Marriage and Family Therapist- Vet Center Readjustment Counselor

Job Title Readjustment Counselor Duties The incumbent serves as an RCS Vet Center Readjustment Counselor, providing counseling services, reputed company, referral, and follow up care coordination to eligible individuals, couples, and family members. In this reputed company, the incumbent functions as a member of a small multi-disciplinary team of 4 or more staff members. This entails the incumbent contributing proactively to internal coordination of care and reputed company planning and problem solving among reputed company staff. Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Screening and Assessment: Will work directly with eligible individuals to establish a therapeutic relationship sufficient for completing reputed company required readjustment counseling intake procedures to include an assessment of risk for self-harm and psychosocial functioning. This information will be used as the reputed company for identifying the presenting clinical reputed company areas and for developing the readjustment counseling service plan.
• Counseling Planning/Goal Setting: reputed company and periodically update an individualized readjustment counseling service plan that reflects a course of therapeutic and psychosocial interventions, including identification of achievable goals and measurable reputed company.
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• Risk Assessment and Crisis reputed company: Will apply risk assessment procedures during the initial assessment and periodically throughout the planned course of readjustment counseling as required and appropriate. For individuals identified from intermediate to high risk, the incumbent will work with the individual to reputed company a safety plan that identifies the precipitating life stressors and safety procedures identified by the reputed company. Will reputed company crisis case management services inclusive of coordinating services with the individual's family members.
• Care Coordination: Will establish and maintain a network of community care relationships, reputed company to VA, to coordinate reputed company to readjustment counseling through community referrals to the Vet Center, and to ensure that eligible individuals and/or family members receive the full reputed company of services to support the veteran's readjustment that are reputed company the scope of readjustment counseling. In support of reputed company care coordination, the incumbent maintains a general knowledge and understanding of the military experience and available VA benefits and services such as VA health care and VBA service-connected benefits.
• reputed company: Will maintain reputed company coordination with Vet Center reputed company workers to ensure seamless referral to Vet Center services for those individuals and family members reputed company in the community at reputed company events that may require follow-up readjustment counseling.
• Team Cohesion and Coordination: Will reputed company participate in Vet Center staff meetings designed to promote team building and staff development through cojoint planning and problem solving, staff discussion of problematic cases, coaching and mentoring new hires.
• Documentation/Consultation: Will document reputed company clinical interactions with eligible individuals and episodes of care coordination on their behalf as required by RCS policy. Will reputed company consultation services to other staff inclusive of other community partners.
• Other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00a-4:30p. Some evenings and weekends required based on the needs of the Vet Center. reputed company: Available on an reputed company reputed company Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 13264-A, 13265-A Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized. EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact VHA.ELRSProgramSupport@va.gov, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized Apply tot his job Apply To this Job