Assignment Ready Counselor
Magellan Health
part-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Ohio • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Provides 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 the full breadth of Adult or Child and Youth Behavioral (CYB) counseling services to military service members and their families at military installations.
- These services may include non-medical counseling, training/health and wellness presentations, consultation with parents, personnel at child daycare centers and schools, and consultation to installation command regarding behavioral health issues affecting military personnel and their family members.
- CYB counselors will also have a focus on supporting the staff and personnel of CDCs, DoDEA and community schools, youth programs and summer camps as well as providing parent training and guidance.
- Provides training and health and wellness presentations, participate in health fairs and other base/installation activities.
- Enters counselor activity data daily through smart phone or web application assure that reporting is accurate from assigned installation while maintaining confidentiality and anonymity of service / family member.
Requirements
- Master’s Degree from an accredited graduate program in a mental health related field, or social work.
- With short notice, willing to accept assignments of undefined periods to include weekends.
- 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.
- 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
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- Tobacco-free workplace
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Master’s Degree in mental healthMaster’s Degree in social workbrief therapysolution-focused counselingchild and adolescent developmentpsychology
Soft skills
builds rapportadaptableeffective communicationlistens carefullyengages quicklyresponds to emergent situations
Certifications
Magellan MFLC CYB criteria