Mental Health and Wellness Counselor

General Responsibilities Summary

Provides mental health services, advisement, and training to North Little Rock Police personnel by performing the following duties.

Essential Functions

Other related duties may be assigned. Regular attendance is an essential function of this position.

Victim/Community Services: Provides crisis intervention to crime victims as directed by the Health and Wellness Coordinator. Assists with developing programs aimed at addressing and improving mental health issues/concerns in the community that are related to law enforcement activities in their neighborhood.



Critical Incidents: Administers/participates in the critical incident stress management program for the department. Assists with debriefing activities in connection with critical incidents, both in a scheduled format and in emergency situations. Assists the Crisis Negotiations team during barricaded subject and hostage situations. Provides individual and group counseling sessions to department personnel when requested. Maintains a record of work activities and provides reports as directed.

Training/Advisement: Advises the Training Unit and Special Operations Teams in matters related to mental health. Assists with monthly training sessions to the Crisis Intervention Team. Assists the training unit commander regarding the Health and Wellness Peer Support Program; provides related training as requested.

Minimum Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

BA/BS from an accredited university or college in Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, or a related field and six (6) months related experience involving law enforcement crisis counseling, crisis / hostage negotiations, critical incident stress debriefing. MA/MS is preferred. State Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training (CLEST) Instructor certification is preferred.

A valid class D driver's license and a good driving record is required.

Application Requirements

The complexity, guidelines, supervisory controls, and supervision responsibilities described below are representative of this position.

SUPERVISORY CONTROLS:
The supervisor makes assignments by defining objectives, priorities, and deadlines; and assists employee with unusual situations that do not have clear precedents. The employee plans and carries out the successive steps and handles problems and deviations in the work assignment in accordance with instructions, policies, previous training, or accepted practices in the occupation. Completed work is usually evaluated for technical soundness, appropriateness, and conformity to policy and requirements. The methods used in arriving at the end results are not usually reviewed in detail.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:
None.

COMPLEXITY:
The work includes various duties involving different and unrelated processes and methods; the decision regarding what needs to be done depends upon the analysis of the subject, phase, or issues involved in each assignment, and the chosen course of action may have to be selected from many alternatives; the work involves conditions and elements that must be identified and analyzed to discern interrelationships.

GUIDELINES:
Guidelines are available but are not completely applicable to the work or have gaps in specificity; the employee uses judgement in interpreting and adapting guidelines; the employee analyzes results and recommends changes. The employee sometimes makes decisions that affect persons or situation beyond the scope of his/her own tasks, such as assisting customers or problem solving for customers.