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Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 days ago
Hybrid Oklahoma City, OK $90K – $116K Apply by Jun 18, 2026 Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor ENFJESFJINFJINFP
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The Oklahoma City VA Health Care System, Mental Health Service, is currently recruiting for One Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor to help care for our Veterans.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Major Duties and Responsibilities: Ensure weekly clinical contact (by phone or in-person) for high-risk Veterans discharged from inpatient status for the first thirty days post discharge (by Veteran's mental health provider or suicide prevention team).
- →Minimum of monthly contact for Veterans deemed at high-risk for suicide following national guidelines, and those Veterans placed on the high-risk list.
- →Preparation and updates in conjunction with primary mental health team of the suicide specific assessment, treatment plan, safety plan and follow-up notes including treatment plan updates.
- →Provision of evidenced-based treatment to high-risk Veterans (i.e., group, individual, psychoeducational classes) Review/provision of comprehensive discharge planning and social service referrals to high-risk Veterans and Families.
- →Response to National Suicide Prevention Hotline and internal facility calls regarding suicidal Veterans.
- →Participation in administrative committees associated with flagging, tracking and monitoring of high-risk Veterans and serving as back-up to Suicide Prevention Coordinator and other Suicide Prevention clinicians as needed.
- →Tracking all suicide attempts and patients with serious suicide ideation at each facility.
- →Tracking and contacting any no-show appointments by identified Veterans with follow-up.
- →Provides clinical case management services while utilizing professional skill, objectivity, insight, advanced clinical training, and experience to interpret data, and to identify viable treatment options and recognizing potential high-risk factors, acuity, and needs for services.
- →Obtains any relevant HIPAA clearances to allow transmittal of facility data on suicide attempts and individuals at risk and transmitting the data following cyber security requirements as applicable for this sensitive data.
- →Ensuring that identified high-risk Veterans have a 24-hour resource number to call and ways to get assistance if an immediate crisis should occur.
- →Ensuring that Veterans hospitalized for suicide attempt have suicide safety plan in place prior to discharge, and a follow-up appointment schedule.
- →Developing and implementing an ongoing education plan for providers, Veterans, families and members of the community of risk factors and warning signs for suicide and treatment options.
- →Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm Telework: Situational (Ad-hoc) Functional Statement #: 55932A
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
Job ID: 9609819e-863d-4c1e-b492-cabf4256ba3c
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