Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor

We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the posting. Key info: - Summary: eligible for Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - student loan payment reimbursement program. Must meet eligibility per VHA policy and submit EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval - award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) determined by VHA Education Loan Repayment Services after review. Former EDRP participants ineligible. - Qualifications: Applicants pending 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 per 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. CACREP defines date when graduates considered graduated. Additional info may be obtained from http://www.cacrep.org/directory. NOTE: Traditional Rehabilitation counseling programs accredited by CACREP do not meet 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. Loss of Licensure: Once licensed - LPMHCs must maintain a full - valid - and unrestricted license to independently practice mental health counseling - which includes diagnosis and treatment. Loss of licensure will result in removal from the GS-0183 LPMHC occupation and may result in termination of employment. 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). - Grade Determinations: Senior 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 meeting the KSAs for the GS-11 grade level - the candidate must demonstrate all of the KSAs below: - 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. - 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. - Ability to coordinate the delivery of specialized psychosocial services and programs. - Ability to design system changes based on data. - 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. - Ability to teach - mentor staff and trainees - and provide supervision for licensure or for specialty certifications. - 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. - Reference: VA Handbook 5005 - Part II - Appendix G43. - The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-12. The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is GS-12. - Physical Requirements: See VA Directive and Handbook 5019. - Duties Responsibilities: focused on providing direct services - as well as consultative and educational activities. Incumbent employs full range of treatment modalities with individuals - couples - families - and groups. Services will generally be provided in the clinic - and under certain circumstances - via telehealth. The incumbent will focus primarily on addressing the complex mental health needs of Veterans who often are experiencing a wide range of complicated medical - behavioral health - financial - legal and psychosocial concerns. The incumbent provides advanced evaluation and treatment strategies to the full range of patient problems in his/her work setting - including evidenced based therapies - making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnosis within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice. Incumbent employs a high level of skill and expertise to establish and maintain effective therapeutic relationships with Veterans and/or their families. Incumbent is qualified to provide expert advice and consultation to professionals representing a variety of disciplines and is required to exercise independent and expert judgment in the selection of or adaptation of standard and accepted theories - techniques and practices. The incumbent will provide clinical consultation to less experienced staff - will coordinate care including in times of crisis and will serve as the subject matter expert for the discipline. The Senior LPMHC must have five years of post licensure experience demonstrating possession of advanced practice skills and judgment and must be licensed to provide clinical supervision to trainees and unlicensed LPMHCs. - Work Schedule: Monday through Friday - 8:00am to 4:30pm. Telework: Available ad hoc as per agency policy. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. - Functional Statement #: 000000 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required. We need to decide sections. We have content for: - About the role: maybe summary of position (EDRP eligibility, etc). Could be "About the role" includes summary about EDRP, maybe also mention it's a Senior LPMHC GS-12. - Responsibilities: duties responsibilities. - Requirements: basic requirements (citizenship, education, licensure, grade determinations, etc). Could be "Requirements". - Qualifications: maybe separate from Requirements? The posting has "Qualifications" heading originally. It includes applicants pending completion may be referred etc. Also includes basic requirements etc. Might combine. But we must not create thin sections. We need to decide which sections have substantive content. Potential sections: - About the role: includes EDRP info, maybe mention it's a Senior LPMHC GS-12 position. - Responsibilities: duties. - Requirements: includes citizenship, education, licensure, grade determinations, experience, KSAs, physical requirements. - Qualifications: maybe the "Applicants pending the completion..." could be part of Requirements or Qualifications. Could be separate Qualifications section: includes that applicants pending completion may be referred etc. - Skills: The KSAs list could be considered Skills. But we already have KSAs under Requirements. Could move them to Skills. - Benefits: EDRP info is a benefit (student loan repayment). Could be Benefits section. - Pay: Not explicitly stated besides grade GS-12. No salary range. So we should NOT create Pay section because no specific pay info. - Schedule: Work schedule info present: Monday-Friday 8am-4:30pm, telework ad hoc, not virtual. So we can include Schedule section. 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• for lists. We need to preserve all substantive info; do not invent or summarize away detail. Must keep details like award amount up to $200,000, eligibility period one to five years, etc. We must not repeat job title. We must not include boilerplate like Functional Statement #, Relocation/Recruitment Incentives, etc? Those are not boilerplate; they are specifics. Should we include them? The instruction: Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Functional Statement # and Relocation/Recruitment Incentives are not those; they are specifics about the position. Should we keep them? Probably yes, as they are substantive. However they may be considered metadata like Job ID? Not exactly. The instruction says "do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

  or drop it." Functional Statement # is similar to a code; could be considered minor metadata. Might be okay to drop or include in a short p. Safer to drop it? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Functional Statement # is not substantive about the job duties; it's an internal code. Might be considered minor metadata. I'd drop it. Similarly Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized, PCS: Not Authorized, Financial Disclosure Report: Not required. Those are specifics about benefits/conditions; could be considered substantive. But they are basically saying not authorized/not required. Might be considered filler? The instruction says never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Here we have "Not Authorized" etc. That's like "not specified" but it's a statement that they are not authorized. Could be considered substantive? It says they are not offered. Might be considered relevant. However the instruction about Benefits section: only create if posting actually states them. It does state Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized. That's a statement about benefits (none). Should we include? Might be considered a benefit section with "None". But the instruction says never create Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state them (as Not Authorized). So we could include a Benefits section that says "Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized; Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized; Financial Disclosure Report: Not required." That seems okay. But we already have Benefits section for EDRP. Could combine. We need to avoid duplication. Let's structure:

  About the role

  This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. Applicants must meet VHA eligibility requirements and submit an EDRP application within four months of appointment. Award amounts can be up to $200,000 with eligibility periods of one to five years, determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services office after review. Former EDRP participants are ineligible. The role is for a Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor (GS‑12) within VHA.

  Responsibilities

  • Provide direct services, consultative and educational activities.
  • Employ the full range of treatment modalities with individuals, couples, families, and groups.
  • Deliver services primarily in the clinic, with occasional telehealth.
  • Focus on addressing complex mental health needs of Veterans experiencing medical, behavioral health, financial, legal, and psychosocial concerns.
  • Provide advanced evaluation and treatment strategies, including evidence‑based therapies and psychosocial/psychiatric diagnosis within approved clinical privileges.
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