About the Position

This is full-performance professional work in providing services and assistance to client populations with problems in a range of areas (e.g., substance abuse, emotional, behavioral, or related problems). This is a full performance level professional counseling position responsible for providing assessment, individual, group, and/or family counseling services, case management, and referral/linkage to care. The incumbent must have and maintain an active and valid professional counseling license issued by the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists, Maryland Board of Social Work, or other professional board.

About the Agency

Examples of Work

• Performs the full range of counseling assignments.
• Plans, coordinates, and reviews the training of subordinate-level counselors, volunteers, and practicum students.
• Provides direct individual, family, and/or group counseling for clients with varying emotional and/or substance abuse problems.
• May assign or assist in the assignment of cases to each counselor.
• May assist the center director in the compilation of various data, reports, and forms.
• May assist the center director in assessing staff training needs and helping to implement a staff training program.
• Conducts intake interviews, obtains an extensive client history, determines clients' strengths and weaknesses, and develops suitable treatment plans and goals.
• Maintains case files with appropriate forms, evaluations, and other records of client progress for supervisory review.
• Provides crisis intervention to prospective and current clients.
• Provides community outreach services.
• Attends periodic staff meetings to discuss procedural and administrative developments and difficult or unusual cases.
• May be required to use automated equipment in conjunction with assigned duties and responsibilities.
• Willingly and cooperatively performs tasks and duties that may not be specifically listed in the class specification or position description, but within the general occupational category and responsibility level typically associated with the employee's class of work.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Master's or Doctoral degree in Counseling, Social Work, or Psychology with a minimum of 2,000 hours of supervised clinical experience in professional counseling. Of the 2,000 hours, 1,000 shall be acquired after the doctoral degree has been awarded.
• Achieve a passing score on the National Counselors Examination of the National Board for Certified Counselors and the State Law Test
• A candidate placed in this classification must be licensed as a Graduate Professional Counselor by the Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists. In accordance with Health Occupations Title 17 and Code of Maryland Regulations 10.58.01.09.
  
  Must possess one of the following licenses/certifications:
  LCPC: Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor
  LGPC: Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor
  LCADC: Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor
  LGADC: Licensed Graduate Alcohol and Drug Counselor
  LCSW-C: Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical
  LCSW: Licensed Certified Social Worker
  LMSW: Licensed Masters Social Worker
  LCP: Licensed Clinical Psychologist

• Have and maintain an active and valid professional certification or counseling license issued by the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists (BOPC) or Maryland Board of Social Work, in the performance of the duties outlined above (LCADC, LMSW, LCSW, LCSW-C, LGPC, LCPC).
• Have experience completing diagnostic assessments and determining the appropriate level of care for treatment.
• Have experience providing individual and group counseling and therapy.
• Have experience working in a hospital or behavioral health clinical setting.
• At least 2 years working in the substance use disorders field.

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