Senior 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, no invention. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the posting. Key info: - Summary: This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - a 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: Basic Requirements: US Citizenship (non-citizens only if cannot recruit qualified citizens). English Language Proficiency. Education: 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 CACREP accredited program. List examples: Addiction Counseling, Community Counseling, Gerontology Counseling, Marital - Couple - and Family Counseling. Note about CACREP date. Note: Traditional Rehabilitation counseling programs accredited by CACREP do not meet LPMHC qualification standards. - Licensure: Must hold full current unrestricted license to independently practice as a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor (includes diagnosis and treatment). - Grade Determinations: Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor (LPMHC) - GS-12: Experience - Education and Licensure: In addition to basic requirements, candidates must have at least one year of progressively complex LPMHC experience equivalent to 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 KSAs for GS-11 grade level - candidate must demonstrate all of the KSAs below: Advanced knowledge of and mastery of theories and modalities used in 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 (includes individual - group - and/or family counseling - or psychotherapy and advanced level psychosocial - and/or case management interventions used in 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. - Physical Requirements: The work does not inherently include physical requirements essential for successful job performance that could not otherwise be performed with a workplace accommodation. - NOTE: Readjustment Counselors are multi-disciplinary and can be filled by: Social Worker - Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor - and Marriage & Family Therapist. Each discipline announced separately. - Duties: The Vet Center Senior Counselor provides direct counseling services - outreach - referral - and follow-up care coordination to eligible individuals - couples - and family members. The Senior Counselor plays a key role in the coordination of client care and staff professional development - providing expert clinical consultation to other clinicians on complex psychosocial conditions - relational and readjustment stress utilizing evidence-based family systems theory/therapy. Responsible for the following domains of service for providing direct readjustment counseling to eligible clients and for developing staff performance through training and clinical supervision. Then list of duties: - Direct Service Provision: Independently implement professional clinical practice applications in the provision of readjustment counseling to individuals - couples - families - and groups. - Risk Assessment and Crisis Intervention: Provides consultation and associated support for staff developing crisis intervention strategies - which includes assessment - safety planning - and complex treatment planning using independent clinical judgment using family systems theory/therapy. - Care Coordination: Communicates routinely with inter-professional team members and leadership to communicate about program and patient issues for in-depth problem solving - while consistently modeling ethical and professional behaviors and standards to include multicultural awareness. Serves on committees - work groups - and task forces at the facility - Medical Center and Zone - District - or national level - or in the community as deemed appropriate by the Vet Center Director. - Outreach: Acts as clinical consultant to the Vet Center outreach workers to improve their sensitivity to clinical indicators and basic interviewing questions to expedite the transition of prospective clients contacted on outreach to actual Vet Center readjustment counseling clients. Actively Coordinates with Vet Center Outreach Specialists to ensure seamless referral of individuals engaged in the community at outreach events. - Documentation/Administrative Responsibilities/Consultation: Actively participate in one-to-one clinical and administrative oversight during administrative and clinical staff meetings as directed by the Vet Center Director. Documents clinical interactions and services delivered as required by policy. - Screening and Assessment: Works directly with eligible individuals to establish a therapeutic relationship sufficient for completing all required readjustment counseling intake procedures to include an assessment of risk for self-harm and psychosocial stressors. - Counseling Planning/Goal Setting: Based on the outcome of the intake - will develop and periodically update an individualized readjustment counseling service plan that reflects a course of therapeutic and psychosocial interventions - inclusive of outcome measurements. - Clinical Supervision - Consultation - Training - Review and Evaluation: Provides clinical consultation services to other staff members with clinical service responsibilities under the supervision of the Vet Center Director. The scope of clinical consultation services will include all aspects of direct readjustment counseling service such as advising on the clinical assessment - service planning - and case coordination with community providers when the individual's needs are beyond the scope of services available at a Vet Center. Will provide clinical consultation and supervision to meet the requirements for independent licensure with special attention to providing to unlicensed staff/trainees systematic clinical supervision towards licensure. Will provide clinical oversight (chart auditing - etc) as outlined by policy. - Team cohesion and coordination: Actively participate in staff meetings designed to promote team building and staff development. - Other Duties: May perform other duties as assigned as appropriate for the grade and assignment and which are within the scope of practice. - Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm some nights and weekends required. - Telework: Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. - Functional Statement #: 82263A - Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact VHAEDRPProgramSupport@va.gov - the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more. - Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized. We need to decide sections. We have content for: - About the role: Could be summary/overview (the first paragraph about EDRP eligibility). Could also include description of role (Vet Center Senior Counselor provides direct counseling services...). But we need to avoid duplication. - Responsibilities: Duties list. - Requirements: Basic requirements (citizenship, English proficiency, education, licensure). Could also include grade determinations? Might be qualifications. - Qualifications: Could include education, licensure, experience, KSAs. - Skills: Could be the KSAs list (advanced knowledge, etc.) but those are also qualifications. - Benefits: EDRP details (award amount up to $200k, eligibility period 1-5 years). Also maybe relocation incentives? Not authorized. EDPR authorized. So benefits section could include EDRP. - Pay: Not specified; no salary info. So we should NOT create Pay section. - Schedule: Work schedule given (Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm some nights and weekends required). Also telework info (not virtual). So schedule section can include that. We must not create sections with placeholder or vague content like "commensurate with experience". We have actual specifics for EDRP award amount and period, so Benefits section is valid. We must not repeat job title. We must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Already removed. We need to output only HTML fragment, using

