Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor

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Job duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provides psychodiagnostic assessment and diagnoses mental disorders, particularly for complex or unusually difficult patients many of whom have psychiatric and medical problems.
• Provides education to patients, family members, and significant others.
• Provides comprehensive evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions, including individual, family, and group psychotherapy, including by telemental health.
• May provide clinical supervision to LPMHC or counseling trainees in areas related to behavioral health and social services provision to attain goals and objectives of recovery programs.
• Provides consultation to professional staff within VA San Diego Healthcare System and to community providers, concerning clinical assessment findings and appropriate treatment plans for patients.
• Develops, implements, and documents the psychotherapeutic treatment plan for an assigned caseload of patients, including prompt completion of clinical reminders.
• Interviews Veterans and their family members/significant others to establish facts about the Veteran's situation, presenting problems and their causes, and the impact of such problems on the veteran's functioning and health as part of a comprehensive psychiatric assessment.
• Reviews all data, subjective and objective, and makes a clinical assessment, identifying needs and strengths.
• Facilitates liaisons with other medical center programs in order to effectively coordinate services.
• Complies with national and local performance measures, including timely health care screening and completion of clinical reminders for all patients.
• Attends and participates in administrative and informational meetings held by the Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health, Chief of Psychology, Section Chief(s), and other meetings as assigned to participate.
• May provide clinical supervision and instruction for counseling trainees.

Work Schedule: 0700 - 1730 (tour is flexible between timeframe)

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 000000

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized.