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Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor (BHIP)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 1 days ago
HybridButte, MT$78K – $101KApply by Jun 3, 2026Licensed Professional Mental Health CounselorENFJESFJINFJINFP
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This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific eligibility requirements per VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) & eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after review of the EDRP application. Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply.
What You'll Do
- →The BHIP Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor provides outpatient behavioral health services-including evaluation, assessment, and treatment-to Veterans, their families, and the interdisciplinary team within the Charlie Dowd VA Clinic coverage area.
- →Duties include crisis response and management of a broad range of mental health disorders (e.g., SMI, PTSD, depression, anxiety, substance use).
- →The incumbent applies knowledge of mental health diagnoses and basic medical terminology to support patient care.
- →Major duties and responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to: Works with patients and families who are experiencing basic emotional, medical, and social problems utilizing individual, group, and family counseling skills.
- →Work with more complex problems are done under close supervision with guidance from the social work supervisor to assess the psychosocial functioning and needs of patients and their family members, and to formulate and implement a treatment plan, identifying the patient's problems, strengths, weaknesses, coping skills, and assistance needed.
- →Basic knowledge of psychosocial treatment modalities and, under supervision, implement treatment modalities in working with individuals, families, and groups to achieve treatment goals.
- →This requires judgment and skill in utilizing supportive, problem solving, or crisis intervention techniques.
- →Advanced knowledge of and mastery of theories and modalities used in the specialized treatment of complex physical and mental illness.
- →Incorporate complex multiple causation in differential diagnosis and treatment of veteran patients, including making psychosocial and psychiatric diagnoses within approved clinical privileges or scope of practice.
- →Determine priority for services and provide specialized treatment services.
- →Must have advanced and expert skill in a range of specialized interventions and treatment modalities used in specialty treatment programs or with special patient populations.
- →Provide subject matter consultation to colleagues and students on the psychosocial treatment of patients treated in the specialty area, rendering professional opinions based on experience and expertise and role modeling effective social work practice skills.
- →Teach and mentor staff and students in the specialty area of practice and to provide supervision for licensure or for specialty certifications.
- →Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: Ad hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
Personality Fit
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