Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor - PCMHI
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About the role: summary paragraph.
Responsibilities: duties description. Could break into bullet list.
Requirements: basic requirements (citizenship, education, licensure, grandfathering). Might also include grade determinations? But those are part of qualifications. We'll separate.
Qualifications: maybe include grade determinations, experience, KSAs, preferred experience. But we also have Skills section for KSAs. The instruction: Use sections for Skills. So we can put KSAs under Skills. Qualifications could include education, licensure, citizenship, experience requirements. But we already have Requirements for basic req. Might be overlapping. Let's think: The posting has "Qualifications" heading with subparts: Applicants pending... Basic Requirements, Grade Determinations, Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities, Preferred Experience. So we could map:
- Requirements section: Basic Requirements (citizenship, education, licensure, grandfathering)
- Qualifications section: Grade Determinations (experience, education, licensure) maybe but that's overlapping. Could combine Requirements and Qualifications? But we need to follow instruction: include a section only when posting has real specific content for it. We can have both Requirements and Qualifications if they have distinct content.
Better: Requirements = Basic Requirements (citizenship, education, licensure, grandfathering). Qualifications = Grade Determinations (experience, education, licensure) plus Preferred Experience. Skills = Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities (KSAs). Benefits = Relocation/Recruitment Incentives. Schedule = Work Schedule.
We must not repeat info. Ensure we capture all.
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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
- 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)
- 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
- 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 (KSAs):
- 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
Preferred Experience: Integrated/interdisciplinary work experience - Veteran specific experience - EBPs - brief psychotherapy provisioning experience - and familiarity with medical outpatient operations
Reference link: https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/
Physical Requirements: Physical demands of the work are generally minor - as the position requires sitting - standing and walking
- A high level of self-awareness is essential
- Work - divided between office and clinical settings - is primarily sedentary
- May require prolonged standing - moderate walking - and manual dexterity
- Requires carrying light items - such as books - files - or laptop computer.
Duties: The Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) licensed professional mental health counselor (LPMHC) provides functional assessment - triage - brief intervention - education - and consultative services upon referral from primary care providers and allied Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) members
The Senior LPMHC uses population-based practice management strategies and maintains competences in the following core domains:
- Conducts brief - focused functional assessments (e.g. - 30 minutes or less) to assess substance use concerns and triage/refer to specialty care as appropriate
- Applies principals of population-based care (defines role and identifies problems rapidly)
- Uses brief measurement-based care assessments routinely (e.g. - BAM-IOP - PHQ-9 - PCL-5 - AUDIT C etc.)
- Bases initial consultation appointments on the PCMHI Functional Assessment model and develops recovery-oriented treatment goals based on functional outcomes
- Maintains daily same day access slots
- Regularly reviews schedule/grid and works to maintain next available "scheduled" appointment within two weeks
- Provides brief - time-limited - evidence based mental and behavioral health interventions (e.g. - 1-6 sessions) in both individual and group therapy formats
- Incumbent will be based at the Montrose CBOC and will provide virtual appointments in the other CBOC's
Academic/Teaching/Training:
- Supports activities of training programs and participates in relevant education seminars
- When opportunities are available and it is deemed clinically appropriate - participates in improvement of clinical supervision skills
- When opportunities are available and it is deemed clinically appropriate - provides training and guidance to other behavioral health staff in primary care setting
Engages in thoughtful level-of-care decision-making and triages appropriately and efficiently to specialty mental health services
Work Schedule: Monday - Friday - 8am - 4:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position
Functional Statement #: 60907-0 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
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About the role
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Responsibilities
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About the role paragraph: combine summary sentences.
"The position is a senior licensed professional mental health counselor (LPMHC) appointment within the Mental Health Service of the VA Western Colorado Health Care System (VA WCHCS). The incumbent is assigned to the Mental Health Service line in General Mental Health, administratively within the Mental Health (MH) Service Line with primary assignment to the Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) team."
That's fine.
Responsibilities: list items:
- Provides functional assessment, triage, brief intervention, education, and consultative services upon referral from primary care providers and allied Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) members.
- Uses population-based practice management strategies and maintains competences in core domains:
- Conducts brief, focused functional assessments (e.g., 30 minutes or less) to assess substance use concerns and triage/refer to specialty care as appropriate.
- Applies principles of population-based care (defines role and identifies problems rapidly).
- Uses brief measurement-based care assessments routinely (e.g., BAM-IOP, PHQ-9, PCL-5, AUDIT C, etc.).
- Bases initial consultation appointments on the PCMHI Functional Assessment model and develops recovery-oriented treatment goals based on functional outcomes.
