Counselor Intern Licensed Professional of Healing Arts

Metrocare Services•Dallas, TX

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About The Position

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The mission of Metrocare Services is to serve our neighbors with developmental or mental health challenges by helping them find lives that are meaningful and satisfying. We are an agency committed to quality gender-responsive, trauma-informed care to individuals experiencing serious mental illness, development disabilities, and co-occurring disorders. Metrocare programs focus on the issues that matter most in the lives of the children, families and adults we serve. The LPHA-intern is primarily responsible for working with individuals and families in a trauma informed manner which includes tasks of monitoring services and providing skills, psychosocial rehabilitation and therapeutic services. The LPHA-intern uses a basic knowledge of diagnostic characteristics, symptomology of primary mental illness and knowledge of medications, side effects and benefits to provide services in a person-centered, supportive, community-based environment. The LPHA-Intern is required to have supervision in accordance with state board requirements.

Requirements

Masters degree in Psychology, Social Work, or related field.
Basic math skills required. Ability to work with reports and numbers. Ability to calculate moderately complex figures and amounts to accurately report activities and budgets.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one or two-step instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
Use computer, printer, and software programs necessary to the position (i.e., Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint). Ability to utilize Internet for resources.
Current State of Texas Driver License or if you live in another state, must be currently licensed in that state. If licensed in another state, must obtain Texas Driver License within three (3) months of employment. Liability insurance required if employee will operate personal vehicle on Center property or for Center business. Must be insurable by Centers liability carrier if employee operates a Center vehicle or drives personal car on Center business. Must have an acceptable driving record.
Must have a temporary license issued by the Texas Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors or the Texas Board of Social Work Examiners. Must be in current supervision as mandated by the Texas Board of Examiners of Professional Counselors or the Texas Board of Social Work Examiners.

Responsibilities

Provides individual and small group training in living skills such as social skills, budgeting, mobility training, grocery shopping, menu planning, cooking, coping skills, personal hygiene, personal organization, home maintenance, etc.
Provides therapeutic counseling services in accordance with clinical algorithms and billing mandates.
Assists in completing intake assessments and diagnostic formulations as needed.
Coordinates services within the Agency and with other community providers.
Assists with the involvement and education of the individuals family at a level acceptable to the individual.
Assists with monitoring and continued assessment of assigned individuals. These activities may require home visits.
Responds to crisis or potential crisis situations and ensures the appropriate level of care through the coordination of services or the provision of community support services.
Facilitates skills training and therapeutic groups.
Assists individuals in planning and implementing social/leisure activities as appropriate, including taking individuals into the community for outings and social/leisure skills development or maintenance.
Documents services in the automated clinical record keeping system with 24 hours after services have occurred.
Provide overall service coordination, referral, linkage, and advocacy to individuals with varying needs.
Perform duties in concert with other members of an interdisciplinary treatment team.
Formulates individual service plan based on assessment findings on all new admissions.
Develop measurable objectives and goals agreed upon by the individual.
Assists in obtaining and modifying goals as needed.
Documents attempts to involve individual, service providers, and caregivers unless opposed by the individual in service plan process.
Participates in interdisciplinary team staffing.
Presents psychosocial assessment findings.
Encourages individual to attend staffing.
Updates team on progress or lack of progress in reaching agreed upon goals.
Provide relevant information that might affect treatment.
Follows up with assigned individuals who miss a scheduled clinic appointment. Documents attempts to contact individual.
Reports repeated unsuccessful efforts to contact the treatment team.
Follows up within 24 hours on assigned individuals who access emergency services. Reports status-disposition to treatment team.
Provides crisis intervention.
Makes home visits, initiates mental illness warrants, works with police and other public servants as a needed to address crisis if needed.
Facilitates inpatient admission upon request of the treatment team. Provides continuity of services throughout inpatient stay.
Participates actively in discharge planning.
Meets with the individual within 5 days of discharge into the community.
Provides individual, family, and group rehabilitation sessions.
Evaluates progress of counseling session, solicits feedback from individual(s), and consults with colleagues and team leaders when dealing with unfamiliar/uncomfortable issues.
Co-facilitates family education workshops.
Identifies and assists individuals in obtaining entitlements by providing referrals, advocacy and negotiation, as needed.
Provide a minimum of four hours per week of direct clinical practice
Engage in competency development using specialized clinical knowledge and advanced skills to assess, diagnose, and treat mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, conditions, and addictions.
Engage in and provide treatment methods across the following client types: Individuals Marital Couple Family Group psychotherapy
Performs other duties as assigned.