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PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR 4 - THERAPIST/COUNSELOR - RESIDENTIAL FACILITY

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PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR 4 - THERAPIST/COUNSELOR - RESIDENTIAL FACILITY

Salary

Depends on Qualifications

Location

Mandeville, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

208548-PC4-FTC

Department

LDH-Florida Parishes Human Services Authority

Opening Date

05/13/2025

Closing Date

5/21/2025 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

EMBRACING OUR DIVERSITY MAKES US STRONGER

We believe that our individual differences are our strength, and it forms the foundation that allows our agency to empower individuals to experience a greater quality of life.

Our agency’s vision is that all people will be empowered to lead meaningful and productive lives among friends, relatives, and neighbors regardless of behavioral health needs or developmental disabilities. We have been lighting the path forward into r ecovery by providing person-centered services to adults and children who meet the treatment criteria for substance use disorders, developmental disabilities, and/or mental health.

To learn more about our agency, please Visit our website (http://fphsa.org/)

Potential Benefits:

+ Some of our facilities are approved HRSA/NHSC sites . S taff in specific positions at approved sites may be eligible to apply for certain student loan relief programs.

+ Educational opportunities made available to staff .

+ Paid holidays for eligible staff . This includes up to 10 statutory holidays as well as additional holidays as declared by the governor.

+ Earned Annual (personal) AND Sick Leave for eligible staff. Leave is accumulated and balances roll over each year.

+ Health , Life, and Miscellaneous Insurance Plans available for eligible staff, with multiple options at varying costs.

+ Retirement Options for eligible staff .

+ For some positions, clinical supervision related to licensure requirements may be provided by the appropriately licensed agency staff at no cost to the employee.

For more detailed information on some of these benefits, you may click on the “Benefits” tab located above .

This Professional Counselor 4 (full time) position is for a vacancy located in our Residential Inpatient Facility inMandeville, Louisiana. Please see the Examples of Work below for additional information for this position.

This position may be filled as a Probational Appointment . Applicants may be asked to serve a probationary period that may be anywhere from 6 months to 24 months.

Salary may be negotiable depending on the chosen applicant's level of experience. The minimum and maximum pay level for the position is listed below:

+ Professional Counselor 4: $24.35/hour Special Entrance Rate - $40.53/hour maximum

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

* Resumes WILL NOT be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete. *

For additional information about this vacancy contact:

Emily Barthelemy, HR Analyst

Florida Parishes Human Services Authority

835 Pride Drive, Suite B

Hammond, Louisiana 70401

[email protected]

Minimum Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Possession of a current Louisiana license to practice as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) or a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) plus two years of counseling experience.

Job Specification

FUNCTION OF WORK:

To provide intensive developmental and therapeutic assessment and treatment in serious or complicated cases that require a range of therapeutic and intervention skills.

LEVEL OF WORK:

Advanced

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Broad from a licensed behavioral health professional or higher-level manager or administrator.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

May provide functional supervision to lower-level counselors and other direct care providers.

LOCATION OF WORK:

May be used by all state agencies.

JOB DISTINCTIONS:

Differs from the Professional Counselor 3 and the Social Service Counselor job series by the presence of licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor or a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.

Differs from the Professional Counselor 5 and other supervisory counselor jobs by the absence of supervisory responsibilities.

Job Duties and Other Information

This clinician position provides clinical assessment and treatment of clients admitted to the inpatient residential substance use treatment facility. The clinician may evaluate and determines appropriateness of referrals/admissions when a bed becomes available. The clinician completes comprehensive biopsychosocial assessments, treatment plans, screenings, treatment/counseling via individual/family/group therapies, as well as discharge plans for patients and families as needed. The clinician also works on an interdisciplinary treatment team in order to provide thorough and comprehensive care, making recommendations for treatment plans and assisting in formulating therapeutic activities. Additionally, the clinician attend s annual and PRN trainings and webinars to improve competency in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use disorders.

Louisiana State Government represents a wide variety of career options and offers an outstanding opportunity tomake a differencethrough public service. With an array of career opportunities in every major metropolitan center and in many rural areas, state employment provides an outstanding option to begin or continue your career.

As a state employee, you will earn competitive pay, choose from a variety of benefits, and have access to a great professional development program:

Insurance Coverage More information can be found at https://info.groupbenefits.org/

Parental Leave– Up to six weeks paid parental leave

More information can be found athttps://www.civilservice.louisiana.gov/Parental-Leave/Default.aspx

Holidays and Leave – State employees receive the following paid holidays each year:

+ New Year's Day

+ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,

+ Mardi Gras,

+ Good Friday,

+ Memorial Day,

+ Independence Day,

+ Labor Day,

+ Veteran's Day,

+ Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

***** Additional holidays may be proclaimed by the Governor

State employees earn sick and annual leave which can be accumulated and saved for future use. Your accrual rate increases as your years of service increase.

Retirement – State of Louisiana employees are eligible to participate in various retirement systems (based on the type of appointment and agency for which an employee works). These retirement systems provide retirement allowances and other benefits for state officers and employees and their beneficiaries. State retirement systems may include (but are not limited to):

+ Louisiana State Employees Retirement System (www.lasersonline.org). LASERS has provided this video (https://lasersonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Your\_Retirement\_System.mp4) to give you more detailed information about their system

+ Teacher's Retirement System of Louisiana (www.trsl.org),

+ Louisiana School Employees Retirement System (www.lsers.net), among others

01

Are you currently registered as either a Licensed Professional Counselor or a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist by the Louisiana Board of Licensed Professional Counselors?

+ Yes

+ No

02

If you answered "Yes" to the question above, please indicate the following: Type of License, License #, Date Originally Issued, and Expiration Date If you answered "No" to the question above, please type "N/A" in the response below.

03

Do you have experience providing substance use treatment?

+ Yes

+ No

04

If you answered "Yes" to the question above, please list the experience in which substance use treatment were provided. NOTE: This experience must also be listed in the Work Experience section of your application. If you answered "No" to the question above, please type "N/A" in the response below.

05

Please indicate below if you have any current substance use certifications. If you currently do not have any substance use certifications, please put N/A.

06

Are you willing to work non-traditional hours?

+ Yes

+ No

Required Question

Employer

State of Louisiana

Address

For agency contact information, please refer to

the supplemental information above.

Louisiana State Civil Service, Louisiana, 70802

Phone

(866) 783-5462

Website

http://agency.governmentjobs.com/louisiana/default.cfm

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