Magellan Health

Assignment Readiness Counselor

Magellan Health

part-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Unity

About the role

  • Provide coverage in short-term, surge and on demand situations for military needs such as post-deployment events or to cover absent counselors.
  • Provide full breadth of Adult or Child and Youth Behavioral (CYB) counseling services to military service members and their families at installations.
  • Provide non-medical counseling, training/health and wellness presentations, consultation with parents, daycare centers and schools, and consultation to installation command regarding behavioral health issues.
  • CYB counselors may be assigned to DoDEA schools, community schools, youth programs, summer camps, and require school experience for school backup roles.
  • ARC adult counselors may support MFLC services in military community and readiness centers, and on-demand and surge assignments.
  • Work closely with installation and military branch Points of Contact (POC) to assure program scope and meet installation needs.
  • Provide assessment, brief counseling, consultation, action planning, referral to resources and follow-up as indicated.
  • CYB counselors support CDCs, DoDEA and community schools, youth programs and summer camps, and provide parent training and guidance.
  • Provide training and health and wellness presentations, participate in health fairs and base activities.
  • Enter counselor activity data daily through smartphone or web application, maintaining confidentiality and anonymity of service/family member.
  • Manage duty to warn and restricted reporting situations according to DoD protocol and staff cases with Regional Supervisor/Regional Director.
  • Respond to critical incidents and special requests as directed by the POC and approved by the OSD program manager.

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.
  • With minimal notice, participates in regular in-services/training, Quality Improvement committees or other contract activities as assigned.
  • 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.
  • Counselors may need to comply with various site-specific requirements to work at designated locations; e.g., certain current immunizations or vaccinations and provide record of receipt.
  • 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.
  • Current licensure required that meets State, Commonwealth or customer-specific requirements - Must be an independently licensed behavioral health clinician.
  • Driver License, Valid In State.
  • LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor.