CFTSS Provider - CPST

Position Summary:Provides rehabilitative services to children/youth under the age of 21 who are Medicaid-eligible and meet medical necessity. All Children and Family Treatment and Support Services (CFTSS) services can be delivered in the community where the child/youth live, attend school, and/or engage in services. CPST services are goal-directed supports and solution-focused interventions intended to achieve identified goals or objectives per the child/youth, family/caregiver, or other collateral supports.

CPST is a comprehensive service and includes, but is not limited to:
Intensive Interventions (counseling), crisis avoidance (counseling), and Immediate Team crisis management (counseling) provided by a Master's degree CPST provider. CPST services also may include the delivery of Rehabilitative Psychoeducation, strength-based service planning, and rehabilitative supports; these services may be provided by a Bachelor's or master's level CPST provider.

Primary Duties &

Essential Functions:

• Comply with all requirements of CFTSS.
• Comply with all requirements of 291 licensure.
• Compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, to include CFTSS guidelines.
• Participate in the intake and planning process and assessment as requested.
• Master level CPST:
  Provide Intensive Interventions (counseling), crisis avoidance (counseling), Intermediate Term crisis management (counseling).
• Provide intensive Interventions (counseling) - individual, family, and relationship-based counseling. Engage the child/youth and family/caregiver in ways that support the everyday application of treatment methods as described in the treatment plan.
• Provide crisis avoidance (counseling) - assist the child/youth with effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors or triggers, identifying potential crisis, developing a crisis management plan and/or seeking other supports to restore stability and functioning. Assist the child and family in developing the capacity to prevent a crisis episode or reduce the severity of a crisis episode should one occur.
• Provide Intermediate Term crisis management (counseling) - assist families following a crisis episode. Assist in stabilizing the child/youth in the home and natural environment; assist with goal setting on issues identified from emergency room intervention and other referral sources.
• Provide rehabilitative psychoeducation - educating the child/youth and family members or other collateral sources on strategies to minimize the negative effects of the symptoms which interfere with the child/youth's daily living and/or overall well-being.
• Provide strength-based service planning - identifying strengths and needs, resources, natural supports, and developing goals and objectives to utilize personal strengths, resources, and natural supports to address functional deficits associated with their mental illness.
• CPST services may also include the delivery of Rehabilitive Psychoeducation, strength-based service planning, and rehabilitive supports; these services may be provided by a Bachelor's or Master's-level CPST provider.
• Provide services to develop and implement social, interpersonal, self-care, and independent living skills.
• Engage the child/youth and family/caregiver in ways that support the everyday application of treatment methods as described in the child's/youth's treatment plan.
• Involve the family /caregiver in having an integral role in the support and treatment of the child/youth's behavioral health needs when applicable.
• Deliver services within a variety of permissible settings including but not limited to community locations where the child/youth live, work, attend school, engage in services, and/ or socialize rs.
• Understands different views, experiences, orientations, and cultural differences and takes them into account when planning for treatment.
• Complete progress notes are completed within a timely manner in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Participate in staff meetings. Perform on-call consultation duties as assigned.
• Engage in department planning and goal attainment.
• Provide strength-based service planning.

Education and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or higher required to provide 3 of the 6 CPST services of:
  Rehabilitive Psychoeducation, strength-based service planning, and rehabilitive supports
  -these services may be provided by a Bachelor's or Master's level CPST provider.
• Master's Degree from an accredited program, Social Work, Psychology, Rehabilitation Counseling, or related…