Counselor/Therapist

About the Role

This position provides behavioral health counseling, psychiatric care, and other care coordination and support services to help individuals build life skills and well-being through outpatient mental health programming. The role involves working as a Counselor/Therapist at the Union County Office (UCO) under the supervision of the Behavioral Health Director.

Responsibilities

• Intervenes and evaluates consumers, establishes diagnosis.
• Develops treatment plan collaboratively with consumers by defining goals, specific outcomes and time frames for treatment.
• Intervenes therapeutically to change attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of consumers to improve individual and family level of functioning.
• Provides crisis intervention to stabilize consumer's condition by utilizing short term crisis intervention techniques and/or referral to other support services.
• Maintains networking and referral contacts with other human service providers both internally and externally.
• Completes required monthly direct service hours to consumers as defined on Direct Service Requirement sheet.
• Carries a caseload as assigned by supervisor.
• Facilitates comprehensive consumer care by providing case management services.
• Effectively teaches life-management skills to consumers.
• Provides and arranges transportation services to consumers which they translate to their natural environment.
• Demonstrates active involvement in supervision and clinical staffings.
• Ability to screen, assess and provide interventions for consumers that are exhibiting symptoms of trauma.
• Other duties as assigned.

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours/week. Afterhours on-call rotation required.

Qualifications

• FLSA Classification: Non-exempt