Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor - HUDVASH

About the role

This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP) - a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment.

Responsibilities

• Provide VA case management services, designed to improve Veteran's health and mental health, enhancing their ability to remain stable, housed, and community integrated.
• Responsible for direct linkages between the Veteran and the local housing authority and is responsible for direct referrals for Housing Choice Vouchers as it pertains to the HUD-VASH program.
• Works closely with the VA Medical Center's homeless programs, residential and community care programs, and transitional living facilities to ensure that coordination between these entities is facilitated and Veteran's direct care, referral, and follow-up is contiguous and based on a continuum of services.
• Independently provides clinical psychosocial and case management services at an advanced practice level for eligible Veterans and their family members in the program.
• Provides supportive treatment through a well-defined program which includes clinical assessment, supportive therapeutic supervision, clinical case management, medical consultation, bio-psychosocial treatment and rehabilitation, supportive group and or milieu therapy, psycho-education services, occasional vocational counseling and rehabilitation, substance abuse counseling, and socialization within an outreach treatment format.
• Extensively coordinates among a wide variety of staff and treatment components to ensure its success, as networking in the community with landlords, housing programs, the local Public Housing Authority, and other housing specialists and case managers to identify housing resources and to maintain and update lists of housing opportunities.
• The incumbent may provide psychotherapy as appropriate.
• Makes routine visits, based upon acuity, to each Veteran in residence to assess their environment and provide on-going clinical services.
• Is a requirement that the HUD-VASH case manager be approved by the local VAMC to drive the government vehicles, following all VA guidelines required to transport Veterans.

Requirements

None specified in the provided job posting.

Qualifications

• Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship, English Language Proficiency, Education, Licensure/Certification.
• 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 Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP).
• Licensure/Certification: Must hold a full - current - and unrestricted license to independently practice as a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor - which includes diagnosis and treatment.

Skills

• Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities (KSAs) as outlined in the Qualifications section.

Benefits

• None specified in the provided job posting.

Pay

• Not specified in the provided job posting.

Schedule

• Full-Time - Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm.