Counselor Psych Services WEO (N)

Facility:

Medical South: 3525 S National Ave, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807

Department:

1114 Psychological Services SGF

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

24

Hours:

Friday, Saturday, Sunday 8:30 to 5:00

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:

 

• Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times.

• Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group. 

• Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.

• Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).

 

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)  

• For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth

Job Description:

The Counselor is a Clinician who assumes responsibility and accountability for a patient or group of patients for a designated time frame. Will conduct a variety of psychosocial assessments and provides care for these 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 counselor is a member of an interdisciplinary team that is responsible for working collaboratively with the medical director & clinic manager to ensure development and implementation of appropriate standards. Needs to have flexibility in traveling between two hospitals 30 minutes apart.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: Current Licensure as a Social Worker [LCSW or LMSW], Licensed Professional Counselor [LPC], Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Psychologist [PhD or PsyD] or application for provisional license with completed degree requirements of the previous. Provisional license must be obtained within 120 days of employment.