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Senior Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor
Veterans Health Administration · Shreveport, Louisiana · Closes in 6 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: Federal employees - Competitive service, The public, Internal to an agency, Federal employees - Excepted service.
This job is open to U.S. citizens, nationals, and people who owe allegiance to the U.S. It is open to current permanent VA Nationwide employees, federal employees of other agencies, VHA health professions trainees if applicable, and U.S. citizens. Veterans' preference applies to applicants outside the agency's current employees.
Experience: You need at least one year of progressively complex licensed professional mental health counselor experience equivalent to GS-11. You also need five years of experience after licensure that shows advanced practice skills and judgment, and you must be licensed to supervise trainees or unlicensed counselors.
Education: You must hold 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, community, gerontology, and marital, couple and family counseling.
Licenses and certifications:
- Full, current, unrestricted license to independently practice as a Licensed Professional Mental Health Counselor, 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 6 days (November 9, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
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 qualifications, based on your application, resume and supporting documents. The agency verifies your information and does not assume experience, so describe your duties clearly. Errors or missing information may affect your rating.
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:
- Your resume must show each job's title, duties, start and end dates by month and year, and hours worked per week.
- If you use education to qualify, attach a transcript and confirm your degree is from a CACREP-accredited program.
- If you want EDRP, plan to submit that application within four months of appointment and contact desiree.jackson@va.gov with questions.
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