SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES
The Licensed Professional Counselor is responsible for direct patient care including services to individual patients and their families, biopsychosocial assessment, and referral to community resources. The Licensed Professional Counselor is responsible for the timely and accurate delivery of services upon referral of patients, assuring that services are delivered in a courteous and professional manner and in accordance with applicable policies and procedures, rules, regulations, and prevailing law. The Licensed Professional Counselor will maintain effective relationships with other community agencies to support cross-referral of patients.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- The essential function of the Licensed Professional Counselor is to provide a range of psychological assessments, diagnostic, therapeutic, and/or case management services for patients.
- The duties of the Licensed Professional Counselor include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Provides direct patient care.
- Completes evaluations with variety of diagnostic tools, following best practices.
- Provides acute and chronic care according to behavioral health principles and practices.
- Monitors effective therapy.
- Knowledge of the development and maintenance of information/referral systems.
- Triages patient phone calls and evaluates patient problems.
- Demonstrates a sensitivity and responsiveness to a variety of cultural values and beliefs and social determinants of health.
- Conducts basic screenings of patients, including review of barriers to health self-management; depression; stress; and substance use.
- Provides basic crisis intervention services to patients in need.
- Provides basic case management supports regarding emotional and mental health needs, functional abilities, readiness to change, caregiver stability, social supports, financial resources, environment and safety concerns, life care planning and self-management skills.
- Communicates effectively with colleagues, patients, physicians and administration.
- Demonstrates positive and effective verbal and written communication skills with patients, families and co-workers, and in patient documentation.
- Educates patients and families.
- Provides staff with education formally and informally through peer review processes.
- Demonstrates efficient management of time and resources.
- Utilizes and conducts research/inquiry appropriate to clinical setting.
- Maintains a current level of clinical practice by selecting appropriate avenues for professional growth and routinely seeks continuing education according to best practice. Evaluates goal attainment and revises goals on an on-going basis.
- Adheres to and enforces PTCOA policies and procedures.
- Maintains productivity equivalent to or above 75% of paid worked hours (i.e., 6 hours of billable time on an 8-hour paid worked day). Scheduled hours are 8:00am-5:00pm Monday through Thursday, Friday 8-12:00.
- Completes documentation on date of service or within 48 hours of delivery.
- Performs other duties as assigned by supervision.
