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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

210631-PC4-FTC

Department

LDH-Florida Parishes Human Services Authority

Opening Date

07/15/2025

Closing Date

7/22/2025 11:59 PM Central

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About this Job

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 recovery by providing person-centered services to adults and children who meet the treatment criteria for substance use disorders, developmental disabilities, and/or mental health.

Join our team at Florida Parishes Human Services Authority as a Professional Counselor and provide clinical assessment and treatment to clients in our inpatient, 24-hour residential facility. This facility is an ASAM Level III.5 Adult Clinically Managed High Intensity, residential substance use treatment program, located in Mandeville, Louisiana.

If you're driven, collaborative, passionate, and ready to make an impact—this could be the opportunity for you!

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

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

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be foundhere.

Job Duties and Other Information

Job Duties:

As a Professional Counselor, you will be instrumental in providing clinical assessment and treatment of clients admitted to the inpatient residential substance use treatment facility. Your role will be to:

+ Complete biopsychosocial assessments, treatment plans, screenings, treatment/counseling via individual/family/group therapies;

+ Provide discharge plans for patients and families, as needed;

+ Work on an interdisciplinary treatment team in order to provide thorough and comprehensive care;

+ Make recommendations for treatment plans and assist in formulating therapeutic activities;

+ Attend annual and PRN trainings and webinars to improve competency in assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use disorders

Position-Specific Details:

Appointment Type:Probational

Career Progression: This position will be filled as a Professional Counselor 4

Compensation: The following rate is a Special Entrance Rate (SER) established for this agency in this job title.

+ Professional Counselor 4: $24.35/hour minimum - $40.53/hour maximum

Louisiana is a State As a Model Employer (SAME) that supports the recruitment, hiring, and retention of individuals with disabilities.

How To Apply:

No Civil Service test scoreis 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.

*Information to support your eligibility for this job title must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumeswill notbe accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

Contact Information:

For additional information about this vacancy, please contact:

Emily Barthelemy

Florida Parishes Human Services Authority

835 Pride Drive, Suite B, Hammond, LA 70401

[email protected]

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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