Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes summary, qualifications, duties, work schedule, pay, benefits. Must use

for section headings. Do not repeat job title. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate. Include only sections with real content. We need to parse content. Summary: "The Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor is a full-time position within the Mental Health ICC at the Syracuse VA Medical Center." That's about the role. Qualifications: includes basic requirements, education, licensure, GS-11 grade determinations, etc. We need to preserve all substantive info. Could be long. We'll output as

• items. Duties: list of responsibilities. Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Pay: "Competitive salary and regular salary increases - When setting pay - a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade)". That's pay info. Benefits: Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Child Care Subsidy, Retirement, Insurance. We need sections: About the role (maybe heading "About the role"), Qualifications, Responsibilities (or Duties), Work Schedule, Pay, Benefits. Use

  for each. We must not include sections with placeholder like "not specified". All have content. We must not include duplicated lines. We need to preserve all substantive info; not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include details like citizenship, education specifics, licensure, grandfathering, experience requirement, KSAs list, etc. We must be careful to not include boilerplate like "Physical Requirements: See VA Directive and Handbook 5019***This vacancy is a multi-disciplinary announcement.*** If you are a Social Worker..." etc. Also remove "Duties" heading? We'll use Responsibilities. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's craft. First, About the role:

  The Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor is a full-time position within the Mental Health ICC at the Syracuse VA Medical Center.

  Qualifications: We'll break into subpoints maybe but just a list. We need to include: - United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy - Education: Hold a master's 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 CACREP. Examples: Addiction Counseling, Community Counseling, Gerontology Counseling, Marital - Couple - and Family Counseling. Note about CACREP date, Traditional Rehabilitation counseling programs not meet LPMHC qualification standards. - Licensure: Persons hired or reassigned to LPMHC positions in the GS-0183 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. Note about VHA policy for those without independent practice license must be supervised. May qualify based on Grandfathering Provision (only applicable to current VHA employees in this occupation meeting criteria). - GS-11 Grade Determinations (Full Performance Level): Experience - Education - and Licensure: In addition to basic requirements - candidates must have at least one year of post-master's or post-doctoral degree mental health counseling experience (VA or non-VA experience) and must be licensed to practice at the independent practice level and demonstrate the KSAs in subparagraph (c) below. LPMHCs may provide clinical supervision over the clinical practice of an unlicensed LPMHC or LPMHC trainee. Some state licenses do not license an individual to provide clinical supervision to trainees or unlicensed LPMHCs; refer to state licensing laws. - Assignments: This is the full performance grade level for LPMHCs. At this level they are licensed to independently practice professional counseling and to provide mental health services within the knowledge - theory - and training foundations of professional counseling. LPMHCs may be assigned to any VHA area - consulting with peers and supervisors as appropriate. LPMHCs may be involved in program evaluation and/or research activities. - Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities: In addition to meeting the KSAs for the GS-9 grade level - the candidate must demonstrate all of the KSAs below: (list 1-8). We'll list each as

