Licensed Professional Counselor - Chambersburg Outpatient - Days / Evenings

About the role

Full-time (80 hours biweekly) on weekdays during daytime hours with two evenings per week up to 7 pm. Sign-on bonus eligible.

Responsibilities

• Performs clinical interventions with patients (children through older adults), families/significant others, staff, outside organizations and providers to coordinate patient care, implement treatment and perform discharge planning.
• Provides psychosocial assessments and clinical therapies (individual, couples, group, play, and family therapies) to patients of Behavioral Health Services.
• May be required to travel between clinical sites to assist in the provision of care.

Inpatient Job Specifics

• Provides individual, group, and family therapy using a wide range of techniques designed to treat mental illness, emotional problems, social and interpersonal problems, and functional deficits.
• Assists in developing and executing individual treatment plans for patients.
• Supports day-to-day oversight of all therapeutic activities.
• Maintains awareness of significant patient history, present status, and any precautions in effect.
• Collaborates with other staff to provide input into treatment plans for individual patients.
• Orients family members to the nature of therapeutic services and the specific program.
• Increases family members’ understanding of patient needs and progress.
• Exhibits clinically appropriate relational skills (e.g., accurate empathy, active listening).
• Manages behavioral crises including 1:1 observation, redirection, and crisis team interventions.
• Writes behavioral management and safety plans for acute patients in cooperation with treatment team recommendations.
• Completes assessments as needed.
• Communicates relevant client progress and participates in weekly treatment team planning.
• Maintains ongoing professional relationships with personnel from public agencies and mental health/drug and alcohol treatment facilities.
• Conducts inter-agency meetings as necessary.
• Collaborates in appropriate treatment and discharge planning with client, supports, and community agencies.
• Assists in the implementation of education and training experiences for interns or other designated students.

Outpatient Job Specifics

• Performs intake assessments as scheduled and documents appropriately; remains flexible to accommodate emergent cases.
• Ensures admission assessments contain background information, current mental status, treatment recommendations, discharge planning needs, target problems for treatment, and expected patient outcomes.
• Appropriately utilizes standardized tools and scales to assess and reassess patient functioning (e.g., adolescent and geriatric depression scales, GAF, etc.).
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for development, review, and revision of the plan of care for outpatients; completes within 2 visits.
• Develops measurable expected outcomes/target objectives with recognition of age-related variations in psychosocial and developmental functional capacity.
• Incorporates patient/family teaching into the plan of treatment, including patient-identified target symptoms with severity ratings.
• Documents discharge plan, revisions to the Plan of Care, and final discharge instructions and linkages to community services per current policy.
• Accurately assesses interventions made and reassesses data to plan further interventions throughout the therapeutic process in a responsive and timely manner to meet patient needs and third-party payor requirements.
• Implements treatment modalities appropriate to the age/population served.
• Markets the therapeutic value of therapy group participation and solicits referrals from appropriate sources.
• Implements, facilitates, and maintains therapy group participation the majority of the calendar year.
• Facilitates therapy groups effectively and consistently; maintains accurate attendance and participation documentation as required by licensure regulations.
• Plans for education needs of students assigned for supervision of internship and assumes responsibility for communication with hospital staff regarding the student’s plan of internship.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited Master’s degree program in counseling, psychology or other mental health field.
• Minimum of two (2) years clinical experience in the mental health field including the provision of psychotherapy to individuals, families, couples, and/or groups.
• Play therapy experience required as applicable.
• Licensed as a Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania.
• Current CPR certification required.
• Child Abuse History Clearance and Criminal Background Check required.
• Experience applying customer service behaviors and communication skills required.
• Evidence of participation in educational programs to update and maintain knowledge and clinical skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Education assistance
• Financial education and support, including DailyPay
• Expanded Paid Parental Leave