Mental Health Counselor

Valor Healthcare, Inc. • Fort Bragg, NC

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About The Position

The Mental Health Counselor assists with managing and treating client behavioral health activities to support the well-being of SOF personnel. Mental Health Technicians are not licensed independent providers and work under the authority of a provider’s license.

Under the supervision of credentialed and licensed behavioral health professionals, the role supports care and treatment for psychiatric, drug, and alcohol clients, and provides behavioral health interventions and counseling. Depending on location and assignment, contract personnel may also perform intake interviews, psychological testing support, psychophysiological assessments, database and statistical work, correspondence, and presentation preparation.

Valor Healthcare is a veteran- and physician-led provider of healthcare services for people who serve or have served in the military and those who work in government service. The company emphasizes respectful, high-quality care and superior clinical outcomes, supported by leaders and colleagues with military, clinical, and business backgrounds.

Requirements

• Associate degree or commensurate training, such as military mental health technician training, for a psychiatric technician or mental health program assistant.
• The education requirement may be met through military or comparable training; military-trained applicants must have a mental health technician or specialist specialty.
• Training to intervene and, when required, restrain violent, potentially violent, or suicidal clients verbally or physically. This training may be completed after hire, before assignment to duties that may require intervention or restraint.
• At least three years of experience as a mental health technician.

Responsibilities

• Conduct client intakes under the supervision of a credentialed provider.
• Assist with care and treatment of psychiatric, drug, and alcohol clients, and counsel clients with personal, behavioral, or psychological problems.
• Provide behavioral health interventions, from mitigation to treatment, under the supervision of a licensed psychiatrist, social worker, psychiatric nurse, or psychologist.
• Observe clients for behavior patterns and report observations to licensed behavioral health staff.
• Lead prescribed individual or group therapy sessions as part of specific therapeutic procedures under the guidance of a licensed mental health professional.
• Depending on location and assignment, conduct intake interviews under a licensed mental health professional’s supervision.
• Depending on location and assignment, administer psychological tests, compile data, and prepare psychological testing reports under a licensed psychologist’s supervision.
• Depending on location and assignment, administer psychophysiological tests and assessments under a licensed medical or mental health professional’s supervision.
• Maintain a computerized database listing units within the headquarters organization and service members assigned to each unit or directorate, and compile monthly training statistics.
• Prepare daily correspondence, including training and meeting agendas, purchase orders, and clinical appointments.
• Collect and maintain monthly statistical data for the assigned workplace.
• Prepare and maintain attendance rosters and statistical data for active-duty personnel who attended Social Work or Behavioral Health services.
• Gather data for presentations on process-improvement initiatives, longitudinal statistical tracking, hospitalizations, and discharges.
• Manipulate data and present it using off-the-shelf software applications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree