Assignment Ready Counselor MFLC

About the role

The positions require you to be licensed at an independent practice level in the state of Rhode Island as a LICSW (Social Worker), LMHC (Mental Health Counselor), or LMFT (Therapist).

Responsibilities

• Provide coverage in short-term, surge, and on-demand situations resulting from military needs.
• Cover assignments during the May 15th through September 15th time period, coinciding with the school summer break.
• Provide full breadth of Adult or Child and Youth Behavioral (CYB) counseling services to military service members and their families at military installations.
• Engage in non-medical, short-term, solution-focused, counseling directly to adults, children, and youth of service members.
• Assist with training and health and wellness presentations, participate in health fairs, and other base/installation activities.
• Enter counselor activity data daily through smart phone or web application, ensuring accurate reporting while maintaining confidentiality and anonymity.
• Work closely with the installation and military branch Points of Contact (POC) to ensure the program is provided within scope and meets the needs of the installation.
• Quickly build rapport with service personnel clients, family members, students, parents, and co-workers.
• Adapt to new working conditions, varying location rules, and adjust working style to align with each work environment.
• Work effectively with minimal instruction and guidance, listen carefully to instructions, and participate in regular in-services/training.
• Communicate with Regional Supervisors and participate in regular individual and group supervision, sharing information regarding trends and issues on the installations and in facilities to which they are assigned.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, such as having certain current immunizations or vaccinations and providing records of receipt.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Creates a presence on the installation in which the service and family members feel comfortable approaching the counselor and recognize the program to be confidential; for CYB counselors -- creates a presence in child and youth settings, is available to children, youth, and staff.
• When working with children, counselor must abide by line of sight protocol.
• Establishes and maintains working relationships with community resources and provides appropriate linkages.
• Partners with POC to provide Adult and CYB services in a manner that addresses the needs of the installation/facility.
• Develops an excellent working relationship with the installation/facility POC.
• Manages duty to warn and restricted reporting situations according to DoD protocol and staffs the cases with Regional Supervisor/Regional Director.

Skills

• Ability to prove US Citizenship and must be fluent in English.

Benefits

Magellan offers a broad range of health, life, voluntary and other benefits and perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Magellan Health, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Tobacco-free workplace. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled.

Pay

Salary Range: Salary Minimum: $59,922 Salary Maximum: $100,280

Schedule

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law.