BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES  - LPC/LMFT/LCSW

 

Provide individual direct care  to clients ranging from ages 6 to 99 years of age.

General Responsibilities:

• Provides direct counseling services to clients and families - Psychotherapy, Community Psychiatric Support Treatment (CPST) and PSR services to clients.

• Attends necessary training's and conferences to maintain licensure.

• Provide crisis intervention sessions to clients if needed
  
• Maintains accurate and timely records, including clinical progress notes, according to HCO’s facility policy.

• Provides positive customer relations in dealing with patients, families, physicians, members of the healthcare team, referral sources, service agencies and others.
  
• Ensures high-quality services are being provided to all clients served
  

Job Qualifications:

• Valid Louisiana clinical license (Licensed Clinical Social Worker: LCSW, Licensed Professional Counselor: LPC, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist: LMFT
• Excellent assertive communication skills.
• A sound leader who possesses excellent communication and interpersonal skills to foster cooperation across departmental lines and manage information, environmental and fiscal resources to accomplish goals.
• Good writing and composition skills.
• Able to organize and prioritize high volume workload.
• Able to function with minimal supervision.
• Therapeutic Intervention De-escalation Education required.
• Ability to maintain overall good work attitude and interact cooperatively and professionally with other staff members.
• Basic competency in age/disability/cultural diversity needs of patients served and ability to relate to patients in a manner sensitive to those needs.

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