Clinician-LMHP/LMHP-E - ACT Grant

Horizon Behavioral Heal•Lynchburg, VA

10d•$46,349 - $82,316•Remote

About The Position

The Clinician - Licensed is part of a multidisciplinary team that provides community mental health services to individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. The Clinician - Licensed provides mobile outreach and home visits to clients, as well as crisis intervention, short-term focused therapy, and supportive counseling. The Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Clinician position is a grant-funded role dedicated to delivering intensive, community-based behavioral health services to rural clients who meet ACT admission criteria. This clinician provides comprehensive, team-based support designed to reduce psychiatric hospitalizations, promote recovery, and improve quality of life for individuals with serious mental illness. By bringing services directly into rural communities, the ACT clinician helps address systemic barriers such as transportation challenges, provider shortages, and stigma, ensuring that clients receive timely, evidence-based care where they live. This is a grant-funded position through April 2029, and may come to an end with the ending of grant funding.

Requirements

Master's Degree from a program that prepares individuals to practice counseling (60-hr Master's Program), which is offered by a college or university accredited by a regional accrediting agency. (Re: 54.1-3500 of the Code of Virginia)
No experience required.
Resident in Professional Counseling, Supervisee in Clinical Social Work, Resident in Licensed Marriage, Family Therapy, Resident in Substance Abuse Treatment, or eligibility to apply for residency.
New hires will be expected to apply for clinical supervision and residency within 30 days of hire.
Knowledge of and adherence to existing professional ethical standards.
Knowledge and ability to provide evidence-based group/individual therapy.
Knowledge of and ability to complete psychiatrically based assessments.
Ability to form and maintain effective counseling relationships with clients, monitor client movement in the therapy process, and terminate the therapeutic relationship appropriately.
Ability to effectively communicate orally, both in person and by telephone.
Ability to effectively communicate in writing and to prepare written documents.
Ability to maintain a consistent and dependable work schedule.
Ability to travel to meetings, other campuses, and counseling sites.
Willing and available to work modified schedules (weekends, holidays, etc.) as required.
Ability to drive and must possess a valid driver’s license.
May be called upon to travel to any Horizon worksite; transport clients and provide services to clients at other locations.
Regular attendance at training and Horizon meetings may require travel to various Horizon sites.

Responsibilities

Provides mobile outreach and home visits to clients.
Provides crisis intervention.
Provides short-term focused therapy.
Provides supportive counseling.
Delivers intensive, community-based behavioral health services to rural clients who meet ACT admission criteria.
Provides comprehensive, team-based support designed to reduce psychiatric hospitalizations, promote recovery, and improve quality of life for individuals with serious mental illness.
Travel to meetings, other campuses, and counseling sites.
Respond to emergencies in a timely and appropriate manner.
Participate in and successfully pass behavioral intervention training, which includes both verbal de-escalation skills and physical skills techniques to be utilized with consumers as needed.