Licensed Professional Counselor - LCSW / LMFT / LPCC (Full-time)

Overview

Responsibilities

• The Licensed Professional Counselor (LCSW / LMFT / LPCC) would be responsible for providing professional counseling and treatment services to patients and families including direct counseling and treatment modalities, services, crisis intervention, and coordination of community services/resources. Duties include, but are not limited to:
• Conducts comprehensive, culturally sensitive psychosocial assessments, develops care plans, and provides counseling and crisis intervention services to individuals and families.
• Coordinates services with appropriate clinic and community resources.
• Provides information and education about health/mental health issues to individual patients and to groups.
• Documents assessment, intervention, and treatment data in medical record.
• Any other tasks deemed appropriate and assigned by FPA

• Specific Requirements
• Master’s or Doctoral degree in counseling or a counseling related field from an accredited college or university
• Must be currently licensed to practice counseling services in state of Kentucky.
• Minimum two-three years of experience in providing counseling services and broad background with diverse patient populations, preferably in medical office setting
• Knowledge of professional counseling principles, methodology, and ethics and of human psychosocial development within the family, community, and culture.
• Knowledge of the use of therapeutic relationship to foster patient involvement. Familiarity with brief therapy theories/techniques and therapeutic process. Understanding of techniques for facilitating client motivation to change behavior.
• Training and experience with EMDR/ART, emotionally focused couples therapy, Family systems therapy, and/or bariatric psychological assessments is preferred.
• Familiarity with patients experiencing medical complexity is preferred.
• Ability to address concerns through talk-therapy and by modeling adaptive, sustainable behaviors.
• Promote constructive self-reflection, helpful coping techniques, and nurturing relationships.
• Monitor perceptions about and adherence to suggested treatment
• Skill in crisis intervention
• Skill in client advocacy
• Skill in case management
• Ability to interact effectively as member of interdisciplinary health care team.
• Ability to identify and utilize community resources.
• Ability to effectively communicate, appropriately, and with diverse patient population.
• Ability to be empathetic, sensitive, and driven to foster healing.
• Ability to establish and maintain positive, professional relationships with all peers, management and patients
• Physical/Mental demands: Ability to sit, stand up and walk frequently; use hands and fingers to conduct various computer work; lift and/or move loads up to 10 pounds; must possess hearing and speech to communicate in person and over the phone, able to focus in an environment with many distractions,

• Occasional stress in balancing multiple demands and in dealing with patients/families experiencing tension.
• Communication: Good communication skills (written and oral)
• Computer literacy: Fine motor skills necessary to operate the computer
• Knowledge of Electronic Health Record preferred

FPA is an Equal Opportunity Employer with competitive pay and full-time benefits including but not limited to:

Health, Vision, Dental and Cafeteria plans

Short/Long Term Disability, Accidental and Life Insurance

401K with 4% Company Match

PTO Accrual & Holiday Pay

Uniform Allowance: Continuing Education reimbursement

Free Parking