Behavioral Health Counselor

Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Provide clinical services/assessment services within Outpatient, Crisis or Residential facility.
• Ability to provide clinical interactions which reflect competency, demonstrate clinical judgments which are appropriate to client’s functioning and agency’s risk tolerance standards.
• Deliver accurate, substantive and timely documentation which meets best practice guidelines and regulatory standards. 
• Integrate all relevant referral information into the assessment process, and acquire additional collateral information as needed.
• Collaborate with the program manager to determine and designate site and supervision protocols, and assess and determine client level of care changes (decisions related to admission, transfer/discharge, and step-up).
• Provide a minimum of 25 hours of billable services based on a 40-hour work week.

Qualifications: 

• A Masters degree in counseling or social work is required, along with active independent licensure in the state of Ohio (LPCC or LISW), with a minimum of two years of relevant professional experience preferred.

• Basic computer literacy to include experience in the use of word processing (ex. Microsoft Word); Previous experience with electronic health records is preferred.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER 

EOE-MF/H including persons with disabilities and veterans