Behavioral Health Counselor MS Licensed

IU Health • Indianapolis, IN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Behavioral Health Counselor provides individual, group, and family counseling and engages patients in the treatment milieu, education, and daily programming. The role conducts psychosocial and mental health assessments, performs utilization review and complex discharge planning, and collaborates with the care team to help ensure safe, timely services and provide patients and families with needed resources and education.

The Counselor assesses psychosocial risk factors, counsels patients and families about the emotional, social, and financial impacts of illness and disability, and mobilizes family and community resources. The role is the point person for abuse, neglect, and domestic violence cases and serves as IU Health’s liaison with state and county child and adult protective teams. It also provides intervention related to guardianship, foster care, adoption, and mental health level II placements, using crisis intervention and de-escalation to maintain a safe, therapeutic environment.

Requirements

• Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in a mental health field such as Social Work, Counseling, Psychology, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of relevant experience.
• Current Indiana licensure as an LCSW, LMHC, LMFT, LCAC, or HSPP.
• Relevant health care, mental health, or community-based experience.
• Knowledge of disease processes and human behavior to provide psychosocial assessments, therapeutic counseling, and crisis intervention to patients, families, and staff.
• Knowledge and application of evidence-based practices, including CBT, MI, and DBT.
• Knowledge of state and county adult and child protective legal mandates.
• Understanding of growth and development across the lifespan.
• Proficiency in crisis intervention and de-escalation principles, practices, and techniques.
• Ability to provide a safe and therapeutic environment, including instruction in daily activities and programming.
• Basic proficiency in electronic medical records and MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with community partners, medical teams, law enforcement, APS/CPS, schools, probation, and other agencies.

Nice To Haves

• Certification in crisis intervention may be required.
• BLS certification may be required.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate patient involvement in the treatment milieu, education, and daily programming.
• Provide individual, group, and family counseling.
• Perform functions related to utilization review and discharge planning.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary care team to support safe, timely services and ensure patients and families have necessary resources and education.
• Interpret and communicate complex patient and family needs, modeling caring practices for other caregivers.
• Assess psychosocial risk factors, including prior functioning, support systems, reaction to illness, and coping ability.
• Counsel patients and families regarding the emotional, social, and financial impacts of illness and disability.
• Access and mobilize family and community resources to meet identified needs.
• Provide mental health assessments upon physician referral.
• Deliver therapeutic intervention to facilitate complex discharge planning.
• Serve as the point person for child, adult/elderly, and institutional abuse or neglect cases, as well as domestic violence cases.
• Act as liaison between IU Health and state and county child and adult protective teams.
• Provide intervention in temporary or permanent guardianship, foster care, adoption, and mental health level II placements.
• Apply crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques to maintain a safe and therapeutic environment.

Benefits

• Access to learning and development opportunities, including advanced clinical training, leadership development, promotion opportunities, and cross-training development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level