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MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 88 days ago
About the Role
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 Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) within Behavior Medicine Service (BMS) serves as a core member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- →The LMFT is responsible for providing family, couple and marriage counseling to Veterans within BMS.
- →The LMFT conducts intakes, assessment interviews, develops treatment plans, and provides treatment to eligible Veterans and their families.
- →Treatment modalities may include crisis intervention as well as both short term and long-term services.
- →The LMFT may refer patients to other programs and professionals within the Eastern Oklahoma VA Healthcare System (EOVHCS).
- →The LMFT should participate in all BMS functions as required, including consultations with others, emergency care, and interacting in BMS training and staff meetings.
- →Works to provide expert level psychosocial interventions and case management services to veterans with complex medical, social and behavioral conditions in which routine clinic-based care is not effective.
- →Major Duties and Responsibilities: Screening and Assessments -the LMFT interviews Veterans and their significant others to determine specific problems.
- →Independently conducts intake and needs assessment of Veterans and their significant others and establishes a relationship with the Veterans within the counseling setting.
- →This includes making DSM diagnosis as appropriate to level of training.
- →Treatment Planning and Goal Setting - The LMFT is responsible for developing comprehensive and unique goal-directed treatment plans that reflect a course of therapeutic intervention to address the needs identified in the assessment.
- →Clinical Counseling -The LMFT provides individual, conjoint, family, couples and group therapy for Veterans and significant others, including the potential use of Evidence Based Psychotherapies.
- →Crisis Intervention -The LMFT will provide crisis intervention, stabilization, and follow-up for Veterans and significant others.
- →This includes evaluation and management of suicidal/homicidal patients and other psychiatric emergencies.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: cabd250f-2183-4256-8a47-0b1a029eef99
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