Professional Counselor 1-4
About The Position
The ELMHS (Elayn Hunt Mental Health System) Social Services Department in Jackson, LA is seeking a passionate Professional Counselor. ELMHS provides mental health evaluation, treatment, habilitation, and consultation for adults, with programs including inpatient interventions, jail-based evaluations, supervised group home and residential programs, forensic evaluation, care, custody, and aftercare, and intermediate and long-term psychiatric services. The Professional Counselor will deliver client-centered services, including assessment, case management, crisis intervention, and community resource coordination, working with diverse populations facing mental health challenges, trauma, or crises.
Requirements
- Possession of a current Louisiana license to practice as a Provisional Licensed Professional Counselor (PLPC) or a Provisional Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (PLMFT).
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with diverse populations facing mental health challenges, trauma, or crises.
Responsibilities
- Serve the early, middle, and late adult population.
- Provide a specialized counseling component in an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary team approach to planning and treatment.
- Conduct individual and group counseling conjointly or under close supervision.
- Assess the level of care and intervention, including discharge, reassignment, change of treatment strategies and techniques; communicate these findings to the interdisciplinary treatment team.
- Select and recommend, with general supervision, therapeutic intervention strategies and treatment approaches based on psychosocial assessment to an interdisciplinary treatment team.
- Develop a working knowledge of correctional or community resources in order to recommend or refer offenders for specialized services.
- Prepare correspondence with community agencies and serve as primary liaison person with all outside agencies such as courts, schools, foster care, and legal authorities.
- Provide psychosocial case management to individuals, groups, and families when this intervention is determined to be most appropriate.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
