Mental Health Counselor

Summary

CHENEGA PRO FEDERAL SOLUTIONS, LLC

Norfolk, VA

The Mental Health Counselor will provide services required to adequately support the Limited Duty and Active Duty Sailors assigned to MARMC.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a level of productivity comparable with that of other individuals performing similar services.
• Participate in peer review and performance improvement activities.
• Function with awareness and application of safety procedures.
• Perform efficiently in emergency patient situations following established protocols, remaining calm, informing appropriate persons, and documenting events. Anticipate potential problems/emergencies and make appropriate interventions.
• Notify supervisor, director, or other designated person regarding problems that the contract worker is unable to manage.
• Apply an awareness of legal issues in all aspects of patient care and strive to manage situations in a reduced-risk manner.
• Exercise awareness and sensitivity to patient/significant others' rights, as identified within the Command and Military Readiness Division.
• Maintain an awareness of responsibility and accountability for own professional practice.
• Participate in continuing education to meet own professional growth and licensure requirements. The government will not be responsible for funding these continuing education expenses.
• Attend and participate in various meetings when requested.
• Support social well-being, advice, and counseling to Limited Duty and Active-Duty clients in order to improve emotional, social, family, education, and/or employment situations.
• Interview Limited Duty and Active-Duty clients and coordinate plans, programs, and activities to meet their social and emotional needs; provide solution-based counseling on a variety of subjects including family issues, relationships, emotional concerns, and social well-being (including employment or education); and evaluates and recommends other forms of clinical or non-clinical psychiatric treatment and counseling if necessary.
• Responsible for counseling, Limited Duty and Active-Duty military patients who have been struggling with mental, behavioral, and emotional health problems. This starts with identifying the exact nature of the patient’s issues.
• Create personalized strategies that help the individual work towards their desired mental healthcare outcomes.
• Meet with Limited Duty and Active-Duty patients to determine the exact nature of their mental health concerns.
• Provide targeted counseling designed to help the individual overcome their problems.
• Remain knowledgeable of the latest methodologies in counseling to provide Limited Duty and Active-Duty patients with the best possible care.
• Refer Limited Duty and Active-Duty patients to resources available to Sailors to address concerns.
• Remain warm and engaged through the duration of every patient’s counseling session.
• Conduct or assist in treatment and rehabilitation of Limited Duty and Active-Duty patients. Perform initial basic assessment procedures including standardized psychological screening, clinical interviewing, mental status examinations, substance abuse evaluations, and psychological assessment.
• Within the scope of clinical privileges, identify potential mental health diagnoses, and provide patient education.
• Conduct or assist in conducting group and individual counseling, therapeutic community, and other related milieu activities.
• Institute precautionary measures to prevent patient injury, interpersonal violence or suicide.
• Explain mental health services to patients or others.
• Prepare and maintain non-identifying records and reports pertaining to daily volume of military personnel seen.
• Provide crisis assessment and safety planning.
• Assist with the development, coordination, and implementation of health awareness campaigns for MARMC. Areas of emphasis may include national monthly themes such as suicide prevention, alcohol awareness, sexual assault prevention, depression, exercise, nutrition, and tobacco cessation.
• Actively participate in the command’s Human Factors Council. Participate in meetings to review and evaluate the care provided to patients, identify opportunities to improve the care delivered, and recommend corrective action when problems exist.
• Shall be in an on-call status after working hours.
• Other duties as assigned
  
  
  

Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited institution with an MSW or master’s degree in a counseling field.
• Current Virginia State Licensure or Certification in one of the following:
• Licensed Professional Counselor
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• Active Secret Clearance Preferred
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Ability to obtain a Secret Clearance.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English to perform the work.
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to get clients to open up to you.
• Ability to deliver treatment that is customized to meet the unique needs of every patient.
• Willingness to refer patients to other healthcare providers as needed.
• Interpersonal skills necessary to engender the patients' trust that allows the LPC or LCSW to address and resolve the patient’s most intimate mental health concerns.
  
  
  

Physical Demands (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.)

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands and/or fingers. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
  
  
  

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