Mental Health Counselor

THE MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR POSITION IS ALSO KNOWN AS OTHER LICENSED PRACTIONER.

AT THE PRESENT TIME, THIS POSITION IS OFFERING A $5,000 SIGN-ON BONUS TO NYS LCSW HIRES AND $2,500 FOR OTHER NYS SOCIAL WORK RELATED FIELD NY STATE LICENSED PROFESSIONALS.

SALARY RANGE $75,000-$85,000.

The Mental Health Professional is a Non-Physician Licensed Behavioral Health Practitioner (OLP) able to practice independently, who must perform services within the practitioner’s scope of practice. The services provided are expected to more effectively engage children, youth and families/caregivers who may have difficulty engaging in traditional clinic-based settings. The clinical services provided are intended to help prevent the progression of behavioral health needs through early identification and intervention and may be provided to children/youth in need of assessment for whom behavioral health conditions have not yet been diagnosed, including but not limited to children ages 0-5.

• Be a vital member within an interdisciplinary team.
• Responsibility will include providing a mental health diagnosis for child/youth
• Provide services with the intension to treat, correct, or ameliorate a delay or problem in developmental functioning and healthy relationships for children/youth.
• Ensure that service delivery is in a trauma informed, culturally and linguistically competent manner.
• Conduct comprehensive clinical assessments to diagnose, and/or determine medical necessity and develop a treatment plan with the child/family to restore functioning and/or ameliorate behavioral health symptoms.
• Have a strong understanding of medically necessity to incorporate service needs, in the treatment plan such as the rehabilitative State Plans, beyond those provided by the OLP, effectively address the needs of the child/family.
• Conduct a Licensed Evaluation (Comprehensive Assessment) to identify a child/youth individual’s behavioral strengths and weaknesses, problems and service needs,
• Responsibility includes the identification of services and practices medically necessary to meet the child/youth’s behavioral health needs, which may include other children and family treatment and support services (CFTSS)
• Provide a treatment plan which will describe the child/youth’s condition and services needed for the current episode of care, detailing the scope/practices to be provided, expected outcome, and expected frequency and duration of the treatment for each provider.
• Provide Psychotherapy (Counseling) utilizing therapeutic communication and interaction for alleviating symptoms or functional limitations associated with a child/youths diagnosed behavioral health disorder,
• Provide counseling to reverse or changing maladaptive patterns of behavior, encouraging personal growth and development, and supporting the child/youth’s capacity to achieve age–appropriate developmental milestones.
• Responsible for Crisis Intervention Activities if the child-youth experiences psychiatric, behavioral or situational distress in which the OLP NP-LBHP will be contacted as the treatment provider, to provide the necessary interventions in crisis circumstances, such as crisis triage by phone, crisis off site in person, or crisis complex care follow up.
• Maintain professional cross collaboration with various departments within the agency; and make relative contacts with important referral sources within the community.

  NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES  

·      Perform other duties as assigned.

• Ability to interact with and complete assignments in a manner sensitive to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics
• Communicate effectively
• Ability to understand and use Micro-soft word and Excel
• Ability to interact with community resources

Other Licensed Behavioral Health Professional include the following NYS license:

• Licensed Psychoanalysts

• Licensed Clinical Social Workers

• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists

• Licensed Mental Health Counselors

• Licensed Masters Social Workers when under the supervision of licensed clinical social workers (LCSWs),

or Licensed psychologists.

Minimum three (3) years’ experience working with children in foster care and/ or mental health. A valid, non-restricted driver license is required for this position.

To apply, please follow the link below, or visit the Agency's website: https://www.sdfs.org/

https://www.vs4.vscyberhosting.com/sdomhome/Careers.aspx?req=C01-597-101-389-2&type=JOBDESCR