Mental Health Professional/Coordinator

The Wellspring • Monroe, LA

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About The Position

Provides professional mental health services to Veterans and their families by delivering emergency crisis intervention, leading a team that provides screening assessments, developing individualized suicide prevention services plans, maintaining documentation, organizing support groups, and supporting client safety, healing, and overall well-being in alignment with agency standards and ethical guidelines.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in counseling or social work
• One year of supervision experience
• Flexibility to work non-traditional business hours
• Knowledge of Community Resources
• Verbal and written communications skills, including the ability to record with clarity and promptness
• Good listening skills and the ability to ask appropriate questions
• Ability to maintain poise, control and effectiveness in providing services to clients even under extreme stress and unexpected crises
• Appropriately assertive even in difficult situations
• Must demonstrate mature and objective, non-judgmental behaviors
• Ability to assess situations both within and outside the client system and determine priorities
• Ability to develop and maintain professional relationships with clients from various cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds
• Maintains positive work relationships with other staff, is cooperative and promotes teamwork
• Effectiveness in planning and arranging work responsibilities including handling deadlines and changes in priorities
• Ability to identify and use community resources
• Maintains personal appearance consistent with agency image
• Assumes responsibility for own learning
• Handles delicate situations tactfully
• Ability to work within the purpose, structure and constraints of the Agency and to make suggestions for change in a responsible manner
• Must maintain strict client confidentiality
• Commitment to professional growth

Responsibilities

• Provide direct services by Providing individual crisis intervention to Veterans and/or their families
• Organizing and/or conduction Veteran/Veteran family support groups
• Coordinating and providing educational and training opportunities for other community professionals and the public
• Leading a team that provides screening assessments to eligible Veterans
• Developing individualized suicide prevention service plans
• Maintains accurate and complete records for each client by Gathering and documenting necessary demographic and personal information
• Ensuring that all necessary paperwork is signed by clients and by staff where appropriate
• Completing session reports for each session
• Documenting all contacts with or activities on behalf of each client, including individual sessions, group sessions, cancellations and no-shows, advocacy, referrals and phone contacts
• Ensuring all staff members of the team are incompliance with above
• Develop a competent, productive, and satisfied professional staff by Supervising directly and through delegations; Hiring, transferring, promoting, demoting, disciplining, and terminating; Appraising performance; Providing educational and experiential growth opportunities;
• Assures quality services and program efficiency and effectiveness by Developing and evaluating program inputs, activities, outputs, outcomes and indicators; Enforcing rules, regulations, and legal requirements; and Reviewing, monitoring and recommending changes to current and projected program and agency policies, procedures, practices, standards and operations
• Maintains client confidence and agency integrity by Keeping information confidential
• Adhering to all ethical guidelines set forth in the Code of Conduct published by the Louisiana Licensed Professional Counselors Board of Examiners or the State Board of Social Work Examiners
• Assures quality services and program efficiency and effectiveness by Complying with appropriate program standards and guidelines
• Completing required agency and funder paperwork in a timely and accurate manner
• Maintains effective agency operations by Complying with agency procedures, rules and regulations
• Maintains safety of clients and staff at all times by Assessing lethality of individual client situations
• Developing and reviewing safety plans with clients
• Coordinating and cooperating with law enforcement or other authorities as needed
• Contributes to team efforts by Communicating effectively
• Exhibiting a willingness to help other staff
• Demonstrating flexibility and accommodating change
• Encouraging and supporting others
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Maintains professional competency by Participating regularly in clinical supervision and/or consultation
• Participating in continued education and personal growth experiences
• Reviewing professional publications
• Performs other duties as related to the position and as assigned.
• Work non-traditional hours and/or alternate schedule during special projects or to meet agency deadlines.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level