Military and Family Life Counselor – Assignment Ready Counselor

Role Overview

• Provide short-term support to the MFLC program either working on a base with military members and their families or in local schools with high populations of military families attending.
• The Assignment Ready Counselor (ARC) will provide coverage in short-term, surge and on demand situations resulting from the Military needs such as a post-deployment event or to cover an existing assignment for counselors who are absent.
• 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 (assuring linkage as appropriate), and follow-up as indicated.
• Provides training and health and wellness presentations, participate in health fairs and other base/installation activities.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree from an accredited graduate program in a mental health related field, or social work.
• Can 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, varying location rules, etc.; adjusts working style to align with each work environment.
• Able to work effectively with minimal instruction and guidance.
• Listens carefully to instructions provided.
• Requires ability to quickly engage and communicate with military members, spouses or children as assigned, in order to accomplish job functions, and to respond quickly to emergent situations in any physical location on a military installation and/or within a school setting, which includes the need to traverse short and/or long distances within the base to both indoor and outdoor locations, to maneuver through rugged, outdoor or uneven locations (e.g., steep inclines, stairs, grass), and work in outdoor weather and other military base conditions.
• Due to the nature of working on military installations or related worksites, counselors may need to comply with various site-specific requirements to work at designated locations.
• Ability to prove US Citizenship and 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.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities