Family Practice Associates was founded by Dr. Jeffrey Foxx in 1983 and has grown to one of the largest family practice groups in Central Kentucky. Today FPA is a group of primary care providers who are dedicated to giving family-centered care from birth to later years. FPA has over 25 primary providers including: physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physical therapists, and a marriage and family therapist. With a professionally trained staff of CMA’s, receptionists, lab techs and others, FPA provides award winning care that has been recognized as a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) through the National Commission on Quality Assurance. FPA works diligently to offer Central Kentucky families enhanced access to medical care at its Hamburg & Brannon Crossing locations as well as online at www.fpalex.com.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Knowledge of health and social issues impacting diverse clients and their well-being.
• 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,

• 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