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Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor (BHIP MHTC) – EDRP Approved
Veterans Health Administration · Corpus Christi, Texas · Closes in 3 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Internal to an agency, Federal employees - Excepted service, Federal employees - Competitive service, The public.
You must be a U.S. citizen to apply. The announcement is also open to current permanent federal employees and to current or former VA Health Profession Trainee program participants.
Experience: For the GS-11 level, you need at least 1 year of mental health counseling experience after your master's or doctoral degree, from VA or non-VA work, showing skills such as crisis intervention, evidence-based treatment, and leading therapy groups. The GS-9 entry level does not list a required amount of experience, but you must show the entry-level skills in the announcement.
Education: A master's or doctoral degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling, or a related field from a program accredited by CACREP (Council on Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs). Related fields include Addiction Counseling, Community Counseling, Gerontology Counseling, and Marital, Couple, and Family Counseling. Traditional rehabilitation counseling programs do not qualify.
Licenses and certifications:
- Full, current, and unrestricted Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor license allowing independent practice, including diagnosis and treatment
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 3 days (November 6, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
This job will close once 50 applications are received, which may happen before the official closing date.
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: You will be rated on how well you meet the listed qualifications, based on your application, resume, and supporting documents, which will be verified. Missing information or errors may lower your rating or make you ineligible, so answer the online questionnaire fully and clearly.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Submit a long-form resume or CV that shows your dates of experience and any licenses clearly.
- If you use a pending license, note that it is only accepted at the GS-9 level with up to a 3-year appointment.
- If you use education to qualify, send your transcript and confirm your program is CACREP-accredited.
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