**Join the team at Avera!** **Award Winning Health Care:** Avera has been named among the nation’s 15 Top Health Systems, Forbes list of America’s Best-in-State Employers and Level 10 Most Wired Health Care Organization by CHIME. **Culture:** Be part of a multidisciplinary team built on teamwork, with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter. **You Belong at Avera:** Competitive pay, front-loaded PTO and options for free health insurance, Student Loan Repayment Program, various shifts to fit your lifestyle and opportunities for career growth. **Exciting opportunity to join Avera as a Behavioral Health Counselor!** **_Position Highlights:_** + **Compensation:** Immediately, Avera starts you with great wages, excellent benefits including health, dental, paid time off, and generous retirement. + **Student Loan Repayment:** This position may be eligible for Avera’s Student Loan Repayment Program, which helps you pay off your loans and save money. Each month an extra payment of $167 (up to $10,000) from Avera will help pay down your principal balance faster. + **Positive Work Environment:** Be part of an organization where we practice the mission in our daily operations. + Great employees are our best investment here at **Avera!** Let us help **you** keep growing while being a part of the **Avera team!** **Job Summary** Coordinates all outpatient counseling services, activity assess call, walk-ins, ER patients for service level need and diagnosis. Make clinical service recommendations to callers and physicians. Provides community, regional information and referred services. **Education and/or Experience** + Bachelors Degree and three years relevant experience, or a Masters Degree and one year of relevant experience required. **Licensure/Certification/Registration** + Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW or + Licensed Professional Counselor Required **Work Schedule** + Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm; 72 hours every 2 weeks **Pay** The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. + $27.50 - $41.50 per hour What Makes Avera Special? (http://www.avera.org/careers/what-makes-avera-special/) The policy of Avera to provide opportunities for all qualified employees or applicants without regard to disability and to provide reasonable accommodations for all employees or applicants who may be disabled. Avera is committed to ensuring compliance in accordance with the Americans with Disability Act. For assistance, please contact HR Now at 605-504-4444. Additional Notices: For TTY, dial 711 Avera is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer: Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity.