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Responsibilities:
- Provides clinical therapeutic services (i.e., engages, interviews,
assesses, counsels, and educates) to veterans
- Provides individual and group therapy to clients using
evidence-based therapies, practices and protocols.
- Establishes and maintains a professional therapeutic relationship
with all clients and potential clients.
- Develops initial and ongoing client treatment plans.
- Provides direct clinical intervention services and crisis
intervention services to clients in need.
- Maintains confidential and complete client records to include
electronic records management.
- Transitions clients from the therapeutic relationship using
clinically-based protocols.
- Coordinates and collaborates client services with the VA and other
community clinicians as appropriate.
- Oversees curricula for all Clinical Treatment modality groups
(substance abuse and mental health).
- Follows proper clinical protocols on client referrals for needed
services.
- In conjunction with the Clinical Director is responsible for
implementing and maintaining a therapeutic living environment at the
site.
- Ensures adherence to clinically-based protocols.
- Maintains office hours that are conducive to client needs, and an
office environment that is conducive to therapeutic effectiveness.
- Ensures programmatic compliance with all State licensure
requirements.
- Ensures that all services are provided per grant requirements.
- Performs other duties as required.
Ideal candidate must have a thorough understanding of:
- Mental health counseling principles, practices, and applications to
include military cultural competency (e.g., PTSD, depression,
anxiety, and substance abuse)
- Psychosocial assessment modalities, principles, and practices
- Networking, partnership building, outreach, and public speaking
- Crisis intervention and disruptive behavior management (e.g.,
responding to threats of self-harm or hostility toward others)
- Educational and vocational counseling principles, practices, and
applications (e.g., employability and employment stability)
- File documentation practices and electronic records management
- Community resources
- Federal regulations and policies (e.g., HIPAA, Privacy Acts, and
professional ethics)
- Maintains professional standards and demeanor, including the
confidentiality of client data and other sensitive information.