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Responsibilities:

• Provides clinical therapeutic services (i.e., engages, interviews, assesses, counsels, and educates) to veterans
• Provides individual and group therapy to clients using evidence-based therapies, practices and protocols.
• Establishes and maintains a professional therapeutic relationship with all clients and potential clients.
• Develops initial and ongoing client treatment plans.
• Provides direct clinical intervention services and crisis intervention services to clients in need.
• Maintains confidential and complete client records to include electronic records management.
• Transitions clients from the therapeutic relationship using clinically-based protocols.
• Coordinates and collaborates client services with the VA and other community clinicians as appropriate.
• Oversees curricula for all Clinical Treatment modality groups (substance abuse and mental health).
• Follows proper clinical protocols on client referrals for needed services.
• In conjunction with the Clinical Director is responsible for implementing and maintaining a therapeutic living environment at the site.
• Ensures adherence to clinically-based protocols.
• Maintains office hours that are conducive to client needs, and an office environment that is conducive to therapeutic effectiveness.
• Ensures programmatic compliance with all State licensure requirements.
• Ensures that all services are provided per grant requirements.
• Performs other duties as required.

Ideal candidate must have a thorough understanding of:

• Mental health counseling principles, practices, and applications to include military cultural competency (e.g., PTSD, depression, anxiety, and substance abuse)
• Psychosocial assessment modalities, principles, and practices
• Networking, partnership building, outreach, and public speaking
• Crisis intervention and disruptive behavior management (e.g., responding to threats of self-harm or hostility toward others)
• Educational and vocational counseling principles, practices, and applications (e.g., employability and employment stability)
• File documentation practices and electronic records management
• Community resources
• Federal regulations and policies (e.g., HIPAA, Privacy Acts, and professional ethics)
• Maintains professional standards and demeanor, including the confidentiality of client data and other sensitive information.