Mental Health Counselor Bachelors - Psychology

CHS has been committed to growing and evolving to provide the right services and solutions to address the needs of children and families throughout the changing times. Every day, our team works with parents and kids to empower them and encourage them. With innovative technology solutions and a dedicated, experienced team throughout the state, we’re changing the face of foster care and positively impacting children and families’ lives for generations to come.

Join our team to continue to do good and create history serving Florida's children and families!

The Clinical Counselor provides behavioral health assessment and counseling information and services to individuals and families with the goal to promote recovery and overall wellbeing. and assists and counsels individuals and families by delineating alternatives, helping to articulate goals and providing needed information and treatment services. Overall, the Clinical Counselor contributes to the CHS high performance culture by exhibiting our values and providing quality results that position CHS as the leader in delivering proactive solutions for children and families.

Make an impact in your community and become a part of Florida's history !

Growth and professional development opportunities

Opportunity to make a positive difference in children and families within your own community!

Provide behavioral health assessment and counseling information and services to individuals and families with the goal to promote recovery and overall wellbeing in a CHS office/facility, client home or school community setting.

Provide supportive clinical counseling services, such as individual, group and family therapy, including TBOS, Outpatient or BHOS, as necessary.

Trauma-Focused Care, Infant Mental Health).

Complete billable units and enter applicable data into the Client Information System (CIS) and other data systems in a timely manner as required by the program and/or contract requirements.

Facilitate psycho-educational classes and/or groups such as parenting skills, independent living skills, anger management, behavior management, substance abuse, MAPP/Pride training, etc.

Provide in-depth clinical assessment, diagnosis of clinical conditions, treatment plans and intervention under the supervision of a licensed clinician, including one of the following: Participate in peer review process to oversee that services provided comply with contract, Medicaid and licensing requirements, COA, and internal quality assurance standards.

Review and monitor billing for clinical services.

Participate actively in departmental meetings, training and education, as well as the quality process.

Comply with CHS’s code of conduct, policies, procedures and other obligations.

Assist with training other team members and providing back up when necessary.

Pick up projects on the fly; Demonstrate the CHS Common Bond values in the performance of all job duties.

MA/MS from an accredited university/college in Social Work, Psychology, Marriage & Family Therapy or Mental Health Counseling – OR –MA/MS from an accredited university/college with a major in the field of Nursing, Rehabilitation, Special Education, Health Education or a related human services field AND have completed graduate level coursework in at least 4 of the following 13 content areas: human growth and development, diagnosis and treatment of psychopathology, human sexuality, counseling theories and techniques, group theories and practice, dynamics of marriage and family systems, individual evaluation and assessment, career and lifestyle assessment; research and program evaluation, personality theories, social and cultural foundations, counseling in the community settings, and substance use disorders.

For the Early Learning Centers Support Team: A non-licensed candidate shall be a registered intern working towards licensure to be considered.

Two years of post-Bachelors experience working with at-risk children and families or one year post-Masters experience.

Two years of experience providing services to persons with behavioral health disorders and/or the ability to be supervised by a licensed practitioner of the healing arts (LPHA).

Three years of experience dealing with emotionally disturbed children/adolescents, preferred.

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

Planning, organization and time management, oral & written communication

Interpersonal Relationship Building, Collaboration, Teaming

Computer systems and MS Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook

Perform at a high level of autonomy, with general supervision.

Meet critical deadlines, while maintaining attention to detail, accuracy and quality.

Solve practical problems and document results using sound judgment.

Interact effectively with children/families from diverse backgrounds

Identify and understand environmental stressors

Recognize importance of social, economic, environmental factors in the development and resolution of personal/family problems

Commit to providing high customer satisfaction with positive service delivery results.

Be energetic, passionate and adaptable with a deep commitment to social service, empathy for children and families and a positive approach to embracing and managing change.

All applicants are subject to background screening through the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA). Travel Required Yes .