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Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
HybridShawnee, OK$90K – $116KApply by Jun 2, 2026Licensed Professional Mental Health CounselorENFJESFJINFJINFP
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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. Individuals selected will work at the Oklahoma City VA Medical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma until the Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) they are selected for opens.
What You'll Do
- →*Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.* Major Duties and Responsibilities: Diagnoses mental disorders.
- →Treats Veterans with complex needs including multiple mental health diagnoses, and numerous psychosocial issues, using independent judgment, using a variety of modalities, including: individual, family and group counseling, triage/crisis management, and other interventions such as community based interventions.
- →Advanced psychotherapy is provided as needed.
- →Conducts initial intakes/biopsychosocial assessments and treatment planning in accordance with Joint Commission/VA requirements and service/clinic-level SOP.
- →Practices measurement-based care using the Collect, Share, Act model, in accordance with Joint Commission/VA requirements and service/clinic-level SOP.
- →Consults with OKC VA Health Care System staff on a wide variety of patient care issues.
- →Consults with referring provider/team and other OKC VA HCS mental health staff, as necessary, on a wide variety of patient care issues.
- →Participates in regularly scheduled Program/Clinic team meeting(s).
- →Evaluates and makes disposition of patients to treatment programs in the OKC VA Health Care System, as well as referral to community programs and vocational placement.
- →Serves as a consultant to other staff in evaluating and assisting Veterans with complex vocational problems.
- →Places consults for Veterans when clinically indicated.
- →Ensures documentation is completed timely in accordance with the facility medical bylaws.
- →Ensures coding is in accordance with the OMHSP MH Coding Guidelines.
- →Places RTCs in accordance with VHA directives and scheduling guidelines to ensure accurate patient appointment scheduling.
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.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination / 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: ce889355-6f82-43a3-8491-c0b3dc137556
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