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Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 3 days ago
Hybrid Yukon, 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: 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.
- →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.
- →Obtains PMDB training in accordance with workplace setting per the annual Workplace Behavioral Risk Assessment.
- →Develops behavioral health related training curriculum and often conduct trainings for clinical staff.
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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