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Counselor - Psychological Services - PRN

Job Description

Best in Class Work Environment

  • 5x Modern Healthcare Best Places to work
  • America’s Greatest Workplaces 2023 – Newsweek
  • Greatest Workplace for Women 2023, 2024 – Newsweek
  • Greatest Workplaces for Diversity 2024 – Newsweek
  • Best Employers for New Grads 2023 – Forbes
  • Best Employers by State – Missouri – 2023 – Forbes
  • Benefits
    • Free and convenient parking
    • CoxHealth Fitness Center and Child Care discounts
    • Cafeteria Discount
    • Onsite delivery for CoxHealth Pharmacies and 1906 Employee Store
  • Job Summary
    • Licensed, or license-eligible clinician with experience providing clinical diagnostic and treatment services which can include individual, group, family, and health and behavior interventions. The clinician will conduct a variety of psychosocial assessments and provide care for patients through therapeutic use of self and/or the patient care/problem solving process to assist the patient and family to achieve basic healthcare goals. The clinician is a member of an interdisciplinary team that is responsible for working collaboratively with providers, nurses, leadership and other team members to ensure development and implementation of appropriate standards. May be asked to provide clinical coverage in other areas of the hospital, consistent with training and experience guidelines and needs to have flexibility in traveling between two hospitals 30 minutes apart. As need is derived by the department, the clinician may be asked to provide program consultation, staff education, and/or supervision and training.
  • Job Requirements
    • Education
      • Required: Masters Degree in a related field of counseling services
    • Experience
      • Preferred: 1-2 yrs. experience with wide variety of patient populations
    • Skills
      • Ability to work within scope of practice to help patient achieve highest level of quality possible for psychological well-being
      • Knowledge of community resources to help meet patient needs
      • Ability to work independently & collaboratively in teams
    • Licensure/Certification/Registration
      • Required: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), LMFT, LCSW Licensure, LMSW, or provisional license with completed degree requirements and active plan for full licensure.

Why CoxHealth?

We are a health system that includes six hospitals with over 80 clinics and 537 physicians serving 24 counties. CoxHealth is Missouri’s first hospital system accredited by DNV Healthcare for quality and patient safety. All six hospitals, as well as our outpatient centers and provider-based clinics, hold this national distinction from DNV’s accreditation program, the National Integrated Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The hospital is also the only facility in the region to receive the ANCC Magnet designation, which recognizes excellence in nursing. We are the only local health system named six times to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Regional Hospitals list, and we are recognized by CareChex as among the Top 10 percent of U.S. hospitals for medical excellence and patient safety in overall medical care.