Licensed Professional Counselor; LPC, LCSW

Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC, LCSW)

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Metrocare serves our neighbors with developmental or mental health challenges by helping them find lives that are meaningful and satisfying. The largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, Metrocare serves over 55,000 adults and children annually. In addition to behavioral health care, Metrocare provides primary‑care centers for adults and children, services for veterans and their families, pharmacies, housing, and supportive social services.

The Altshuler Center for Education & Research advances mental health beyond Dallas County while fostering the state’s workforce.

• Provides individual and small group training in living skills such as social skills, budgeting, mobility training, grocery shopping, menu planning, cooking, coping skills, personal hygiene, personal organization, home maintenance, etc.
• Provides therapeutic counseling services in accordance with clinical algorithms.
• Assists in completing intake assessments and diagnostic formulations as needed.
• Coordinates services within the Agency and with other community providers.
• Assists with the involvement and education of the consumer’s family at a level acceptable to the consumer.
• Assists with monitoring and continued assessment of assigned consumers. These activities may require home visits.
• Responds to crisis or potential crisis situations and ensures the appropriate level of care through the coordination of services or the provision of community support services.
• Assists with on‑call services in accordance with Agency procedures.
• Facilitates skills training and therapeutic groups.
• Provides transportation for consumers in an agency‑provided vehicle to and from community resources or social activities as needed.
• Assists consumers in planning and implementing social/leisure activities as appropriate, including taking consumers into the community for outings and social/leisure skills development or maintenance.
• Documents services in the automated clinical record‑keeping system with 24‑hour documentation after services have occurred.
• Maintains required productivity levels as outlined in Center policies.
• Maintains confidentiality of information concerning consumers and family members.
• Provides overall service coordination, referral, linkage, and advocacy to consumers with varying needs. Performs duties in concert with other members of an interdisciplinary treatment team.
• Completes a psychosocial assessment on each new admission. Upon assessment as clinically indicated 100% compliance expected.
• Formulates individual service plan based on assessment findings on all new admissions. 100% compliance expected.
• Develops measurable objectives and goals agreed upon by the consumer.
• Actively assists in obtaining and modifying goals as needed.
• Documents attempts to involve consumer, service providers, and caregivers unless opposed by the consumer in the service plan process.
• Reviews service plans every three months or as clinically indicated. 100% compliance expected.
• Participates in interdisciplinary team staffing, presents psychosocial assessment findings, encourages consumer to attend staffing, and updates the team on progress.
• Follows up assigned consumers who miss a scheduled clinic appointment, documents attempts to contact the consumer, and reports repeated unsuccessful efforts to the treatment team.
• Follows up within 24 hours on assigned consumers who access emergency services, reports status‑disposition to the treatment team. 100% compliance expected.
• Provides crisis intervention. Makes home visits, initiates mental‑illness warrants, works with police and other public servants as needed to address crisis.
• Facilitates inpatient admission upon request of the treatment team, provides continuity of services throughout inpatient stay, participates actively in discharge planning, and meets with the consumer within 5 days of discharge into the community.
• Provides individual, family, and group rehabilitation sessions. Evaluates progress, solicits feedback, and consults with colleagues and team…