Children's Community Services CPST Specialist

About Us:

Liberty Resources is a dynamic and growing human services agency and a great place to work! Working for Liberty Resources means you’ll have access to great career opportunities, benefits and a fun atmosphere.

Our employees have passion around our values of service, excellence, and responsibility. We pride ourselves on high quality, integrated, community-based services that meet the evolving needs of our communities.

We’re committed to building a diverse workforce that values contributions of all team 

members and work to recognize cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and how they apply to provision of positive health outcomes.

Liberty Resources is currently seeking per diem Community Psychiatric Supports & Treatment Specialists.

Position Summary

The Community Psychiatric Supports & Treatment Services (CPST) Specialist provides therapeutic interventions and functional supports to children and families who are eligible for the services. 

Reasons to choose working as a Preventive Caseworker

• Flexibility and autonomy in the workday – Independence in creating a non-traditional work day that meets the needs of families and youth
• Collaborate with other service providers, both within Liberty Resources and with external providers.
• Home and community based meetings with families which allow for the opportunity to observe, offer recommendations, and practice new strategies with youth in their natural environment.
• Supervisory support as needed. Group Supervision and individual supervision scheduled monthly

Benefits

• A collaborative and supportive team atmosphere
• Access to quality clinical supervision
• Opportunities to enhance clinical growth and advancement
• Individualized and self-led development planning
• Access to ongoing live training opportunities and a library of continued training resources
• Pay Rate: $41.56 per billable hour

Essential Functions

1. Provide intensive counseling interventions designed to assist the individual to gain skills and restore functioning.
2. Provide crisis avoidance counseling to prevent crisis and/or reduce the intensity and duration of crisis episodes.
3. Provide follow-up counseling after a crisis episode.
4. Provide rehabilitative psychoeducation.
5. Assist youth and family with strengths-based service planning.
6. Provide rehabilitative supports to minimize the effects of behavioral health symptoms.
7. Completes all required documentation, in timelines in accordance with program standards.

Qualifications

Practitioners with a master’s degree in social work, counseling, psychology or a related human services field may provide all aspects of CPST, including counseling.  Other aspects of CPST, except for counseling, may otherwise be performed by individuals with at least a bachelor’s degree and appropriate experience as specified by DOH regulations.

Must possess a valid driver’s license and have access to reliable transportation.

Liberty Resources is committed to creating a diverse inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Liberty Resources offers equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, parental status, housing status, source of income or military status, in accordance with applicable federal, state and local EEO laws.

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