Job Location Together House - Burlington, NC 27215
Facility based; the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Specialist is in constant face-to-face contact with persons served primarily in a day program setting. The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Specialist works as a member of a team. The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Specialist specializes in psychiatric rehabilitation and serves as the primary contact for all persons’ vocational and rehabilitation assessments and plans. The primary duties of the Psychiatric Rehabilitation professional are to provide mental health, substance abuse, vocational, rehabilitative, case coordination, family counseling, and follow-along services to adult persistent and severely mentally ill persons who are currently referred to the program by the Core Service Agency. The goals of the program are to assist the persons served to improve their emotional, mental and functional status; to reduce the necessity for hospitalization and incarceration; to assist the persons served improve their ability to live safely, follow treatment protocols, and be a productive member of a community environment; to facilitate rehabilitation from severe psychiatric or addictive conditions as much as possible; and to assist with increasing their capacity for independent living. The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Specialist consistently, customarily and regularly exercises independent judgment and discretionary power in the performance of the duties of the position. The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Specialist works with minimal supervision.
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:
Bachelor’s prepared psychiatric rehabilitation specialist. Three (3) years’ experience providing individual care in a related field, one (1) year supervisory experience andexperience serving persons with severe and persistent mental illness/ substance abuse is preferred.
Psychotherapeutic Services began over twenty years ago as a private/public partnership providing a limited array of community support services to behaviorally challenged persons in Delaware. As the corporate group expanded the array of service types and populations, it also became more geographically dispersed. This evolved into a highly effective management system in which local program manager responsibilities encompass all aspects of clinical service delivery in their arena, while corporate personnel manage finance, accounting, billing, human resources, contracting, risk management, compliance, supervision and quality management. This approach of highly centralized administrative services with equally de-centralized clinical program management is responsive to customers whose program services and structures have local needs, rules and regulations yet provides consistent, appropriate and reliable core functions for programs, staff, customers, and consumer through the central corporate family.
Psychotherapeutic Services currently has over 300 competent, innovative, and dedicated personnel in 43 behavioral health programs in 5 (five)East Coast states. We provide a wide array of social health services including: residential, supported housing, day program, case management, and other community-based services. We serve severely psychiatrically challenged, dually diagnosed, juvenile justice system, developmentally disabled, geriatric, and any other special needs persons or populations that can benefit from a social psychology approach. All of our services are based on the concept of providing the right service to the right individual at the right time.
