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About the Role
The Assignment Ready Counselor (ARC) provides coverage in short-term, surge, and on-demand situations for military needs, such as post-deployment events or to cover absent counselors. This role focuses on providing the full breadth of Adult or Child and Youth Behavioral (CYB) counseling services to military service members and their families at military installations with minimal guidance. Services include non-medical counseling, training, health and wellness presentations, and consultation.
Responsibilities
- Provides non-medical, short term, solution focused, counseling directly to adults, children, and youth of service members.
- Services include assessment, brief counseling and consultation, action planning, referral to resources, and follow-up.
- Supports staff and personnel of CDCs, DoDEA and community schools, youth programs and summer camps.
- Provides parent training and guidance.
- Delivers training and health and wellness presentations.
- Participates in health fairs and other base/installation activities.
- Enters counselor activity data daily through smart phone or web application, ensuring accuracy and maintaining confidentiality.
- Creates a presence on the installation where service and family members feel comfortable approaching the counselor and recognize the program to be confidential.
- Establishes and maintains working relationships with community resources and provides appropriate linkages.
- Partners with POC to provide Adult and CYB services in a manner that addresses the needs of the installation/facility.
- Develops an excellent working relationship with the installation/facility POC.
- Manages duty to warn and restricted reporting situations according to DoD protocol and staffs cases with Regional Supervisor/Regional Director.
- Communicates with Regional Supervisors and participates in regular individual and group supervision.
- Responds to critical incidents and special requests as directed by the POC and approved by the OSD program manager.
Requirements
- Candidates must be local or willing to relocate.
- Must be licensed at the independent level as a Social Worker (LICSW, LCSW-R or LICSW-CP), Mental Health Counselor (LPC or LMHC), or Therapist (LMFT) or equivalent independent licensure.
- Willing to accept assignments of undefined periods to include weekends with short notice.
- Able to cover, on a full-time basis, assignments of varying length from a weekend to two weeks.
- Quickly builds rapport with service personnel clients, family members, students, parents and co-workers.
- Adaptable to new working conditions and varying location rules.
- Adjusts working style to align with each work environment.
- Able to work effectively with minimal instruction and guidance.
- Listens carefully to instructions provided.
- Participates in regular in-services/training, Quality Improvement committees or other contract activities as assigned with minimal notice.
- Requires ability to quickly engage and communicate with military members, spouses or children as assigned.
- Must be able to respond quickly to emergent situations in any physical location on a military installation and/or within a school setting.
- Must be able to traverse short and/or long distances within the base to both indoor and outdoor locations.
- Must be able to maneuver through rugged, outdoor or uneven locations (e.g., steep inclines, stairs, grass).
- Must be able to work in outdoor weather and other military base conditions.
- May need to comply with various site-specific requirements to work at designated locations (e.g., certain current immunizations or vaccinations).
- Ability to prove US Citizenship.
- Must be fluent in English.
- Advanced knowledge of brief therapy and solution-focused counseling methods.
- Prior military service/military family member and/or strong familiarity with military culture desired.
- For CYB positions must meet the Magellan MFLC CYB criteria for experience with children and youth and specialty in child and adolescent development/psychology.
- When working with children, counselor must abide by line of site protocol.
Skills
- Brief therapy
- Solution-focused counseling
Location
- Military installations
Work Type
- Short-term
- Surge
- On-demand
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Clinical
- Experience working in a school setting
Education Level
- Master’s Degree from an accredited graduate program in a mental health related field, or social work.
About the Company
- Magellan Health, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Tobacco-free workplace.
Equal Opportunity
- EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled.