Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor
The duties of the Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor in Outpatient Texarkana Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC)of the Mental Health Service include but are not limited to:
Provides clinical senior psychotherapy services to the Veteran population enrolled in a CBOC team aimed at recovery. Encumbent provides independent, expert clinical psychosocial and case management services in a specialized area of practice. Participates in the professional development of colleagues through mentorship and teaching. Performs independent practice, expands clinical knowledge in the profession, provides consultation and guidance to colleagues, models effective practice skills, teaches or provides orientation to less experienced LPMHCs, develops innovations in practice interventions, and may provide clinical supervision for licensure or certification. Develop assessment of the veteran in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team. Independently implement effective individual and group treatment modalities for Veterans and their families, and to measure outcomes to these interventions. Intensive psychotherapy requiring the exercise of mature professional judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of complex discipline. Provides consultation to colleagues, renders professional opinions based on experience and expertise, and incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment. Utilizes outcome evaluations to further treatment and designs system changes based on empirical findings. Develops and collaborates with treatment plans for assigned cases and implements treatment plan while providing guidance, emotional support, counseling, individual/group psychotherapy services. Performs independent practice, expands clinical knowledge in the profession, provides consultation and guidance to colleagues, models effective practice skills, teaches or provides orientation to less experienced Evaluation and assessment of clinical need, diagnosis and treatment for those Veterans in the CBOC population in need of clinical psychotherapy intervention aimed at recovery. Independently implement effective individual and group treatment modalities for Veterans and their families, and to measure outcomes to these interventions. Develops working relationships and agreements with other organizations and community groups having similar service relationships with the same patient population as the patient. Collaborates with other members of the CBOC Team or other interdisciplinary treatment teams as appropriate. Serves as a Mental Health Treatment Coordinator/Clinical Case Manager for assigned Veterans within the CBOC clinical population who are identified as being at moderate to high risk of suicide. Provides clinical case management, clinical treatment, advocacy, and coordination of referrals to other appropriate internal or external service providers /agencies as needed by the Veterans in the CBOC population. Serves as mentor to other LPMHCs, particularly those at the entry level, and students. Maintains availability to provide clinical supervision to such individuals as organizational needs indicate. Additional duties as assigned. Work Schedule:
Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:
30 p.m. Subject to change based on agency needs. Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Basic Requirements:
United States Citizenship:
Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. English Language Proficiency:
Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 7403(f). Education:
The VHA LPMHC must have a master's degree or doctoral degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling, Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling OR a related field, from a program accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). Examples of related mental health counseling fields include but are not limited to Addiction Counseling, Community Counseling, Gerontology Counseling, Marital, Couple and Family Counseling. Licensure:
Persons hired or reassigned to LPMHC positions in the GS-0101 series in VHA must hold a full, current, and unrestricted license to independently practice as a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor, which includes diagnosis and treatment. Preferred
Experience:
None. Grade Determinations:
Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor, GS-12 Experience, Education, and Licensure. In addition to the basic requirements, candidates must have at least one year of progressively complex LPMHC experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Senior LPMHCs must have five years of post-licensed experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and judgment, demonstrating progressive professional competency and expertise and be licensed to provide clinical supervision to trainees or unlicensed LPMHCs. Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. In addition to the experience above, candidates must demonstrate all of the following KSAs:
(a) Advanced knowledge of and mastery of theories and modalities used in the specialized treatment of complex mental illness. Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice. Ability to determine priority of services needed and provide specialized treatment. (b) Advanced and expert skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities for Veterans with complex needs. This includes individual, group, and/or family counseling, or psychotherapy and advanced level psychosocial, and/or case management interventions used in the treatment of Veterans. (c) Ability to coordinate the delivery of specialized psychosocial services and programs. Ability to design system changes based on data. (d) Ability to provide subject matter consultation to colleagues and trainees on the psychosocial treatment of patients, rendering professional opinions based on experience, expertise and role modeling effective clinical skills. (e) Ability to teach, mentor staff and trainees, and provide supervision for licensure or for specialty certifications. (f) Ability to engage in written and oral communication with leadership/staff and community stakeholders regarding policies, procedures, practice guidelines, and issues pertaining to the practice of the profession. References:
VA Handbook 5005/106, Part II Appendix G43, Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor Qualification Standards dtd April 3, 2018. This can be found in the local Human Resources Office. This position is above full performance level. Physical Requirements:
The work dictates standing, walking, bending, and lifting light objects such as office chairs, typewriters, and tape recorders. Stress involved in working with physically and psychologically impaired patients renders this position psychologically demanding. The physical demands include light lifting (under 15 pounds), heavy lifting (45 pounds and over), light carrying (under 15 pounds), walking/standing .5 hours, and hearing with aid. (See VA Directive and Handbook 5019, Employee Occupational Health Services).
