Licensed Counselor (Bilingual preferred)
Overview
Our vision is to continue to be a mission driven non-profit ministry, providing high quality comprehensive care to the poor. We desire CHC to be an active partner with other health professionals, community service providers, Christian ministries and churches, to accomplish our common missions of caring for the poor and sharing the love and mercy of Jesus Christ. We hope to be a catalyst in uniting the Body of Christ to be the hands and feet of Jesus together, regardless of differences in denomination, skin color, cultural background, and socio-economic status.
Mission & Passions
Our clinic is a non-profit organization that seeks to serve those who cannot afford medical care with quality health care in the name of Jesus Christ. We strive to minister to the whole person-body, mind, and spirit-in order for healing to come about in all three.
Job Info
Job Title - Licensed Counselor
Reports to: Executive Director
Job Description
Summary
The CHC mission is to provide high quality healthcare to those who cannot afford it- ministering to body, mind, and spirit. We believe the body, mind, and spirit are intimately connected and injury in any area will affect the others. Consequently, addressing the mental health and emotional welfare of patients is essential to facilitate healing and wholeness.
The counselor’s role is to evaluate and treat patients with mental health disorders or emotional distress through individual and group sessions. The counselor works with other members of the Behavioral Health Team (Social worker, psychiatry partners) alongside the primary care team in an Integrated Behavioral Health Model. The counselor receives internal referrals from CHC providers and BH team members, and collaborates with the entire team to provide the most successful holistic treatment plan for each patient.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
1) Counseling Sessions
Meet with patients to determine the exact nature of their mental health concerns
Provide targeting counseling designed to help the individual overcome their problems
Assist individuals with implementing behavior modification strategies and coping skills
Remain knowledgeable of the latest evidenced based methodologies in counseling to provide patients with the best possible care
Refer patients to other mental healthcare providers as necessary
Remain warm and engaged through the duration of every patient’s counseling session
Appropriate documentation and billing in Electronic Health Record
2) Team Based Care
Works with the Social Worker to provide crisis management counseling and facilitating in-patient or residential admission for patients who are a harm to themselves or others.
Collaborates and coordinates care with social worker, psychiatry (when applicable), and the primary care team.
Participates in staff morning huddle, weekly staff meetings and training sessions, and leadership meetings as needed.
3) Administrative Responsibilities
Completes charting and billing in a timely manner
Provides supervision for FCHC Social Worker
Assists in writing behavioral health related policies and procedures
Provides behavioral health related staff training
Job Qualifications Education, Skills, and Experience
Master’s degree in counseling or a related field
All state (VA)-mandated licenses required for practice as a clinical counselor
Knowledge of evidenced based counseling methods (such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Family Therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, etc.)
Excellent communication skills
Ability to get clients to open up to you (Humble, compassionate, kind)
Ability to deliver treatment that is customized to meet the unique needs of every patient
Ability to incorporate spirituality into counseling sessions as appropriate/desired
Willingness to refer patients to other healthcare providers as needed; works well with team of social worker, psychiatry, and primary care
Ability to read, write, and communicate effectively with clients and staff of different cultural backgrounds.
Bilingual preferred.
Must be able to work with individuals with physical or mental challenges
Identifies as a local Christian missionary and passionate about being part of a Christian ministry
