Mental Health Counselor

Starting Wage Range : $74,901.04 / yr. -$96,316.53 / yr.

Essential Functions :

• Provides mental health counseling services from a trauma informed perspective and approach. Provides counseling services to clients having problems of a social, psychological and / or economic nature that have a bearing on their overall health and well-being.
• Provides care coordination and home visits as deemed clinically necessary.
• Interviews clients and others to obtain data on client's personal, social, and emotional history. Prepares case histories to provide information on client's personality and behavior as required for diagnosis and treatment. Participates as team member in conferences on behalf of clients in Multi-Disciplinary Team Meetings.
• Provides individual and group therapy to those indicating a need for such an approach to problem solving.
• Ensures clients understand, accept and follow medical recommendations and provide services to restore clients to optimum functional level.
• Makes court appearances and provides testimony consistent with confidentiality obligations when requested by the Tribe.
• Works in community groups and with community leaders to facilitate the community problem solving process.
• Follows Federal and State law and policy as it relates to community health outreach and social work functions services.
• Provides advice, assistance and training to other human services workers in the health program and the community, as appropriate and when requested, within the limits of incumbent's technical knowledge.
• Maintains continuing Education for Certification, completes up to 80 hours skills training every two years (for re-certification), ensures CPR / First aid card is up to date, and maintains certification and clinical skills.
• Handles protected health information (PHI) in a manner consistent with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
• Performs a variety of other duties as assigned by supervisor.

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