Licensed Counselor (LCSW or LPC)

Responsibilities

This position will be a hybrid position with ½ of the position being a Counselor supporting the Community Support Team and ½ of the position being a Counselor at the 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. 

The responsibilities for the Counselor position include but are not limited to the following:

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

□         Conducts face-to-face comprehensive assessments to identify problems and service needs.

□         Writes treatment plans to meet third party payer requirements, regulatory guidelines, and individuals needs which are clear, concise, grammatically correct, timely and properly coded.

□         Provides risk assessment and crisis intervention.

□         Facilitates the admission process and maintains communication with referral sources, families, patients and unit staff. 

□         Writes timely progress notes that relate directly to the treatment outcomes. 

□         Modifies treatment plans based on new developments and needs identified by the individual. 

□         Provides crisis intervention services to individuals as needed.  May provide services during non-traditional hours as indicated by program needs.

□         May perform some case management duties to facilitate and ensure communication, linkage, and continuity of care between individuals, physicians, other organizational components, community resources and service providers. 

□         Develops and maintains cooperative working relationships with community service providers and other program components

□         Participates in ongoing training

Minimum Qualifications

Fully licensed as an LPC or LCSW, or Associate Licensed as an LAPC or LMSW