SWLA Center for Health Services-posted 3 months ago
Full-time • Entry Level
Lafayette, LA
251-500 employees
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

The Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) at SWLA Center for Health Services is responsible for providing, overseeing, and administering a wide range of psychosocial evaluations and assessments, diagnostic counseling therapy, crisis intervention, resourcing, and case management services. This role requires a high degree of independent decision-making and program administration. The LPC will also be responsible for recording appropriate documentation of services, including patient diagnosis and education, in the electronic health record, as well as initiating and implementing behavioral interventions. The work is performed in an office setting.

  • Highly knowledgeable with DSM diagnosis and ICD coding
  • Possess strong understanding of societies and their impact on mental health
  • Ability to solve problems, monitor and examine patients
  • Knowledgeable of community resources
  • Highly knowledgeable with applying therapeutic orientations on a case by case basis
  • Ability to maintain a good working relationship with colleagues
  • Ability to build and maintain rapport with clients and their supports
  • Highly knowledgeable in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, behavioral, and/or addictive disorders and in psychoeducational techniques aimed at the prevention of such disorders
  • Consultation to individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations
  • Research into more effective therapeutic treatment modalities
  • Cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and psychodynamic therapies
  • Knowledge of principles and practices of health care planning and management sufficient to manage, direct and coordinate the operation of a health care organization
  • Knowledge of the purposes, organization and policies of the community's health systems sufficient to interact with other health care providers
  • Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with peers, employees, policy-making bodies, third-party payers, patients, caregivers, and the public
  • Skill in organizing work, making assignments, and achieving goals and objectives
  • Knowledge of the policies and procedures of the clinic sufficient to direct its operations and to provide effective patient care
  • Ability to multi-task and work effectively in a high-stress and fast-moving environment
  • Ability to be culturally sensitive and effective when working with ethnically diverse populations
  • Ability to assume responsibility and exercise authority over assigned work functions
  • Ability to establish and maintain quality control standards
  • Ability to organize and integrate organizational priorities and deadlines
  • Ability to work harmoniously with professional and non-professional personnel
  • Ability to seek out new methods and principles and be willing to incorporate them into existing practices
  • Participate in problem-solving and implementation of plans for departmental improvement
  • Demonstrate a desire to learn more and actively pursues that desire for professional development
  • Master's or Doctoral degree in the Mental Health Counseling Field
  • Possess and maintain Licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor in Louisiana which must be unrestricted, current, complete, and active
  • Maintain CME/CEU requirements necessary for license renewal in Louisiana
  • Minimum of one year experience required
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Supplemental Insurance
  • Retirement Plan
  • 401k Matching
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays
  • Employee Assistance Program
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