Licensed Professional Counselor

About the position

Provides mental health counseling and support services to children and their families, which facilitates the use of individual, public and private resources so that optimal functioning can occur for both the patient and the family. These core services include assessment of psychosocial functioning and capacities, counseling for care planning and decision-making and community resource planning. Mental health counselors collaborate with many disciplines, programs, departments and organizations in the accomplishment of these duties.

Responsibilities

• Provides skilled psychosocial assessment and collaborates with care team in order to provide quality comprehensive treatment to patients and families.
• Conducts clinical assessments of patients and/or their families.
• Utilizes appropriate psychotherapeutic treatment modalities to achieve patient/ family goals.
• Collaborates with team members in planning ongoing care and discharge planning for patient and arranges these services in timely manner.
• Completes documentation in a timely manner that is accurate, legible, clear and organized according to department, hospital and legal standards.
• Provides leadership in identifying barriers to effective service delivery or problems in work assignments.
• Actively contributes to or initiates quality improvement projects that improve service delivery.
• Provides in-service education for program staff and, when appropriate, serves as a field instructor or preceptor for students.
• Recognizes professional strengths and areas for growth and is accountable for development and enhancement of professional practice skills.
• Provides individual counseling or appropriately refers children.
• Provides supportive counseling to families who are experiencing distress related to their child's unusual adjustment or emotional or behavioral difficulties.
• Provides group therapy for each treatment milieu weekly and completes all necessary documentation.
• Oversees and implements the entire referral and intake process.
• Manages all incoming calls for program referrals.
• Completes initial referral screening assessment.
• Coordinates with registration for scheduling to assure adequate program admissions.
• Provides bi-monthly patient waiting list for admission team review and processing.
• Collaborates with community providers regarding referral process.
• Manages all aspects of program patient wait list.
• Coordinates and collaborates with community providers to assure adequate referrals.
• Provides ongoing information, referral and support to families.
• Coordinates and facilitates effective parenting and psycho-educational groups for parents.
• Provides individual and family counseling for children emotional or behavioral difficulties.
• Provides clinical leadership and supervision during crisis situations.
• Works collaboratively with community agencies to provide resources for patients and families.
• Manages and compiles ongoing clinical outcome data for patients and families.
• Provides consultative services to external agencies, as requested.
• Assists in needs assessment for services for children.
• Assists in development of systems and services for children and families.

Requirements

• Master's Degree Required
• Experience working with transgender children, youth and their families Required