Counselor
Magellan Health
part-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Kenova • Virginia, West Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Provides the full breadth of Adult or Child and Youth Behavioral (CYB) counseling services to military service members and their families at military installations.
- Services 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.
- May be assigned to DoDEA schools, community schools, youth programs, summer camps, and on demand assignments.
- Works closely with the installation and military branch Points of Contact (POC) to assure that the program meets the needs of the installation.
- Provides non-medical, short-term, solution-focused counseling directly to adults, children, and youth of service members.
- Participates in health fairs and other base/installation activities.
- Enters counselor activity data daily through smart phone or web application to 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.
- 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.
- Requires ability to quickly engage and communicate with military members, spouses or children as assigned.
- Must 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
- Current licensure required for this position that meets State, Commonwealth or customer-specific requirements
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- Valid In State Driver License
- Must be an independently licensed behavioral health clinician
- This is a Service Contract Act (SCA) covered position.
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 quickly