic Screening and Diagnostic Treatment (EPSDT) Services and any subsequent updates. Ensures adherence to the standards of any and all program funding bodies. Ensure that accurate and timely records are kept. Refers families or individuals whose needs are not within the function of The Neighborhood Center, Inc. CFTSS to other agency programs/services or to other appropriate CFTSS services in the community. Ensures the fulfillment of training requirements of any funding and regulatory bodies. Prepares and maintains statistical records, program records and prepares reports as required. Performs other responsibilities as assigned. REQUIRMENTS: Travel to homes and within the community is required. Must have clean and valid Drivers License; access to reliable transportation. Able to work a flexible work schedule if necessary. Masters Degree in Social Work Counseling, Psychology or related Human Services field plus one (1) year of applicable experience or who have been certified in an Evidenced Based Practice (in lieu of one year of experience requirement). And/ other aspects of CPST services except for counseling may be performed by individuals with a minimum of Bachelor Degree and two (2) years of experience in childrens mental health, addiction, and/or foster care/child welfare/juvenile justice. These include, Registered Professional Nurse with one (1) year of behavioral health experience; Licensed Occupational Therapists and Licensed Creative Arts Therapists to the extent they are operating under the scope of their license. OR Bachelors Degree and certification in an Evidenced Based Practice consistent with the CPST component being delivered OR Bachelors Degree and three (3) years applicable experience in childrens mental health, addiction and/or foster care/child welfare/juvenile justice or related Human Services field and no certification in an Evidence Based Practice