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Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 5 days ago
On-site Traverse City, MI $75K – $97K Apply by Sep 21, 2026 Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor ENFJENFPESFJINFJ Healthcare
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This licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor (LPMHC) position is located at Aleda E. Lutz VA Medical Center in Traverse City, MI. The experienced LPMHC independently provides clinical psychosocial and case management services at an advanced practice level to eligible veterans and their family members to meet their mental health needs.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but are not limited to: Interview's 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 psychosocial assessment.
- →Interprets and explains VA's treatment.
- →Makes a clinical assessment identifying needs and strengths.
- →Assesses veterans for symptoms of abuse, follows VA guidelines for reporting.
- →Performs insightful assessment of serious and complicated cases involving psychiatric illness involving psychiatric, catastrophic medical conditions, dementia and other high-risk diagnoses.
- →Uses the initial assessment to determine the veteran's likelihood to accept differing types of assistance or referrals.
- →Develops preliminary psychosocial treatment plans in coordination with veteran/family.
- →Makes recommendations to the interdisciplinary team.
- →Provides advice, guidance, emotional support, and other assistance.
- →Assists and encourages veterans and significant others in facing problems, thinking them through, evaluating the situation realistically, considering alternative courses of action, and arriving at plans for using resources to resolve problems.
- →Develops working relationships and agreements with other organizations having responsibilities for the same patient population.
- →Maintains a current and productive network of referral resources.
- →Documents independently in the medical records utilizing electronic formats, including psychosocial assessments, diagnostics, treatment, progress notes, follow up, and referral.
- →Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm.
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 identification 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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