In-Home Behavioral Health Counselor

The Pokagon Band Behavioral Health team is growing! We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Behavioral Health Counselor. Our stellar benefits package includes 15 paid holidays, generous PTO, premium health insurance with low co-pay and deductible, retirement plans, and more! We provide a vehicle for travel and support for licensure renewal and continuing education.  

Commitment to Citizen Service 

Service encompasses all aspects of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indian’s governmental operations.  Every employee shares the responsibility to provide exemplary service, dignity, and respect to all Tribal Citizens, the Tribal Council, and staff members.  To this end, all employees have an obligation to identify and report any service problems, issues, or concerns and through designated channels, initiate, recommend, and actively participate in solutions.  

Position Summary:  Provide home-based family services, including counseling, crisis intervention, skill building, advocacy, and advise and facilitate patient focused counseling within the Integrative Care Model. Guide individuals served through the available programs with a focus on quality care and personal attention to patient needs. This position will specifically service women of childbearing age at risk for or involved with opioid and or stimulant abuse, and their infants and children, to include those mother/infants/families that may be actively involved with CPS, who relate to evidence based high quality services across the continuum of prevention to recovery support.  

 Essential Functions: 

• Counsel patients, individually or in family sessions in the home, to assist in overcoming dependencies, adjusting to life, or making changes.  
• Screen for DSM-IV-TR diagnosis, test and assess mental and behavioral health and substance abuse and dependence.
• Coordinate counseling efforts for the Healthy Start Home Visiting program, specifically servicing those mothers who are affected with Post-Partum Depression and/or anxiety.
• Provide intensive case management services to pregnant women with identified/or at risk for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), and/or Stimulant Use Disorder (SUD), mother-infant dyads with a Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) or Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOW) at birth and families caring for NAS/NOW/OUD/SUD infants
• Advocate for patients for the protection of their rights and entitlements as recipients of services and as persons eligible for services.
• Collaborate with patients and family members to develop treatment plans based on research, clinical experience, and client histories focused on outcome-oriented factors.
• Explore options and set goals with patient and team of providers; connect patient with Tribal, State, and Federal Governmental services with the goal of achieving positive outcomes.
• Assure provided behavioral health services are complementary and deliver the coordinated synergies to achieve positive outcomes for each individual served. Assure services are: patient-centered, empower the patient, culturally appropriate, flexible, focus on strengths of the patient, normalized and incorporated into natural support systems of the patient, meet special needs and are consistent and accountable to the individual being served.
• Coordinate counseling efforts with mental health professionals or other health professionals, such as doctors, nurses, or social workers.  
• Chart progress throughout treatment and maintain progress notes. Prepare reports and enter data into computerized and physical Pokagon Band record keeping systems.
• Plan follow-up or aftercare programs for patients to be discharged from programs.
• Participate in weekly team staffing meetings, integrative treatment team meetings, individual supervision, and case conferences as needed.
• Assess and assist with various emergency mental health or behavioral health crisis situations where patients or other individuals may be at risk of hurting themselves or others.
• Attend events throughout and beyond service delivery area to provide program services education in the community and improve referral sourcing.
• Collaborate with outside providers, school systems, outside governmental bodies (DHHS, Legal, etc.).
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications and researching governmental rulings. Maintain required continual Education credits to maintain required licensures.

 Non-Essential Functions: 

• Appear in court when required or request to act as expert testimony.
• Participate at cultural events to promote services and/or assist in crises at events or in community.
• Perform other related functions as assigned.

 Equipment: 

• Standard office equipment.  
• Systems used:  MS Office Applications, Internet, Electronic Medical Records 

 Position Requirements:  

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, or related behavioral science discipline required. Degree must be from an accredited institution whose program of study has been recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or the United States Department of Education.
• Licensed Professional Counselor or Mental Health Professional credentials in the state of Michigan, Indiana, or another state with the ability to meet qualifications for licensing in Michigan if license is in another state preferred. Individuals with limited license will be considered if they are working towards licensure with the understanding that full licensure is achieved within24months.Supervisionavailablefor limited license providers to meet state requirements. 
• Minimum of one (1) year recent experience providing counseling services directly to individuals with preference in home-based services, including family crisis intervention.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Ability to alleviate stress and anxiety and be supportive of persons and work tactfully, collaboratively, diplomatically and with highest level of confidentiality required.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills required. 
• Proficiency with MS Office applications preferred.
• Experience working with Native American communities; knowledge of Native American traditional practices and values and Native American issues preferred.

 Indian Preference 

• Pokagon Band Preference Code applies.

 Physical Requirements:  

• Use of office equipment, such as computers, fax, and copiers. 
• Ability to perform a range of physical motions, including but not limited to: sitting for long periods of time, standing, walking, driving, and climbing stairs.
• Frequently required to talk and hear. 

 Work environment: 

• Work is performed primarily in patient homes.
• Requires working flexible hours, including evenings, occasional weekends and holidays.
• Requires extensive use of Tribal vehicle to travel to patient homes and throughout the community.
• Involves potential exposure to tobacco smoke, domestic animals, household pests, and other conditions common to domestic environments.

 Competencies: 

• Adaptability
• Fostering Communication
• Teamwork
• Acting with Empathy and Compassion
• Exemplifying Integrity