Bilingual Licensed Professional Counselor (Hybrid) - Outpatient Adult

Geisinger•Wilkes-Barre, PA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

This is a full-time, hybrid position for a Bilingual Licensed Professional Counselor in Outpatient Adult services. The role involves assessing patient needs, developing treatment plans, and providing various forms of psychotherapy. The counselor will participate in program planning, evaluate patient needs, and provide case management. They will act as a primary or co-therapist in group therapy and primary therapist in individual, family, and couple therapies. The position requires obtaining pertinent data, upholding agency policies and ethical standards, and collaborating with outpatient and inpatient teams for triage, evaluation, and crisis intervention. The work is typically performed in a clinical environment.

Requirements

Active Pennsylvania Professional Counselor Licensure (LPC)
Ability to successfully pass language component testing
Master's Degree-Social Sciences (Required)

Nice To Haves

Bilingual

Responsibilities

Assesses patient needs and abilities and develops treatment plans to facilitate improved patient functioning/symptom resolution.
Provides individual, family, couple and group psychotherapy as deemed clinically appropriate.
Participates with program planning with the psychiatry team and other applicable team members.
Evaluates the ongoing biopsychosocial needs of patients, identifying needs and problems and determining a treatment plan.
Provides psychotherapies and case management to assigned patients as well as input regarding the care of program patients.
Engages as a primary therapist or co-therapist in group therapy to psychiatric patients and as the primary therapist in individual, family, and couple therapies.
Obtains pertinent data in accordance with program and regulatory standards.
Upholds agency policies and standards as well as ethical standards of appropriate discipline.
Collaborates with outpatient and inpatient teams to provide triage evaluation and crisis intervention.