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Provides clinical senior psychotherapy services to the Veteran population enrolled in a CBOC team aimed at recovery. Encumbent provides independent, expert clinical psychosocial and case management services in a specialized area of practice. Participates in the professional development of colleagues through mentorship and teaching. Performs independent practice, expands clinical knowledge in the profession, provides consultation and guidance to colleagues, models effective practice skills, teaches or provides orientation to less experienced LPMHCs, develops innovations in practice interventions, and may provide clinical supervision for licensure or certification. Develop assessment of the veteran in collaboration with the interdisciplinary treatment team. Independently implement effective individual and group treatment modalities for Veterans and their families, and to measure outcomes to these interventions. Intensive psychotherapy requiring the exercise of mature professional judgment and the flexible use of a wide range of complex discipline. Provides consultation to colleagues, renders professional opinions based on experience and expertise, and incorporates complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment. Utilizes outcome evaluations to further treatment and designs system changes based on empirical findings. Develops and collaborates with treatment plans for assigned cases and implements treatment plan while providing guidance, emotional support, counseling, individual/group psychotherapy services. Performs independent practice, expands clinical knowledge in the profession, provides consultation and guidance to colleagues, models effective practice skills, teaches or provides orientation to less experienced Evaluation and assessment of clinical need, diagnosis and treatment for those Veterans in the CBOC population in need of clinical psychotherapy intervention aimed at recovery. Independently implement effective individual and group treatment modalities for Veterans and their families, and to measure outcomes to these interventions. Develops working relationships and agreements with other organizations and community groups having similar service relationships with the same patient population as the patient. Collaborates with other members of the CBOC Team or other interdisciplinary treatment teams as appropriate. Serves as a Mental Health Treatment Coordinator/Clinical Case Manager for assigned Veterans within the CBOC clinical population who are identified as being at moderate to high risk of suicide. Provides clinical case management, clinical treatment, advocacy, and coordination of referrals to other appropriate internal or external service providers /agencies as needed by the Veterans in the CBOC population. Serves as mentor to other LPMHCs, particularly those at the entry level, and students. Maintains availability to provide clinical supervision to such individuals as organizational needs indicate. Additional duties as assigned. Work Schedule:
Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:
30 p.m. Subject to change based on agency needs. Financial Disclosure Report:
Not required Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Basic Requirements:
United States Citizenship:
Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy. English Language Proficiency:
Candidates must be proficient in spoken and written English to be appointed as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 7403(f). Education:
The VHA LPMHC must have a master's degree or doctoral degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling, Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling OR a related field, from a program accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP). Examples of related mental health counseling fields include but are not limited to Addiction Counseling, Community Counseling, Gerontology Counseling, Marital, Couple and Family Counseling. Licensure:
Persons hired or reassigned to LPMHC positions in the GS-0101 series in VHA must hold a full, current, and unrestricted license to independently practice as a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor, which includes diagnosis and treatment. Preferred
Experience:
None. Grade Determinations:
Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor, GS-12 Experience, Education, and Licensure. In addition to the basic requirements, candidates must have at least one year of progressively complex LPMHC experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level. Senior LPMHCs must have five years of post-licensed experience that demonstrates possession of advanced practice skills and judgment, demonstrating progressive professional competency and expertise and be licensed to provide clinical supervision to trainees or unlicensed LPMHCs. Demonstrated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities. In addition to the experience above, candidates must demonstrate all of the following KSAs:
(a) Advanced knowledge of and mastery of theories and modalities used in the specialized treatment of complex mental illness. Ability to incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice. Ability to determine priority of services needed and provide specialized treatment. (b) Advanced and expert skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities for Veterans with complex needs. This includes individual, group, and/or family counseling, or psychotherapy and advanced level psychosocial, and/or case management interventions used in the treatment of Veterans. (c) Ability to coordinate the delivery of specialized psychosocial services and programs. Ability to design system changes based on data. (d) Ability to provide subject matter consultation to colleagues and trainees on the psychosocial treatment of patients, rendering professional opinions based on experience, expertise and role modeling effective clinical skills. (e) Ability to teach, mentor staff and trainees, and provide supervision for licensure or for specialty certifications. (f) Ability to engage in written and oral communication with leadership/staff and community stakeholders regarding policies, procedures, practice guidelines, and issues pertaining to the practice of the profession. References:
VA Handbook 5005/106, Part II Appendix G43, Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor Qualification Standards dtd April 3, 2018. This can be found in the local Human Resources Office. This position is above full performance level. Physical Requirements:
The work dictates standing, walking, bending, and lifting light objects such as office chairs, typewriters, and tape recorders. Stress involved in working with physically and psychologically impaired patients renders this position psychologically demanding. The physical demands include light lifting (under 15 pounds), heavy lifting (45 pounds and over), light carrying (under 15 pounds), walking/standing .5 hours, and hearing with aid. (See VA Directive and Handbook 5019, Employee Occupational Health Services).
- Department:
0101 Social Science - Salary Range:
$76,721 to $99,741 per year
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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