Health Pros North West Hiring For Behavioral Health Counselor at Everett, WA, United States Full Time

Job Description

Health Pros Northwest – Medical Staffing for Corrections, Tribal Wellness and Behavioral Health Facilities. We are a local leader for temporary, short-term, long-term and direct placement opportunities for all levels of nursing, allied and pharmacy staff in WA & OR!
We are seeking a passionate MHP to join a local county jail ASAP!!
Position Summary

The counselor, using appropriate individual, couple and family therapy, group counseling, educational classes and case management services, provides counseling and crisis intervention services to adults and families in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, and with Behavioral Health policies and procedures.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Schedules, coordinates and manages an ongoing caseload of 30-35 clients.
• Provides individual, couple, family and group counseling, intake and assessment, diagnosis, crisis intervention, drop-in, and follow up services.
• Participates in staff meetings, consultations, case presentations, and training programs.
• Provides education services (i.e., parenting classes, skill building classes), and community and school trainings and presentations.
• Maintains client progress, and provides outreach and advocacy to help people attain their highest degree of health and independence.
• Provides ongoing outreach to children, youth, parents, schools and communities to ensure awareness of community needs and service availability.
• Develops and maintains positive relations with community referral sources.
• Advocates and facilitates the delivery of medical/psychiatric, housing, employment and educational services.
• Provides necessary agency and program statistical information and information necessary for program/services evaluation.
• Maintains case records in an accurate and timely manner; develops and maintains current crisis plan.
• Meets with supervisor on a regular basis and attends required meetings, consultations and trainings.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of treatment approaches for individual and family counseling, crisis intervention and brief therapy.
• Knowledge of group process.
• Ability to develop and monitor goal-directed treatment relationships.
• Knowledge of treatment approaches for drug dependent clients, and ability to work with clients experiencing drug dependency issues.
• Ability to develop community resources and market services.
• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing.
• Ability to read, write and speak in English.
• Must demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to cultural differences.

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

• Frequently involves sedentary work.
• Occasionally involves light work.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds.
• Constantly requires the ability to give and receive detailed information through verbal communication.
• Constantly requires working with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm.
• Constantly requires repetitive movement of the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
• Often requires walking or moving about to accomplish tasks.
• Occasionally requires standing and/or sitting for sustained periods of time.
• Occasionally requires ascending or descending stairs or ramps using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Position Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Social Services field or related field (Psychology, Mental Health Counseling).
• Washington State Counselor’s license.
• Experience in counseling adults and families.
• Experience in leading groups, trainings and workshops.
• Experience working with diversified, ethnic/cultural populations in social services.
• Experience with drug abusing patients.
• Ability to pass criminal background check and pre-employment drug screen.
• WA state Driver’s license
• Must keep up to date certification CEU’s to provide services to clients.