Licensed Marriage & Family Mental Health Therapist (LPC, LMFT, LCSW)

Description

Title: Licensed Marriage & Family Mental Health Therapist (LPC, LMFT, LCSW)

Department:  FIVE18 Mental Health

Job Status:  Active 

FLSA Status:  Non-Exempt 

Reports To: Director of Marriage & Relationship Services

Amount of Travel Required:  0-10% of travel time expected (potential for multiple work sites)

Job Type: Part-time (Minimum of 15 client sessions/week; potential to be hired if wanting to complete less than 15 client hours/week but this will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis)

Positions Supervised: None

Work Schedule: Varies

Pay & Benefits: Ranges $32,400 - $48,000 pt annually between 15-20 completed hour sessions. Session rate varies based on experience, certifications/education, and tenure. Benefits include flexible schedule, continued education stipend, volunteer time off, 401k (after 6 months), 401k matching (after 1 year) and the potential for part-time Holiday PTO (after 1 year). 

Position Summary

The purpose of this position is to fulfill the mission of FIVE18 Counseling and FIVE18 Family Services by providing professional counseling that facilitates a collaborative process of growth and change with couples and families. The professional counseling services provided will be guided by professional ethics of the counseling field and by best practice standards, and consistent with the Christian culture of FIVE18 Family Services. 

Essential Functions

• Provides couples and/or family therapy to clients 
• Ensures that counseling sessions begin and end on time
• Completes all required paperwork for client charts and billing in a timely manner
• Coordinate services with a multidisciplinary team, including social workers, administrative staff, medical staff, and community agencies
• Attend or cooperate with court proceedings and testify in court as needed
• Completes all continuing educational requirements regarding marriage and family work needed to remain in good standing with licensing board
• Maintains client confidentiality and other ethical standards outlined by the state licensing board and participates in clinical supervision or consultation as needed
• Schedules follow up sessions with clients, takes payments, and issues receipts
• Participates in team staff meetings and in FIVE18 all-staff meetings
• Participates in required trainings
• Work with supervisor to identify annual SMART(er) goals; participate in the quarterly reset using the C-BOS training library.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement:  To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

Competency Statements 

• Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly. 
• Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.  
• Active Listening - Ability to actively and accurately attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.  
• Ambition - The drive to achieve personal advancement.  
• Analytical Skills - Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.  
• Autonomy - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Communication, Oral and Written - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken and written word.  
• Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the customers’ needs while following company procedures, in a friendly manner.
• Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.  
• Diversity Oriented - Ability to work effectively with people regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or job type.  
• Empathetic - Ability to appreciate and be sensitive to the feelings of others.  
• Ethical - Ability to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.  
• Honesty / Integrity - Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace. 
• Interpersonal - Ability to get along well with a variety of personalities and individuals.
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.  
• Problem-Solving - Ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related problems.
• Relationship Building - Ability to effectively build relationships with clients, co-workers, and community partners.  
• Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
• Self Motivated - Ability to be confidently, internally inspired to perform a task to the best of one’s ability using his or her own drive or initiative.  

DELIVERABLES:  

The Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist will meet with clients as scheduled and provide quality counseling and mental health services. They will maintain and monitor their schedules, and provide the number of clinical sessions each week as agreed upon in collaboration with the Director of Marriage & Relationship Services.

Requirements

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge of:

• Human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
• Principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis and treatment of conditions found in the DSM-5 TR. 
• Principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction
• Couple therapies, techniques, tools, and knowledge of theorists. Ex. Gottman, IMAGO, Prepare-Enrich, SYMBIS, etc. 
• Family therapies, techniques, tools, and knowledge of theorists. Ex. IFS, Bowenian Family Systems, Structural, Strategic, etc.
• Group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, ethnicity, cultures
• All pertinent insurance policies
• Basic computer programs such as: Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Internet, and Database applications
• Current counseling/therapy techniques and methodologies

Skills:

• Basic technological skills: using computers, fax machines, and telephones 
• Skilled in assessment, evaluation, application of appropriate therapeutic methods

Abilities:

• To communicate both orally and in writing
• To report necessary counseling information in a clear, concise, and complete way
• To make informed, objective decisions with integrity
• To collaborate effectively with other team members

Required Education: 

• Graduate degree in Psychology – Counseling – Social Work

Certification & Licenses:

• Licensure by the Commonwealth of VA – LPC, LMFT or LCSW
• Strong preference for certifications in various methods of trauma informed care and various marriage and family therapies. 

Other Requirements:

• Languages: Must be able to effectively communicate orally and in writing, in the English language, with proper etiquette
• Office or other equipment: Normal use and understanding of basic office equipment including the computer and its related software, copiers, and fax machines
• Must have the clean and neat appearance of a business professional
• Obtain and maintain personal malpractice insurance in compliance with state guidelines
• Maintaining active licensure with respective boards including maintaining continued education

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:  

N (Not Applicable)  Activity is not applicable to this position. 

O (Occasionally)  Position requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0 - 2.5+ hrs/day) 

F (Frequently) - Position requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5 - 5.5+ hrs/day) 

C (Constantly) - Position requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5+ hrs/day)

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Stand:  F    Walk: F   Sit:  F

Manually Manipulate  F  Reach Outward   O  Reach Above Shoulder  O

Climb O    Crawl N   Squat or Kneel  F

Bend O    Grasp  O   Speak  F

Other Physical Requirements  

Vision (Near, Distance, Color, Peripheral, Depth) - For reading and driving

Sense of Sound - For answering, listening and speaking on the telephone. Listening and speaking to clients, counselors and other FIVE18 staff

Sense of Smell - For safety in detection of hazardous fumes and/or smoke

Sense of Taste - N/A

Sense of Touch - For handling tools and materials and accomplishing activities of daily living

Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) 

Sense of Balance - For standing and walking

WORK ENVIRONMENT:  Office setting

 The company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the company may deem appropriate.