Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor- BHIP

We need to produce HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes a summary paragraph describing role. Could be "About the role". Then "Qualifications" (basic requirements, grade determinations, etc). Then "Responsibilities" (Duties). Then maybe "Work Schedule". The posting includes Work Schedule: Monday through Friday - 8:00 a.m to 4:30 p.m. Telework: Available at agency discretion. Virtual: not a virtual position. Also Functional Statement #, Relocation/Recruitment Incentives, PCS. Those are metadata; we can fold minor metadata into 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 a short p for Work Schedule maybe as part of "Schedule" section if present. The posting includes Work Schedule details, so we can create a Schedule section with that info. Also Telework info maybe part of Schedule or Benefits? Not benefits. Could be part of Schedule. We'll include Schedule section with that info. Benefits: Not mentioned. Pay: Not mentioned. So we omit Pay and Benefits sections. We need to use

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  for prose. We must preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all qualifications details: Basic Requirements (citizenship, English proficiency, education, licensure, grandfather provision, grade determinations). Also GS-12 experience requirements, KSAs, preferred experience. Also Physical and Mental/Emotional Requirements. Also Duties. Also Work Schedule. Also maybe Functional Statement # etc as minor metadata; we can drop or put in a p. We must not repeat the job title as a heading. The title is "Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor". We'll not use that as heading. We need to decide sections: About the role (summary), Qualifications (maybe split into Basic Requirements, Experience Requirements, KSAs, Preferred Experience, Physical/Mental Requirements). But we should prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. However we need to preserve all detail; we can combine into one Qualifications section with subheadings? But only allowed headings are

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  sections each for a logical grouping: About the role, Qualifications, Responsibilities, Work Schedule, Physical & Mental Requirements. That's okay. We must not create sections with filler text. So each heading must have real content. Let's extract content. Summary paragraph: "The Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor will be part of the Mental Health Service at the Chillicothe VA Medical Center and will play a therapist role in the context of the Mental Health Clinic's Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP) Team in the provision of specialty outpatient care to Veterans. This position will be located at the Wilmington Clinic Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC)." That's About the role. Qualifications: Basic Requirements list: - United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy - English Language Proficiency: In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d) - no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English - Education: Master's or doctoral degree in one of the following: 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 to have graduated from a CACREP accredited program. Additional info may be obtained from http://www.cacrep.org/directory/ 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: Must hold a full - current - and unrestricted license to independently practice as a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor - which includes diagnosis and treatment - Grandfather Provision: An LPMHC employed in VHA on the effective date of the qualification standard (4/3/2018) who did not meet all the basic requirements in this standard may not be promoted beyond the full performance level (GS-11) or be newly placed in supervisory or managerial positions until meeting the full qualification requirements - Grade Determinations: In addition to the basic requirements stated above - the following qualification criteria must be met for each grade - The candidate's qualifications must clearly demonstrate the level of competence required for the grade - GS-12 Senior LPMHC Experience Requirements: In addition to meeting the basic requirements - you must possess: * A minimum of 5 years of post-licensed experience (with at least 1 year equivalent to the GS-11 grade level) 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 - AND * Experience that Demonstrates the following GS-11 Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities? Ability to make professional evaluations - decisions - and recommendation for treatment planning and implementation Advanced knowledge and mastery of the fundamentals of the counseling process which includes defining patient/family problems and maintaining an effective counseling relationship Ability 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 Ability to provide complex crisis intervention and stabilization to patients who are in psychological distress Requires independent judgment and skill Ability to establish goals/treatment through a collaborative process with the patient utilizing advanced counseling skills - including evidenced- based practices - screening - and psychosocial assessment Ability to use a wide variety of individual - group - or family counseling interventions Ability to fully utilize the current DSM in making diagnoses and formulation of treatment goals and application of appropriate clinical intervention using professional counseling practices Ability to develop and facilitate psychotherapy and psycho- education groups that include life skills - family support - and community integration This may include evidence-based psychotherapy - GS-12 Senior LPMHC Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities: In addition to meeting the GS-11 level experience and KSAs above - you must possess the following Knowledge - Skills and Abilities (KSAs): * 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 - Preferred Experience: General mental health (behavioral health interdisciplinary program) training in evidence-based psychotherapy; Couple and/or family therapy experience - Reference: For more information on this qualification standard - please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/ - 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 and Mental/Emotional Requirements: The work is sometimes sedentary; Typically - the employee will sit to perform administrative work; However - other position duties include physical requirements which include but not limited to - long periods of walking, standing, bending, crouching, reaching and lifting of a variety of moderately heavy items - carrying of light items such as papers - books - small parts or driving an automobile - etc; No special physical demands are required to perform the work; The incumbent of this position will be expected to understand - remember - and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information; understand - remember - and communicate routine - factual information; understand complex problems and to collaborate and explore alternative solutions; understand opposing points of view on highly complex issues and to negotiate and integrate different viewpoints; organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology; organize and prioritize own work schedule on short-term basis (longer than one month); count accurately; add - subtract - multiply - divide and to record - balance - and check results for accuracy; compute - analyze - and interpret numerical data for reporting purposes and understand and follow basic instructions and guidelines. Duties: Practice at an advanced practice level in the Specialty Mental Health Clinic setting - functioning as a member of a multi-disciplinary team providing comprehensive case management - psychotherapy - and other mental health services; Complete full biopsychosocial assessments for clients entering care and establish treatment plans in collaboration with the client - their family - and the treatment team; Assess and treat the complicated psychosocial problems of Veterans with a wide range of mental health diagnoses and conditions; Develop treatment plans in collaboration with the Veteran/family and with the interdisciplinary treatment team; Participate in scheduling - triaging - and monitoring the flow of patients in the MHC and assisting with admissions of MHC patients to inpatient psychiatry unit when indicated; Independently work with patients and families who are experiencing a variety of psychiatric - medical and social problems utilizing individual - group and family counseling and therapy skills; Contribute to interdisciplinary care planning conferences - BHIP huddles and Team Meetings; Adhere to Trauma Informed Care principles assuming the existence of a trauma history along with resilience; Interface with other departments and provide consultation services to medical center and CBOC staff on a wide variety of patient care issues - particularly related to identifying mental health concerns and social determinant needs of Veterans from all areas of service. Work Schedule: Monday through Friday - 8:00 a.m to 4:30 p.m; Telework: Available at the agency discretion; Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 93650-0; Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized; Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized. These are minor metadata; we can drop or include in a short p. We must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. Not present. Now produce HTML. We'll have sections:

  About the role

  ... summary ...

  Qualifications

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      Basic Requirements:

      • United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy
      • English Language Proficiency: In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d) - no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English
      • Education: Master's or doctoral degree in one of the following: 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