Assignment Readiness Counselor - Short Term or On Demands
RemoteUnited States
United StatesRemotePart TimeMasters DegreeLarge
Part TimeMasters DegreeLarge
Job Summary
Provide short-term, solution-focused counseling to military service members, their families, and students across adult, child, and youth behavioral settings. Deliver non-medical assessments, brief interventions, action planning, and resource linkage while managing restricted reporting and duty-to-warn protocols per DoD standards. Support school-based programs, summer camps, and readiness centers with minimal oversight, adapting quickly to varying locations, weather conditions, and emergent incidents. Enter daily activity data via mobile or web applications to maintain accurate reporting and confidentiality.
Required Qualifications
- Must hold an independent license in any state, such as LCSW, LPC, LMFT
- Other Job Requirements Responsibilities 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
- 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
- For example, for some assignments, counselors will need to have certain current immunizations or vaccinations and provide record of receipt
- Ability to prove US Citizenship
- must be fluent in English
- 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
- Current licensure required for this position that meets State, Commonwealth or customer-specific requirements
- Care MgmtCare Mgmt, DL - Driver License, Valid In State
- Must be an independently licensed behavioral health clinician
Desired Qualifications
- 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
- Magellan MFLC CYB criteria for experience with children and youth
- specialty in child and adolescent development/psychology
- Care MgmtCare Mgmt, LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor
- Care MgmtCare Mgmt, Must be an independently licensed behavioral health clinician
- This is a Service Contract Act (SCA) covered position
- The pay rate and health and welfare allowance are specified in the applicable wage determination agreement
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