Psychosocial Rehabilitation Specialist

Tentative Schedule: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm

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:

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.                                                                                                                                                                                         

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.

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.
• Support youth in the identification and pursuit of personal interests through resources and connections.  
• Focus on the developmental stage of the youth and work with them towards achieving age appropriate developmental tasks.
• Help the youth to identify current strengths and strategies for acquiring desired ones.
• Demonstrate knowledge of childhood psychiatric disorders.
• Demonstrate cultural competency, family driven, youth guided, strength based and trauma informed care.
• Closely collaborate with the youth’s CPST and/or OLP worker.
• Complete progress notes for each visit and phone call as it relates to treatment plan goals.
• Follow client’s treatment plan goals.
• Conduct individual home/community visits.

Qualifications:

• 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); with a minimum of two years’ experience in children’s mental health, addiction and/or foster care or in a related human services field.

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About WellLife Network:

ABOUT US: Since 1980, WellLife Network, has been meeting the growing challenges of individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities and mental illness. Our multidisciplinary approach and centralized referral process help to ensure that each person we serve receives the appropriate range of services and level of care, with an individual treatment plan, coordinated by highly competent and supportive case management professionals. In its early years, WellLife Network operated and maintained community residential facilities for people with developmental disabilities and mental illness, and provided programs of care, service, habilitation, rehabilitation, and social and recreational activities, in a home-like environment. Partnerships Make It Happen For almost four decades, WellLife Network has changed, evolved, and expanded, while remaining true to its mission of meeting the diverse needs of New York communities, businesses, and society and assisting those we serve to achieve greater personal and economic independence. WellLife Network has a long and valued tradition of working in partnership with the government, the business community, private philanthropy, and our colleagues in the nonprofit sector to offer proactive responses to society’s social and economic challenges. Since its founding, the WellLife Network culture has been marked by program growth and organizational development. A Network of Services - A Culture of Caring and Best Practices Today, with an annual operating budget of $100 million, a workforce of 1,800 staff, interns, and volunteers, and an affiliate subsidiary company, WellLife Network delivers critical services in the areas of behavioral health, intellectual/developmental disabilities, housing, co-occurring substance abuse behaviors, family support, vocational training, and care management. These services meet the pressing needs of more than 25,000 individuals and families annually, some 2,000 New Yorkers every single day. A culture of caring, best practices models, a spirit of innovation, and a commitment to measuring results and producing high returns on investment drive our work. A key element to our successful growth is our focus on technology, financial viability, and quality assurance – critical infrastructure supports that enable WellLife Network to deliver services with cost-efficiency, effectiveness, transparency, and accountability in a manner that mirrors the standards of high-performing business enterprises.

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