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The Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor (LPMHC) is assigned as a member of the Mental Health Service Line, located in the Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program (BHIP). Incumbent provides screenings and a full range of psychological assessments for diagnosis and treatment planning, individual and group psychotherapy, treatment plans, case management, and other clinical services for veterans with co-occurring mental disorders and medical problems. Major duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to: * Provides a full range of psychosocial assessment services and psychiatric diagnoses of mental disorders, particularly for complex or unusually difficult patients in a variety of treatment settings, including tele-mental health. * Provides education to patients, family members, and significant others. * Provides comprehensive, evidence-based psychotherapeutic interventions, including individual, family, and group psychotherapy. * Provides clinical supervision to interns and post-doctoral fellows in areas related to behavioral health and social services provision to attain goals and objectives of recovery programs. * Provides consultation to professional staff within VA Medical Center at Memphis and to community providers, concerning clinical assessment findings and appropriate treatment plans for patients. * Develops, implements, and documents the psychotherapeutic treatment plan for unassigned caseload of patients, including prompt completion of clinical reminders. Implements methods for measuring effectiveness of social work practice and services in the specialty area, utilizing outcome evaluations to improve treatment services and to design system changes. * Functions independently at the VA Medical Center at Memphis and assumes complete professional responsibility for his/her clinical assessment findings, patient care decisions, and documentation. * Interviews veterans and their family members/significant others to establish facts about the veteran's situation, presenting problems and their causes, and the impact of such problems on the veteran's functioning and health as part of a comprehensive psychosocial assessment. Interprets and explains VA's treatment and benefit programs. * Reviews all data, subjective and objective, and makes a clinical assessment, identifying needs and strengths. Effectively uses professional skill, objectivity, and insight. Uses advanced clinical training, insight, and experience to interpret data and to identify viable treatment options. Assess high risk factors, acuity and need for services. * Has the ability to serve veterans who tend to have serious frequent and severe crises, lack family or an adequate community support network, be poor at self-monitoring, frequently fail to comply with instructions and treatment, have significant deficits in coping skills and require continuing professional psychological support. * Independently evaluates the client's situation, including the veteran's reaction to it and ability to deal with it, and arrives at a reasoned conclusion. Based on the psychosocial assessment, uses professional judgment and advanced practice skills to make a psychosocial diagnosis. Makes independent professional decisions and recommendations for agency action. * On an inpatient/outpatient basis, finds a suitable means of treatment to help veterans and/or significant others cope with stressful situations. Treatment is aimed at helping veterans find practical solutions to the problems. * Incumbent develops psychosocial treatment plans in coordination with interdisciplinary team members, including goals for psychosocial clinical treatment. * Facilitates liaisons with other medical center programs to effectively coordinate services. * Complies with national and local performance measures, including timely health care screening and completion of clinical reminders for all patients. * Attends and participates in administrative and informational meetings held by the Chief of Mental Health Service, Section Chief of Mental Health Social Work and Recovery Programs, BHIP Supervisor, and other meetings as assigned to participate. * Coordinates with the Telehealth Coordinator and the Mental Health Service TMH Coordinator for the purpose of setting up TMH clinics, profiles, and operations for TMH services. * Other duties as assigned Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor (BHIP)/51013-F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized EDRP Authorized: Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized