Licensed Mental Health Counselor

Our Integrated Network brings together a diversity of experienced private practice and employed physicians as well as community and academic providers. While we are one unified network we focus on different geographic regions with local care teams convening to ensure healthy happy neighborhoods throughout the greater Boston region.

Hybrid Position: In person at the assigned Primary Care Practices a minimum of 4 hrs a month per practice.

Hours: 8:00am4:30pm MF

North Region Middlesex County

TMCCC Family Medicine Reading
30 New Crossing Road
Reading MA 01867

TMCCC Primary Care Wakefield
888 Main Street
Wakefield MA 01880

TMCCC Internal Medicine Melrose
830 Main Street
Melrose MA 02176

North Region Middlesex County

Westford Family Medicine
198 Littleton Road Suite 102
Westford MA 01886

Merrimack Family Medicine
600 Clark Road Suite 3
Tewksbury MA 01876

Tewksbury Family Health
1574 Main Street
Tewksbury MA 01876

Dracut Family Medicine
1595 Bridge Street Suite 3
Dracut MA 01826

Village Primary Care
10 Research Place Unit 200
North Chelmsford MA 01863

Job Overview

This position provides a range of clinical services to patients clients and families in inpatient ambulatory and emergency department utilizing individual family or group modalities and practicing within the guidelines of professional ethics and standards.

Job Description

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Masters degree in Counseling or related field within mental health.

2. One (1) year of experience post independent licensure counseling experience in mental health in an inpatient emergency department or outpatient setting.

3. Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC).

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Two (2) years of experience post independent licensure counseling experience in mental health in an inpatient emergency department or outpatient setting.

Duties and Responsibilities: The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an allinclusive list. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.

1. Provides psychosocial assessment of the individual and family including limitations deficits and strengths in their current situation and environment as well as functional level.

2. Responsible for psychosocial assessment.

3. Provides treatment therapy psychoeducation and/or counseling utilizing individual family or group modalities.

4. Provides information referral and creative resource acquisition for specific individual and family needs in the community as indicated.

5. Collaborates with and provides psychosocial consultation to the health care team to promote a smooth coordinated plan of care.

6. Provides outreach case finding/screening for highrisk issues that may impact on patients progress or ability to utilize resources.

7. Formulates coordinates and implements the psychosocial components of outpatient care.

8. Consults collaborates and communicates with a wide range of social governmental and legal agencies courts schools clinics other hospitals physicians and other sources.

9. Serves as a patient/family advocate with a variety of systems both internally and externally as required.

10. Ensures clinical documentation is complete and according to departmental standards.

11. Initiates participates in and supports policy and program development in the Department of Social Work Services.

12. Actively engages in the regularly scheduled meetings programs and activities of the Department on departmental committees.

13. Participates in professional education supervision and teaching activities.

14. Continually monitors assesses and modifies own practice and programs.

15. Conducts or participates in professional organizations grant writing teaching public presentations seminars and workshops as applicable.

16. May conduct a psychiatric assessment according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSMIV).

17. Conducts quality improvement activities and research regarding service delivery and effectiveness of interventions as .

18. Supervises or trains student interns house staff nurses medical students and volunteers.

19. Performs other administrative documentation and record keeping such as accountability and statistical reports billing forms student intern evaluations performance evaluations etc. in a complete and timely manner.

20. Aids the team in understanding and integrating the significance of psychosocial factors in relation to patients illness treatment and recovery.

21. Identifies psychosocial issues that may impede progress.

22. Makes recommendations to the team regarding patient/family care and management.

23. Assists health care team to assist patient/family level of understanding to make informed decisions.

24. Develops treatment plans with appropriate and competent interventions.

25. Assists patients/families to understand psychosocial factors impeding their maximal utilization of resources.

Physical Requirements:

1. Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 lbs.

2. This is largely a sedentary role which involves sitting most of the time but may involve movements such as walking standing reaching ascending/descending stairs and operating office equipment.

3. Frequently to speak hear communicate and exchange information.

4. Ability to see and read computer displays read fine print and/or normal type size print and distinguish letters numbers and symbols.

Skills & Abilities:

1. Possesses and applies the skills and knowledge necessary to provide care to patients throughout the life span with consideration of aging processes human development stages and cultural patterns in each step of the care process.

2. Knowledge of casework process and community resources in relation to health (including mental health) illness and disability.

3. Knowledge of current mental health counseling theory and practice the ability to apply treatment and case management methods and familiarity with community issues and resources.

4. Understanding of organizational theory and practice in large systems and knowledge of social and health care policies and systems.

5. High degree of diagnostic treatment interpersonal organizational and communication skills.

6. Analytical skills to assess patient needs to develop associated treatment modalities and to provide effective counseling.

7. Computer skills and knowledge of general office programs spreadsheet programs database programs and presentation programs (Word Excel Access PowerPoint).