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Licensed Counselor

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Pathways Center

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The Licensed Counselor role is a hybrid position with half of the time working with the Community Support Team and the other half of the time working at Pathways Center’s Care Campus in Newnan.

Pathways Center’s Community Support Team (CST) is an intensive behavioral health service for individuals with severe mental illness. CST Staff support individuals in decreasing hospitalizations, incarcerations, emergency room visits, and crisis episodes and increasing community tenure/independent functioning; increasing time working or with social contacts; and increasing personal satisfaction and autonomy. CST is a restorative/recovery focused intervention to assist individuals with gaining access to necessary services; managing their psychiatric and/or substance abuse disorder and physical diseases; developing optimal independent community living skills; achieving a stable living arrangement; and setting and attaining individual-defined recovery goals.

Pathways Center’s Care Campus is located in Newnan, GA and has two 24/7 Crisis Stabilization Units (CSU’s); one for adults and one for children ages 5-17. Pathways Center's Crisis Stabilization Units (CSU's) are short term (2-7 days), medically monitored crisis residential programs, which offer services for a limited duration to stabilize mental health disorders, provide detoxification services, evaluate treatment options, and develop long-term recovery/treatment plans. Pathways Center’s Care Campus is designed to serve as a first line of community-based alternative care to hospitalization, offering psychiatric stabilization and detoxification services on a short-term basis. Interventions are provided by licensed behavioral health professionals designed to prevent out of community treatment or hospitalization.

Responsibilities for the Licensed Counselor will include but not be limited to the following:

• Provides patients/clients with the psychosocial and therapeutic support needed to cope with behavioral health crisis and/or detoxification

• Completes Behavioral Health Assessments (BHA's) as a part of the intake process within the required timeframes. Conducts clinical interviews with the residents and is able to make a diagnostic impression based on clinical assessment

• Works with other healthcare team members to prepare for and facilitate individual and group discussions on the unit with patients/clients to promote and reinforce the recovery process

• Provides individual therapy and may conduct family sessions as needed to help facilitate a successful transition back into the community

• Develops treatment plans collaboratively with the patient/client and input from all treatment team members

• Provides professional level therapeutic services to persons with mental illness and/or addictive disease

• Works alongside EMS personnel in the Coweta Cares program

• Provides risk assessment and crisis intervention

• F acilitates the admission process and maintains communication with referral sources, families, patients and Care Campus healthcare team

• Must be proficient in use of technology with respect to use of Electronic Medical Record.

Master's degree in social work and counseling from an accredited college or university and licensure in the area of assignment and two (2) years of experience at the lower level Social Worker, Licensed 2 (HCP051) or position equivalent; or Master's degree in social work and counseling from an accredited college or university and licensure in the area of assignment and two (2) years of related post-license experience.

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+ Requisition ID: HEA0ACU

+ Number of Openings: 1

+ Shift: Day Job

+ Posting End Date: Nov 2, 2025