COUNSELOR LCSW or LPC -Meadville Behavioral Health

Meadville Medical Center•Meadville, PA

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

Provide individual counseling; assist with program development and implementation. This role involves providing individual and/or family therapy, formulating care plans based on assessment and diagnosis, and systematically collecting patient data. The counselor will implement and evaluate care plans, ensuring they are consistent with safe and effective patient care. Additionally, the position requires functioning as a team member for programs and classes, providing guidance, assisting with program materials and promotion, and evaluating program effectiveness and comprehension. The role also includes facilitating group sessions and serving on an interdisciplinary team for program development.

Requirements

Licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, LPC, or Licensed Psychologist in the state of PA.
Minimum of 3-5 years of counseling experience.
Skills necessary to effectively communicate with various members of the health care team, other health care facilities, community health related organizations, various external parties and regulatory agencies.
Ability to concentrate and prioritize, resolve problems, and interact with situations.
Must be able to remember, reason, understand and be emotionally stable.
Able to work as a team member.
Must be willing to use the following management accountabilities and competencies: conflict resolution, staff counseling, problem solving, disciplinary process, policy and procedures implementation, teamwork, staff scheduling, interviewing, budgeting process, cost containment skills and support of peers.
Current BLS Healthcare Provider card.

Responsibilities

Provides individual and/or family therapy.
Formulates a plan of care based on assessment, diagnosis, age and outcome identification.
Systematic and pertinent collection of data for each patient based on age.
The plan of care is consistent with safe, effective patient care and age.
Determines the urgency of psychological, social and emotional needs, and formulates a course of action to attain expected outcomes.
Implements a plan of care based on assessment, diagnosis, age and outcome identification.
Interventions are based on patient need and consideration of patient and/or significant other.
Evaluates and modifies plan of care based on patient responses and attainment of expected outcomes.
Functions as Team Member for program(s) and/or classes.
Provides guidance for other team members.
Assists organizing program materials, content, schedule.
Assists Marketing Director in efforts to promote program(s).
Evaluates all aspects of program effectively and efficiently.
Evaluates comprehension of information presented.
Functions as Facilitator for group session(s) of disease based programs and/or classes.
Serves as member of interdisciplinary team to assist with program development.
Plans and implements counseling components of programs/classes.
Communicates information to group in concise and effective manner.