- Maintains daily same‑day access slots.
- Regularly reviews schedule/grid and works to maintain next available “scheduled” appointment within two weeks.
- Provides brief, time‑limited, evidence‑based mental and behavioral health interventions (1‑6 sessions) in individual and group therapy formats.
- Incumbent will be based at the Montrose CBOC and will provide virtual appointments in the other CBOCs.
- Supports training program activities and participates in relevant education seminars.
- When opportunities are available and clinically appropriate, participates in improvement of clinical supervision skills.
- When opportunities are available and clinically appropriate, provides training and guidance to other behavioral health staff in primary care settings.
- Engages in thoughtful level‑of‑care decision‑making and triages appropriately and efficiently to specialty mental health services.
We could flatten but okay.
Requirements section: Basic Requirements.
for prose. We must not repeat job title as heading. So headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Schedule. We need to preserve all substantive info. Let's extract. About the role: summary paragraph. Responsibilities: duties description. Could break into bullet list. Requirements: basic requirements (citizenship, education, licensure, grandfathering). Might also include grade determinations? But those are part of qualifications. We'll separate. Qualifications: maybe include grade determinations, experience, KSAs, preferred experience. But we also have Skills section for KSAs. The instruction: Use sections for Skills. So we can put KSAs under Skills. Qualifications could include education, licensure, citizenship, experience requirements. But we already have Requirements for basic req. Might be overlapping. Let's think: The posting has "Qualifications" heading with subparts: Applicants pending... Basic Requirements, Grade Determinations, Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities, Preferred Experience. So we could map: - Requirements section: Basic Requirements (citizenship, education, licensure, grandfathering) - Qualifications section: Grade Determinations (experience, education, licensure) maybe but that's overlapping. Could combine Requirements and Qualifications? But we need to follow instruction: include a section only when posting has real specific content for it. We can have both Requirements and Qualifications if they have distinct content. Better: Requirements = Basic Requirements (citizenship, education, licensure, grandfathering). Qualifications = Grade Determinations (experience, education, licensure) plus Preferred Experience. Skills = Demonstrated Knowledge - Skills - and Abilities (KSAs). Benefits = Relocation/Recruitment Incentives. Schedule = Work Schedule. We must not repeat info. Ensure we capture all. Let's extract details. 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 - 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) - 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 - 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 (KSAs): - 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 Preferred Experience: Integrated/interdisciplinary work experience - Veteran specific experience - EBPs - brief psychotherapy provisioning experience - and familiarity with medical outpatient operations Reference link: https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/ Physical Requirements: Physical demands of the work are generally minor - as the position requires sitting - standing and walking - A high level of self-awareness is essential - Work - divided between office and clinical settings - is primarily sedentary - May require prolonged standing - moderate walking - and manual dexterity - Requires carrying light items - such as books - files - or laptop computer. Duties: The Primary Care Mental Health Integration (PCMHI) licensed professional mental health counselor (LPMHC) provides functional assessment - triage - brief intervention - education - and consultative services upon referral from primary care providers and allied Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) members The Senior LPMHC uses population-based practice management strategies and maintains competences in the following core domains: - Conducts brief - focused functional assessments (e.g. - 30 minutes or less) to assess substance use concerns and triage/refer to specialty care as appropriate - Applies principals of population-based care (defines role and identifies problems rapidly) - Uses brief measurement-based care assessments routinely (e.g. - BAM-IOP - PHQ-9 - PCL-5 - AUDIT C etc.) - Bases initial consultation appointments on the PCMHI Functional Assessment model and develops recovery-oriented treatment goals based on functional outcomes - Maintains daily same day access slots - Regularly reviews schedule/grid and works to maintain next available "scheduled" appointment within two weeks - Provides brief - time-limited - evidence based mental and behavioral health interventions (e.g. - 1-6 sessions) in both individual and group therapy formats - Incumbent will be based at the Montrose CBOC and will provide virtual appointments in the other CBOC's Academic/Teaching/Training: - Supports activities of training programs and participates in relevant education seminars - When opportunities are available and it is deemed clinically appropriate - participates in improvement of clinical supervision skills - When opportunities are available and it is deemed clinically appropriate - provides training and guidance to other behavioral health staff in primary care setting Engages in thoughtful level-of-care decision-making and triages appropriately and efficiently to specialty mental health services Work Schedule: Monday - Friday - 8am - 4:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position Functional Statement #: 60907-0 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized We need to output HTML fragment only. We'll create sections:
About the role
... summary ...
Responsibilities
- ... each duty as list items ...