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  for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information. Must not invent or summarize away detail. Must keep details like "up to $200 -000" (note there is a space? The text says "$200 -000". Probably a typo but we must preserve as is. We'll keep exactly "$200 -000". Also eligibility period "one to five years". Also mention "Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply". Also mention contact email. We need to include all details from duties, qualifications, etc. We must decide how to split content into sections. Potential sections: - About the role: summary paragraph about EDRP eligibility and maybe brief role description. - Responsibilities: list of duties (the bullet points under Duties). Could be a

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  . - Qualifications: maybe include grade determinations and KSAs? Or we could combine Requirements and Qualifications? But we need to follow instruction: use headings only when posting has real specific content. We can have both Requirements and Qualifications if they have distinct content. Qualifications could include: Senior LPMHC GS-12 requirements: experience, five years post-licensed experience, ability to provide clinical supervision, etc. Also the KSAs list. Skills: maybe the KSAs list could go under Skills. But KSAs are knowledge, skills, abilities. Could be under Skills. But we need to avoid duplication. Let's think: The posting has "Qualifications" heading in original (Basic Requirements, Education, Licensure, Grade Determinations, Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills and Abilities). So we could map: - Requirements: Basic Requirements (citizenship, English proficiency, Education, Licensure). That seems like basic qualifications. - Qualifications: Grade Determinations (experience, senior LPMHC GS-12) and Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills and Abilities (the KSAs). That seems appropriate. - Skills: maybe not needed if we put KSAs under Qualifications. But we could still have Skills section for the KSAs if we want. However instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine KSAs into Qualifications and not have separate Skills. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Schedule. Check if we have content for Benefits: EDRP details. Yes. Schedule: Work schedule and telework info. Now we need to ensure we don't miss any substantive info: The note about Readjustment Counselors multi-disciplinary, each discipline announced separately. That's substantive; where to place? Could be under About the role or Requirements? It's a note about the position classification. Could be under About the role as additional context. Also Functional Statement #: 82263A - maybe minor metadata; we could fold into a short p or drop. The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

  or drop it. So we can include Functional Statement in a short p maybe under About the role or at end. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Authorized EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact email. Learn more. That's part of Benefits? Could be under Benefits as well. Permanent Change of Station (PCS):