Job Description
Job Summary Provides an opportunity for individuals to fulfill the experience requirements for licensure as a Licensed Behavioral Health Professional by providing professional counseling services while under the supervision of an approved supervisor. The Licensed Behavioral Health Professional Candidate/Supervisee’s experience shall be compatible with the knowledge and skills acquired during education in accordance with professional requirements and relevant to the intended area of practice. Job Duties Routine duties shall include providing health care services to individuals eligible for services in accordance with the self-governance compact and funding agreement between the Cherokee Nation and the United State executed under the authority of the Indian-Self Determination and Education Assistance Act. Practices only within the boundaries of their competence, based on their documented education, training, supervised experience, state and national professional credentials, and appropriate professional experience. Evaluates psychological, social, and physiological signs and symptoms. Determines the client’s appropriateness for admission or referral. Identifies any co-existing conditions (medical, psychiatric, physical, etc.) that indicate the need for additional professional assessments and/or services. Completes required documents for admission to the program, program eligibility, and appropriateness. Obtains appropriately signed consent when soliciting from or providing information to outside sources to protect client’s confidentiality and rights. Provides an overview to the client by describing the extent and nature of the services available to them and the program goals and objectives for client care. Provides an overview to the client by describing program operations, rules, and the client’s obligations and rights. Gathers relevant history from the client using appropriate interview techniques. Identifies appropriate assessment tools and explains to the client the rationale for the use of assessment techniques to facilitate understanding. Develops a diagnostic evaluation of the client’s condition(s) based on the results of all assessments to provide an integrated approach to treatment planning based on the client’s strengths, weaknesses, identified problems, and needs, and explains results to clients in an understandable manner. Identifies and ranks problems based on individual client needs in the written treatment plan and formulate an agreement with immediate and long-term goals using behavioral terms in the written treatment plan. Identifies the treatment methods and resources to be utilized as appropriate for the individual client. Selects the counseling theory(ies) and techniques to assist the client, group, and/or family in exploring problems and ramifications and examining the client’s behavior, attitudes, and/or feelings if appropriate in the treatment setting. Individualizes counseling per cultural, gender, and lifestyle differences. Elicits solutions and decisions from the client. Plans, implements, and evaluates the treatment plan while coordinating services for client care. Recognizes the elements of a client’s crisis and implements an immediate course of action appropriate to the crisis. Identifies the needs of the client that cannot be met by the counselor or agency and assists the client to utilize the support systems and community resources available. Charts the results of assessments and treatment plans, writes reports, progress, notes, discharge summaries, and other client-related data. Maintains detailed progress notes that contain at minimum: 1) Reason for the contact. Assessment of client’s current clinical presentation. Relevant history. Specific mental health/clinical interventions by the provider, per type of service and scope of practice. Client’s response to interventions. Unresolved issues from previous contacts. Plans, next steps, and/or clinical decisions. If little or no progress toward goals/objectives is being made, describe why. Include the date of the next planned contact and/or next clinician action. Indicate referrals made. Address any issues of risk. Consults with appropriate resources to assure comprehensive, quality care for the client. Values objectivity and integrity while providing services, and strives to maintain the highest standard of the profession. Accepts responsibility for the consequences of their work and ensures that their services are used appropriately. Conducts assessments or diagnoses to establish treatment goals and objectives. Performs only those testing and assessment services for which they have been trained and shall be familiar with related standardization and proper application and security of any technique utilizes. If using computer-based test interpretations, shall be trained in the construct being measured and the specific instrument being used before using this type of c