MFLC Assignment Readiness Counselor
Location
Virginia
Posted
4 hours ago
Salary
Not specified
Postgraduate DegreeEnglish
Job Description
• Provide coverage in short-term, surge and on demand situations resulting from the Military needs.
• Provide the full breadth of Adult or Child and Youth Behavioral (CYB) counseling services to military service members and their families.
• Enter counselor activity data daily through smart phone or web application.
• Provides training and health and wellness presentations.
Job 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.
- Advanced knowledge of brief therapy and solution-focused counseling methods.
- 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
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
