Community Support Specialist CPST

Job Details

Description

HeartShare St. Vincent’s Services (HSVS) empowers youth and families to overcome the challenges of homelessness, family crises, addiction, mental illness and poverty.

Founded in 1869 as St. Vincent’s Services in Downtown Brooklyn, we began as a home for poor and friendless boys. In 2014, HSVS was formed through an affiliation with Heart Share Human Services of New York.

Through the affiliation, HSVS developed into a multi-program nonprofit agency with four divisions : Foster Care & Preventive Programs, Integrated Health Services, Housing & Residential Services and Youth & Community Programs.

Across our agency, staff members serve our clients with compassion, respect and in collaboration with our outside partners.

Our commitment to supporting vulnerable young people and their families in their quest to thrive and reach their fullest potential, ties together our rich array of services.

HSVS understands that to best support our clients, our staff must have also be provided with the resources they need to do their jobs, while ensuring self-care.

As a result, we prioritize staff well-being, and provide opportunities for reflection, team building, and professional development.

While we have a fast-paced work environment, we also strive to approach our staff as whole people to support their long-time commitment to the work.

HeartShare is looking for a Community Psychiatric Support and Treatment (CPST) in our Foster Boarding Homes :

A Community Psychiatric Supports and Treatment will assist the youth with the objective of incorporating therapy goals into daily life with focus on Self Care, Coping Skills and Managing Emotions.

A CPST will coach and support youth and provide resources extending therapy for behavioral health while providing ways of helping people with mental illnesses or substance use disorders.

Providing counseling and more specialized psychotherapies seek to change behaviors, thoughts, emotions, and how people see and understand situations.

This person will provide services within a variety of permissible locations including but not limited to : Community Locations, where the youth or individuals lives, works, learns or socializes.

The worker will provide services to help individuals with behavioral health diagnosis to achieve stability and functional improvement in the following areas : daily living, finances, housing, education, employment, personal recovery and / or resilience, family and interpersonal relationships and community integration.

Responsibilities :

• The worker will provide mobile treatment and rehabilitation services to individuals who have difficulty engaging in site- based programs who can benefit from off-site rehabilitation or who have not been previously engaged in services, including those who had only partially benefited from traditional treatment or might benefit from more active involvement of their family of choice in their treatment.
• Other job related duties.

Qualifications

Qualifications :

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree with a minimum of 2 years experience in children's mental health, addiction, and / or foster care / child welfare / juvenile justice.
• Have a valid driver's license and dependable transportation, strongly preferred
• Be able to complete Mandated Reporting self-directed on line training
• Have experience working with children (preference given to those with experience working with children with special needs)

Benefits :

• Rewarding Work in a team environment;
• Paid vacation, sick, personal days and holidays;
• 403(B) retirement plan with employer contribution;
• Health, dental, vision and life insurance;
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP);
• Flexible spending account (Dependent Care, Medical, Parking, and Transit);
• Employee Appreciation Programs and Events;
• Tuition Assistance Program;
• Professional Development opportunities;
• Gympass Discount
• Verizon Wireless Discount;
• BJs Membership discount;
• Discounts on Broadway tickets, movie tickets, theme parks, sporting events, gift certificates & more.
30+ days ago