Mental Health Professional​/Coordinator

Location: Monroe, LA

Job :280

# of Openings:1

Job Purpose: Provides professional mental health services to Veterans and their families by delivering emergency crisis intervention, leading a team that provides screening assessments, developing individualized suicide prevention services plans, maintaining documentation, organizing support groups, and supporting client safety, healing, and overall well-being in alignment with agency standards and ethical guidelines.

• Master’s degree in counseling or social work
• One year of supervision experience
• Flexibility to work non-traditional business hours
• Knowledge of Community Resources

• Verbal and written communications skills, including the ability to record with clarity and promptness
• Good listening skills and the ability to ask appropriate questions
• Ability to maintain poise, control and effectiveness in providing services to clients even under extreme stress and unexpected crises
• Appropriately assertive even in difficult situations
• Must demonstrate mature and objective, non-judgmental behaviors
• Ability to assess situations both within and outside the client system and determine priorities
• Ability to develop and maintain professional relationships with clients from various cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds
• Maintains positive work relationships with other staff, is cooperative and promotes teamwork
• Effectiveness in planning and arranging work responsibilities including handling deadlines and changes in priorities
• Ability to identify and use community resources
• Maintains personal appearance consistent with agency image
• Assumes responsibility for own learning
• Ability to work within the purpose, structure and constraints of the Agency and to make suggestions for change in a responsible manner
• Must maintain strict client confidentiality
• Commitment to professional growth

Customer Service. We work to delight our customers, both internal and external

Integrity. We act with the integrity that promotes the highest confidence, trust and accountability

Leadership. We demonstrate leadership in our organization and the community.

Teamwork. We work as a team, achieving more collectively than individually

• Orientation
• On-going in-service training
• Forty hours annually of continuing education in service area
• Initial and ongoing training in the areas of Veterans and their families
• Providing individual crisis intervention to Veterans and/or their families
• Organizing and/or conduction Veteran/Veteran family support groups
• Coordinating and providing educational and training opportunities for other community professionals and the public
• Leading a team that provides screening assessments to eligible Veterans
• Maintains accurate and complete records for each client by
• Gathering and documenting necessary demographic and personal information
• Ensuring that all necessary paperwork is signed by clients and by staff where appropriate
• Completing session reports for each session
• Documenting all contacts with or activities on behalf of each client, including individual sessions, group sessions, cancellations and no-shows, advocacy, referrals and phone contacts
• Ensuring all staff members of the team are incompliance with above
• Develop a competent, productive, and satisfied professional staff by
• Supervising directly and through delegations;
• Hiring, transferring, promoting, demoting, disciplining, and terminating;
• Providing educational and experiential growth opportunities;
• Assures quality services and program efficiency and…