Since 1923, Commonwealth Catholic Charities (CCC) has provided life-changing human services to vulnerable individuals and families throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia. CCC offers quality and compassionate human services to all people, especially the most vulnerable, regardless of faith. We are passionate about the work we do in our communities, providing 31 critical services at 11 locations throughout Virginia.

Summary: This position provides individual, marital, family, and group counseling services to adults and children to help them achieve effective personal, marital, and family development.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Interviews clients to assess their situation and develops appropriate treatment plans.
• Conducts individual, couples, family, and group counseling sessions.
• Prepares and maintains case files, reports, both written and through the electronic health record system, to ensure proper client care and compliance with state licensing, certification, and insurance standards.
• Refers clients to community organizations (clinics, shelters, etc.) as appropriate.
• Stays current in licensure and clinical training through completion and documentation of annual training hours; completes a minimum of 15 hours per year including 12 hours per year of training specific to the Batterer’s Intervention Program; meets regularly with the clinical supervisor for supervision.
• Ensures program quality and compliance with Council of Accreditation standards and Batterers Intervention Program standards.
• Maintains positive working relationships with referral sources and responds to inquiries in a timely manner, providing records and progress reports on clients, as required.
• Participates in marketing through presentations, workshops, and networking.
• Occasional day travel may be required to perform these functions.
• Assists in the review of client charts and records.
• Administers client surveys, questionnaires, and testing, as appropriate.
• Collects money, records payments, and works cooperatively with accounting, as needed.
• Monitors and completes pre-authorizations for insurance companies in a timely and thorough manner.
• Attends program and agency meetings and follows policies and procedures.
• Follows guidelines of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) in the handling of and releasing of client’s personal information and medical records.
• Assists the clinical supervisor in training and guidance of counseling interns.
• Maintains a cooperative and flexible attitude.
• Testifies in court cases when subpoenaed.
• Occasional day travel may be required to facilitate groups off-site and perform school counseling services.
• Represents the Agency in the community and workplace in a professional and ethical manner.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal, decision-making, problem-solving, oral, and written skills.
• Utilizes basic knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.

Qualifications: 

Education and/or Experience:

• Master’s Degree required with two years of related experience.
• Experience facilitating domestic violence groups is preferred but not required.
• Bilingual preferred.