In San Antonio, TX: Texas Association of Community Health Centers is seeking a full-time Licensed Professional Counselor to provide behavioral health services through individual and group counseling, ensuring referral and tracking of these services. In addition to, screening, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment to individuals, families, or groups while assuring that a comprehensive service plan is developed and that it meets individual patient needs. This comprehensive plan will include both brief, problem focused therapy that assist patient in self-management skills.

Job Overview:

• Assures that Behavioral Health clients are assisted through the use of the Center’s established referral system for in-house services, and to appropriate community agencies, while also providing consultation to provider staff to assure proper interdepartmental support. This will entail full integration with all Behavioral Health Services staff and other providers throughout the Center’s primary care departments and clinic sites. 
• Document all outcome measures for the BH program. This includes but is not limited to the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, the Vanderbilt ADHD Scale and other outcome measures implemented in the course of practice and appropriate to demonstrate patient BH status.
• Attends and actively participates all departmental meetings and in Center activities in order pursue the mission and vision of the Center. 
• Establishes and maintains a working relationship with community-based agencies in the best interest of the patient or the Center.
• Treating all age groups, children through adults.

No agencies, please. TACHC does not accept solicitations from recruitment agencies.

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Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in counseling from an accredited college or university.
• Licensed Professional Counselor to practice in the State of Texas.
• Thorough knowledge of parenting issues, communication skills, family dynamics, brief and focused psychotherapeutic interventions such as cognitive behavioral, problems based counseling
• Ability to plan and organize work with minimal supervision
• Knowledge of and sensitivity to cultural diversity
• Valid Driver’s License in the State of Texas
• Preferred bilingual in English and Spanish
• Certified in Basic Life Support (BLS), American Heart Association
• 2 years of Experience as a Counselor required