Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Salary: 17-25hrs

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides individual Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) services in the community.
• Assists clients in developing goals for treatment within the first 30 days of service.
• Assists clients in restoring, rehabilitating, and developing social and interpersonal skills.
• Identify, enhance, and establish support networks, community awareness, coping strategies, and improve functioning in the individual's social environments (home, work, school).
• Help restore, rehabilitate, and support the development of daily living skills.
• Help improve each client's self-management of the negative effects of psychiatric or emotional symptoms.
• Assists clients in identifying, effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors (triggers) that lead to functional impairments.
• Help implement Crisis Management Plan on an ongoing basis.
• Participate in collaborative meetings with Rehabilitation Services of Louisiana's staff, other agencies or community and natural supports as needed.
• Provide Crisis Intervention services to recipients as needed according to agency policies, procedures, and service definitions.
• Communicate client's status on a regular basis, including, but not limited to changes in mood or functioning, medical issues and all crisis and health and safety issues.
• Be knowledgeable of and adept at producing effective, clinical documentation of every contact with recipient.
• Turning in notes on time according to policy. Document all no shows and communicate all difficulties contacting clients with appropriate office staff.
• Be able, or willing to learn, to use computer interface to complete documentation for billing or other purposes as needed.
• Attend all office trainings as well as regular clinical supervision sessions with Clinical Manager and/or Case Manager.
• Document services provided regularly, concisely, and completely in accordance with clinical standards by office deadline.
• Return phone calls promptly
• Follow all safety rules

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Has a Bachelor's degree in the field of counseling, psychology, sociology or social work
• Maintain CPR, First Aid, and CPI certification.
• Valid driver's license and access to a vehicle that is legally insured to be used for off-site clinical services consultation or case management.

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