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Marriage and Family Therapist (Licensed) - Advanced
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 4 days ago
Hybrid Kansas City, MO $91K – $118K Apply by Sep 21, 2026 Marriage and Family Therapist ENFJESFJINFJINFP
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Provides advanced, independent mental health services within the Behavioral Health Interdisciplinary Program, delivering psychosocial assessment, diagnosis, evidence-based psychotherapy, family systems treatment, and crisis intervention. Serves as a consultant to interdisciplinary teams and uses measurement-based care to support Veterans with complex and high-acuity mental health needs.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but are not limited to: Performs comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments, incorporating complex multiple causation and high-risk factors; completes suicide risk assessments and safety plans.
- →Independently provides diagnostic evaluation and develops individualized treatment plans using outcome measures, clinical reminders, and VA documentation standards.
- →Delivers evidence-based, recovery-oriented psychotherapy including individual, couples, family, and group interventions for Veterans with complex mental health conditions (PTSD, SMI, substance use, high-risk presentations).
- →Coordinates screening, assessment, and referral to specialized programs such as PTSD Clinical Team, SUD Clinic, PRRC, and PRRTP.
- →Utilizes measurement-based care to inform treatment planning, track outcomes, and improve program effectiveness.
- →Provides advanced consultation and training to interdisciplinary team members and community providers on family systems issues, assessment, and treatment planning.
- →Documents assessments, treatment, progress notes, and follow-up care independently in electronic medical records; manages consults and complex cases.
- →Contributes to performance improvement processes, policy development, program initiatives, and may serve on local, VISN, or national committees.
- →Provides teaching, mentoring, and supervision for LMFTs, trainees, and interdisciplinary students.
- →Maintains compliance with VA performance measures, facility operational policies, documentation standards, and computerized patient record requirements.
- →Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30 pm Telework: Ad-hoc Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
- →Functional Statement #: 000000 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
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.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 9ab9c76d-fb1e-434e-b1a9-4b901ddff7d4
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