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About the Role
The Assignment Ready Counselor (ARC) provides non-medical, short-term, solution-focused counseling services to military service members and their families in various settings, including on-demand events, surges, summer camps, and backfills for the MFLC program. This role supports Adult or Child and Youth Behavioral (CYB) counseling services, training, and consultations.
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.
- Builds rapport with service personnel clients, family members, students, parents and co-workers.
- Adapts to new working conditions and varying location rules.
- Works effectively with minimal instruction and guidance.
- Listens carefully to instructions.
- Participates in regular in-services/training, Quality Improvement committees or other contract activities as assigned.
- Establishes and maintains working relationships with community resources and provides appropriate linkages.
- Partners with POC to provide Adult and CYB services.
- Develops an excellent working relationship with the installation/facility POC.
- Manages duty to warn and restricted reporting situations according to DoD protocol.
- Communicates with Regional Supervisors and participates in regular individual and group supervision.
- Responds to critical incidents and special requests as directed.
Requirements
- Must be licensed at the independent level in any state as a Mental Health Counselor, Therapist, or Social Worker.
- Willing to accept assignments of undefined periods, including weekends, with short notice.
- Able to cover assignments of varying length, from a weekend to two weeks, on a full-time basis.
- Requires ability to quickly engage and communicate with military members, spouses or children.
- 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, such as certain current immunizations or vaccinations.
- Ability to prove US Citizenship.
- Must be fluent in English.
- For CYB positions, must meet the Magellan MFLC CYB criteria for experience with children and youth and specialty in child and adolescent development/psychology.
- Must abide by line of sight protocol when working with children.
- Must understand, comply with and attest to security responsibilities and security controls unique to their position.
- Must comply with all applicable legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and internal policies and procedures.
Skills
- Advanced knowledge of brief therapy and solution-focused counseling methods.
- Experience working in a school setting (for ARC roles backing up school positions).
- Prior military service/military family member and/or strong familiarity with military culture desired.
- Ability to quickly engage and communicate with military members, spouses or children.
- Ability to work effectively with minimal instruction and guidance.
- Ability to listen carefully to instructions.
Location
- Any state
Work Type
- Full-time
- On Demand Events
- Surges
- Summer Camps
- Backfills
Experience Level
- Clinical
Education Level
- Master's Degree from an accredited graduate program in a mental health related field, or social work.
- Master's - Behavioral Health
- Master's - 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.