  . We need to preserve the KSAs text exactly as given. Let's extract KSAs: 1Ability to make professional evaluations - decisions - and recommendation for treatment planning and implementation 2Advanced knowledge and mastery of the fundamentals of the counseling process which includes defining patient/family problems and maintaining an effective counseling relationship 3Ability to provide subject matter consultation to colleagues and trainees on the counseling process within various specialty areas - build on the foundation of competence through regular meetings and discussions to explain assignments - review progress of cases and confer about the counseling perspectives and orientation 4Ability to provide complex crisis intervention and stabilization to patients who are in psychological distressRequires independent judgment and skill 5Ability to establish goals/treatment through a collaborative process with the patient utilizing advanced counseling skills - including evidenced- based practices - screening - and psychosocial assessment 6Ability to use a wide variety of individual - group - or family counseling interventions 7Ability to fully utilize the current DSM in making diagnoses and formulation of treatment goals and application of appropriate clinical intervention using professional counseling practices 8Ability to develop and facilitate psychotherapy and psycho- education groups that include life skills - family support - and community integrationThis may include evidence based psychotherapy We'll keep them as is. Duties/Responsibilities: list of major duties. Extract: - Provide individual and couples psychotherapy using evidence-based - recovery-focused - and trauma-informed approaches - Complete psychosocial assessments and collaboratively develop treatment plans using Measurement Based Care - Apply knowledge of psychiatric conditions - evidence-based treatment protocols (including CBT and CPT) - and common psychotropic medications - including their effects and side effects - Accurately use mental health and medical diagnostic terminology to support clear communication with the healthcare team - Participate in collaborative clinical discussions and advocate for Veterans' psychosocial and mental health needs - including factors affecting treatment adherence - Document all clinical services in the electronic health record and review provider notes to ensure coordinated - comprehensive care - Conduct rapid assessments and develop crisis management plans - including evaluation for psychiatric hospitalization or residential program admission - Routinely assess Veterans' mental health needs during outpatient treatment - coordinate transitions between levels of care - and support timely discharge planning to the least restrictive environment - Perform additional duties as assigned in response to service and organizational needs - Engage in ongoing professional development through self-assessment - supervision - and clinical discussions Also earlier description: "This position provides outpatient mental health services to Veterans connected with the Syracuse VAMC and its Community-Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) and is based at the Oswego VA CBOCThe Syracuse VAMC is a large - complexity level 1C facility serving Veterans - families - and caregivers across thirteen counties - including seven CBOCsAs an affiliated tertiary care system - it offers a broad range of specialized programsThe VAMC also partners with three Vet CentersPrimary responsibilities include delivering psychiatric interventions - mental health treatment - and stabilization services in an outpatient settingThe LPMHC provides recovery-oriented - trauma informed psychotherapy for individuals and couples - conducts psychosocial assessments - crisisinterventions - and treatment planning - and employs measurement-based care and other evidence based practicesServices are delivered both in person and via telehealth to ensure access to care" We should include that as prose maybe before list. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases - When setting pay - a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade) Benefits: Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave - 13 days of sick leave - 11 paid Federal holidays per year)Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual - based on prior [work experience] or military service experienceParental Leave: After 12 months of employment - up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth - adoption - or foster care placement of a childChild Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment - full time employees with a total family income below $144 -000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) We need to format benefits as list. Now produce HTML. We'll wrap each section in

  heading then content. For qualifications, we may want to split into subheadings? Not required; just a list. We'll output:

  About the role

  ...

  Qualifications

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  But qualifications includes many subpoints; we could make nested lists but not required. We'll just list each bullet as

  with the content. We need to ensure we don't lose any detail. Let's craft qualifications list items: - United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy - Education: Hold a master's 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. CACREP defines the date when graduates are considered to have graduated from a CACREP accredited program. NOTE: Traditional Rehabilitation counseling programs that are accredited by CACREP do not meet the LPMHC qualification standards as Traditional Rehabilitation counseling differs from Clinical Rehabilitation counseling. - Licensure: Persons hired or reassigned to LPMHC positions in the GS-0183 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. NOTE: It is VHA policy that a LPMHC who does not yet have a license that allows independent practice must be supervised by a licensed independent practitioner of the same discipline who is a VA staff member and who has access to the electronic health record. May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria). - GS-11 Grade Determinations (Full Performance Level): Experience - Education - and Licensure: In addition to the basic requirements - candidates must have at least one year of post-master's or post- doctoral degree mental health counseling experience (VA or non-VA experience) and must be licensed to practice at the independent practice level and demonstrate the KSAs in subparagraph (c) below. LPMHCs may provide clinical supervision over the clinical practice of an unlicensed LPMHC or LPMHC trainee. Some state licenses do not license an individual to provide clinical supervision to trainees or unlicensed LPMHCs. Please refer to specific state licensing laws regarding the requirements for providing clinical supervision. - Assignments: This is the full performance grade level for LPMHCs. At this level they are licensed to independently practice professional counseling and