Behavioral Health Professional Counselor

Summary
The School-Based Therapist provides individual, family, and group counseling services primarily within partnering school districts, helping students improve their emotional well-being, behavioral health, and academic success. Working closely with school staff, families, and community partners, the therapist delivers evidence-based, trauma-informed care while maintaining all clinical documentation and confidentiality requirements. While the primary work location is in assigned schools, the therapist may periodically provide services at Goodwill Easterseals Miami Valley's Counseling & Wellness offices to ensure continuity of care and meet the needs of students and families. The function of this position is to provide quality clinical care to clients. Counselors assess clients on admission with respect to behavioral health needs and review, update, and execute that assessment on a continuing basis. Candidates for this role must hold an active LPC, LPCC, LSW, LISW, or LISW-S license.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Responsibilities supervised by an appropriately licensed practitioner include:

Inform clients of limits to confidentiality, rights regarding services delivered and payment expectations.
Perform diagnostic assessment, treatment planning, and counseling services within supervised scope of practice in collaboration with clients.
Establish and review goals for each client.
Coordinate interventions with a multidisciplinary treatment team.
Integrate services and/or make referrals to appropriate professionals or outside agencies as indicated.
Perform community outreach, information and referral, education assignments, and consultation services as approved by supervisor.
Attends staff meetings, in-services, case conferences, supervision sessions, etc., as scheduled.
Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities
Under the supervision of an Independently Licensed Practitioner, the Licensed Professional Counselor may oversee the work of interns and volunteers.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Appropriate degrees to support license status (LSW, LPC, MFT, CDCA, LCDC II or III).
Must hold, at minimum, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) or Licensed Social Worker (LSW) license in the state of Ohio.
One year of professional practice experience in a behavioral health setting providing one-on-one client therapy, diagnostic assessment, and treatment planning.
Possess the ability to evaluate the behavioral health needs of clients.
CPR and first aid certification.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word/Excel), with the ability to utilize an electronic health record system (CareLogic).
Display good customer service skills with clients, internal colleagues and the community at large.

Qualifications

Must hold an active LPC, LPCC, LSW, LISW, or LISW-S license.
Must maintain a valid driver's license and a driving record acceptable to Goodwill's liability insurance provider.
Maintain the ability to pass a criminal background check and random drug screens.

Skills & Abilities

Excellent clinical skills.
Must possess the ability to evaluate the behavioral health needs of clients.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills.
Computer skills (Microsoft Office Suite) and the ability to use an EHR (CareLogic).
Demonstrate initiative, as well as the ability to work cohesively within a team.
Ability to show care, warmth, patience, and nurturing to the target population.
Displays good customer service skills with clients, internal colleagues, and our community at large.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

stand;
walk;
use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls;
reach with hands and arms;
and talk or hear.

The employee is occasionally required to:

climb or balance;
stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl;
and taste or smell.

The employee must:

regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds;
frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds;
and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include:

close vision;
distance vision;
color vision;
peripheral vision;
depth perception;
and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works in outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.