Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor

Veterans Health Administration • Jupiter, FL

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About The Position

The Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor provides direct readjustment counseling, outreach, referrals, and follow-up care coordination to eligible individuals, couples, families, and groups. The role coordinates client care and supports staff professional development, including providing expert clinical consultation on complex psychosocial conditions, relational and readjustment stress, using evidence-based family systems theory and therapy.

The counselor independently delivers clinical services, supports crisis assessment and intervention, coordinates care with inter-professional teams and community providers, and develops individualized service plans. The position also provides clinical supervision, consultation, training, chart oversight, and mentorship for staff and trainees, including supervision toward independent licensure. The position is not virtual. The work schedule is Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with some nights and weekends required.

Requirements

• Master's or doctoral degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling, a combined field, or a related field from a CACREP-accredited program.
• Full, current, unrestricted license to independently practice as a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor, including diagnosis and treatment.
• At least one year of progressively complex LPMHC experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level.
• At least five years of post-licensed experience demonstrating advanced practice skills, judgment, and progressive professional competency and expertise.
• License to provide clinical supervision to trainees or unlicensed LPMHCs.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Advanced knowledge of theories and modalities used to treat complex mental illness.
• Ability to make psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice, and to incorporate multiple causes into differential diagnosis and treatment.
• Ability to prioritize services and provide specialized treatment and interventions, including individual, group, or family counseling or psychotherapy and psychosocial or case-management interventions.
• Ability to coordinate specialized psychosocial services and programs and design system changes based on data.
• Ability to consult with colleagues and trainees, teach and mentor staff, provide supervision, and communicate in writing and orally with leadership, staff, and community stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Independently provide readjustment counseling to eligible individuals, couples, families, and groups.
• Consult with staff on crisis intervention strategies, including risk assessment, safety planning, and complex treatment planning using family systems theory and therapy.
• Coordinate care with inter-professional team members, leadership, community providers, and relevant committees or work groups.
• Serve as a clinical consultant to outreach workers and coordinate referrals from community outreach events.
• Participate in clinical and administrative oversight, staff meetings, and team-building and staff-development activities.
• Document clinical interactions and services in accordance with policy.
• Conduct intake procedures, establish therapeutic relationships, and assess risk for self-harm and psychosocial stressors.
• Develop and periodically update individualized readjustment counseling service plans, including therapeutic and psychosocial interventions and outcome measures.
• Provide clinical consultation and supervision to staff and trainees, including systematic supervision toward licensure and clinical oversight such as chart auditing.
• Perform other duties as assigned that are appropriate to the grade, assignment, and scope of practice.

Benefits

• Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), subject to eligibility and approval; award amounts may be up to $200,000.
• Federal employee benefits package available to eligible employees.

What This Job Offers

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