Behavioral Health Counselor

Staff Development

• Serves as a full member of the HJAHC clinical staff team. Participates fully in Behavioral Health departmental meetings and other agency meetings as warranted. Participates in professional and related meetings, conferences, and continuing education training as available; prepares reports as requested. Keeps appraised of developing areas of behavioral health and provides colleagues with updates as appropriate. Assists in behavioral health departmental tasks, including programmatic and infrastructure design, implementation, and evaluation. Learns and implements various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the Center or its related units. Assists with onboarding of new staff as supervising university interns as requested.
• Additional
• RESPONSIBILITIES: Performs other duties and assumes other responsibilities as apparent and/or as assigned by the Director of Behavioral Health. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice. Defines and maintains the standards of social work practice within the Center based on all dictates of the National Association of Social Worker’s Code of Ethics and the Social Workers Licensing Act of 1991 (N.J.S.A. 45:15BB-1 et seq.) and amendments thereto and with all the rules of the New Jersey State Board of Social Work Examiner

Requirements

Education & experience: Master’s Degree in Social Work or PhD in Clinical Psychology required

Licensure and/Or certifications

Licensed in the State of New Jersey as a Licensed Social Worker (LSW) required Licensed in the State of New Jersey as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC) and Licensed Addiction Counselors (LAC) can also be considered for this position.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES AND OTHER (KSAO’s) Computer Skills

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Word Processing software. Excellent working knowledge of behavioral medicine and evidence-based treatments for medical and mental health conditions. Ability to work through brief patient contacts as well as to make quick and accurate clinical assessments of mental and behavioral conditions. Should be comfortable with the pace of primary care, working with an interdisciplinary team, and have strong communication skills. Good knowledge of psycho-pharmacology. Ability to design and implement clinical pathways and protocols for treatment of selected chronic conditions.

Physical & work requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This position requires the manual dexterity sufficient to operate phones, computers and other office equipment.
• The position requires the physical ability to kneel, bend, and perform light lifting.
• This person must have the ability to write and speak clearly using the English language to convey information and be able to hear at normal speaking levels both in person and over the telephone.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Generally, the working conditions are good with little or no exposure to extremes in health, safety hazards and/or hazardous materials.

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