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Geisinger
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania

Licensed Professional Counselor - Pediatric Outpatient

CounselorNo weekendsNo nightsFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Location: Geisinger Pediatrics Bloomsburg

Shift: Days (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Worker Type

Regular

Exemption Status

Yes

Job Summary

$7500 Signing Bonus, if eligible; Full Time; In-Person; Monday – Friday; Days 8am – 4:30pm; REQUIRES: Active Pennsylvania Professional Counselor (LPC) licensure. Pediatric focused, previous pediatric experience strongly preferred.

Job Duties

Assesses patient needs and abilities and develops treatment plans to facilitate improved patient functioning/symptom resolution. Provides individual, family, couple and group psychotherapy as deemed clinically appropriate. Participates with program planning with the psychiatry team and other applicable team members.

Evaluates the ongoing biopsychosocial needs of patients, identifying needs and problems and determining a treatment plan.

Provides psychotherapies and case management to assigned patients as well as input regarding the care of program patients.

Engages as a primary therapist or co-therapist in group therapy to psychiatric patients and as the primary therapist in individual, family, and couple therapies.

  • Obtains pertinent data in accordance with program and regulatory standards.
  • Upholds agency policies and standards as well as ethical standards of appropriate discipline.
  • Collaborates with outpatient and inpatient teams to provide triage evaluation and crisis intervention.

Work is typically performed in a clinical environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive.

They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. Additional competencies and skills outlined in any department-specific orientation will be considered essential to the performance of the job related to that position.

Position Details

  • Caring for your health and well-being.
  • Full benefits (health, dental and vision) starting on day one
  • Three medical plan choices, including an expanded network for out-of-area employees and dependents
  • Pre-tax savings plans with healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) and a health savings account (HSA) with employer contribution
  • Company-paid life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage
  • 401(k) plan that includes automatic Geisinger contribution
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) plan that allows you to accrue time quickly
  • Up to $5,000 in tuition reimbursement per calendar year
  • MyHealth Rewards wellness program to improve your health while earning a financial incentive

Family-friendly support including adoption and fertility assistance, parental leave pay, military leave pay and a free Care.com membership with discounted backup care for your loved ones

Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Referrals for childcare, eldercare, & pet care. Access free legal guidance, mental health visits, work-life support, digital self-help tools and more

Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, identity theft protection, universal life and pet and legal insurance

Education

Master's Degree-Social Sciences (Required)

Experience

Certification(s) and License(s)

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - Default Issuing Body

Skills

OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

  • KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
  • EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
  • LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
  • INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
  • SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.

We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all.

We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.

Key Responsibilities

The counselor assesses patient needs to develop and implement individualized treatment plans including psychotherapy and case management. They also collaborate with the psychiatry team to provide triage evaluations and crisis intervention in a clinical setting.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an active Pennsylvania Professional Counselor (LPC) license and a Master's degree in Social Sciences. Previous pediatric experience is strongly preferred for this role.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Treatment planningFamily therapyIndividual therapyBiopsychosocial assessmentPediatric counselingClinical documentationRegulatory compliance

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Licensed Professional Counselor - Pediatric Outpatient at Geisinger a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 35% of all Pediatrics counselor listings evaluated on our platform. Contributing factors include no weekend requirements, no night shifts.

Pediatrics — Counselor Career Context

Of the 50 active Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) listings this role was benchmarked against, 46% are remote, 12% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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  • No weekends
  • No nights
  • On-site

Living in Bloomsburg

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$255k
Median resident rent
$980/mo
Residents’ average commute
15 min
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Geisinger

Hospitals and Health Care
Danville, Pa.
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Signing bonus $7,500
Health, dental, and vision insurance starting day one
Three medical plan choices
Pre-tax savings plans (FSA, HSA with employer contribution)
Company-paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
401(k) plan with automatic Geisinger contribution
Generous paid time off (PTO)
Up to $5,000 tuition reimbursement per calendar year