About This Role
This role involves providing psychotherapy services to Veterans, their families, and the interdisciplinary team. The counselor evaluates, identifies, and treats psychosocial concerns and psychiatric diagnoses in an outpatient behavioral health setting, including crisis response for a full spectrum of mental health disorders.
Responsibilities
- Provide outpatient behavioral health services and crisis response to Veterans with mental health disorders, including Serious Mental Illness, PTSD, Depression, Anxiety, other mental health diagnoses, and substance use disorders
- Assess and treat complicated psychosocial problems of Veterans with a high level of skill
- Independently identify high-risk patients and implement appropriate safety protocols
- Provide crisis intervention services
- Refer for inpatient psychiatric hospitalization and residential PTSD, SUDS, and other specialty programs
- Conduct thorough assessments to determine presenting problems, in-home factors impacting problems, and obstacles to recovery and/or follow-through with recommended treatments
- Provide case management with members of the outpatient interdisciplinary team to coordinate collaborative efforts for Veteran recovery needs
- Liaise with community professionals regarding needed services for Veterans and/or their families
- Refer to programming for homelessness, hospice services, nursing home care, home health services, financial resources, VA benefits, and transportation services
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship
- Master's degree in mental health counseling, or a related field, from a program accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP)
- Proficiency in basic written and spoken English
- Full, current, and unrestricted license by a state to independently practice mental health counseling, including diagnosis and treatment at the master's degree level
- Minimum of 1 year of post-master's degree mental health counseling experience in the field of health care (VA or non-VA experience) or a doctoral degree in mental health counseling (or a related field) may be substituted for the required 1 year of professional mental health counseling experience
Important Details
- Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, or as agreed upon, with the possibility of extended hours and weekends
- Candidates must be willing to work weekends, irregular work hours, and extended hours
- Candidates must be willing to be assigned to other related services and/or locations, if necessary
About the Company
This role is for the Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) Therapist Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC).