Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor - Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP)

Department of Veterans Affairs•Colorado Springs, CO

35d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply. This Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor serves as a therapist on a Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) team located at VA Eastern Colorado Health Care | Veterans Affairs. VA offers a Comprehensive Total Rewards package: Total-Rewards-of-an-Allied-Health-VA-Career-Brochure.pdf The duties include but are not limited to the following:

Responsibilities

Diagnose mental disorders.
Treat mental disorders through individual, family, and group psychotherapy, utilizing Evidence Based Treatments.
Perform formal and informal assessments for a wide variety of patient conditions and diagnoses, including mental illness, substance abuse and general emotional and cognitive functioning.
Ensure the assessment and care provided accommodate to the cognitive, emotional, chronological maturation, and diversity needs of the person served.
Provide a full range of therapeutic interventions with a strong emphasis on evidence-based models of care in the outpatient mental health setting.
Conduct assessments appropriate to individual patients with attention to the implications of test results for a veteran's every-day, real-world function and successful treatment/management of health problems with an emphasis on behavioral health factors associated with improved quality of life.
Provide psychoeducation to patients and family members to support healthcare adherence and relapse prevention.
Work with Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) team to support optimum clinical care.
Consult and coordinate care with community providers following HIPPA practices to support psychosocial recovery of the person served.
Support activities of the Psychology Training Program and participate in relevant educational seminars.
Participate in improvement of clinical supervision skills with emphasis on Evidence Based Practice models.
Participate in program development tasks, as assigned.
Participate in planning of measurement, gathering and analysis of outcome data to guide program evaluation and development.
Implement program design and assists in clinical management of program staff, as assigned.
Assume responsibility of timely completion of all clinical charting and documentation.
Maintain ongoing scholarly and self education activities.
Serve on committees or workgroups, as assigned.