Clinical Military Family Life Counselor

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Full Time Professional Montgomery, AL, US

Salary Range: $43,000.00 To $68,000.00 Annually

Pearl Interactive Network is seeking to hire Military Family Life Counselors – Onsite.

The Military Family Life Counselor is responsible for supporting service members, their families, and survivors with non-medical counseling and delivering counseling services, briefings, and presentations to the military community on an installation.

Pearl offers a Competitive Compensation and Benefits package to include:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
• Paid time off, Paid holidays
• 401K eligibility
• Additional ancillary benefits to support your lifestyle professionally, physically, and financially through our professional development and coaching program.

Location(s): Montgomery, AL

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide non-medical, short-term, solution-focused, walk-around counseling directly to service and family members. Services include assessment, brief counseling and consultation, action planning, referral to resources (assuring linkage as appropriate), and follow-up as indicated.
• Deliver training, and health and wellness presentations, participate in health fairs and other bases/installation activities as requested/ directed.
• Enter counselor activity data on a daily basis through smartphone, web, or fax to assure that reporting is accurate from assigned installation while maintaining client/service member confidentiality.
• Create a presence on the installation in which the service and family members feel comfortable approaching the counselor and recognize the program to be confidential.
• Establish and maintain working relationships with community resources and provide appropriate linkages for service members and their families.
• Develop an excellent working relationship with the installation POC.
• Provide MFLC response to critical incidents, surge and on-demand events, and special requests as directed by the POC and approved by the OSD program manager. Counselor will flex their schedule to respond to urgent requests as needed.
• Manage duty to warn and restrict reporting situations according to DoD protocol and staff the cases with Regional Supervisor/Regional Director.
• Communicate with Regional Supervisors and participate in regular individual and group supervision, sharing information regarding trends and issues on the installations to which they are assigned.
• Participate in regular in-services/training, Quality Improvement committees, or other contract activities as assigned/appropriate.

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• U.S. citizen, and speak fluent English
• Successfully pass government suitability requirements
• Master’s degree from an accredited graduate program in a mental health-related field such as social work, psychology, marriage/family therapy, or counseling; a valid unrestricted counseling license or certification, REQUIRED
• Must be clinically licensed or certified and properly credentialed
• Minimum 1 - 5 years post-licensure clinical experience
• Provisionally licensed (Tier
  1), or licensed (independent licensure Tiers 2, 3, and
  4)
• Understanding of the military lifestyle, sensitivity, and empathy for service members and their families
• Working knowledge of military, state, federal, and local laws and resources
• Work effectively with individuals and families from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds
• Must be current on all immunizations recommended for adults by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or meet any Military…