Military Family Life Counselor PRN

Job Description

AMERICAN HOSPITAL SERVICES GROUP, LLC

Colorado Springs

The Military Family Life Counselor PRN  is a licensed mental health professional who exercises discretion and independent judgment to provide appropriate information, coaching, training, and education to Service Members and their families. Provides face-to-face direct, non-medical, brief, solution-focused counseling services to individuals, couples, families, and groups for situations resulting from commonly occurring life circumstances such as parenting, relationship conflicts, stress, personal loss, and deployments and reunions.

Responsibilities

• Partners with and augments activities of Service Family Centers, Guard and Reserve programs (including Inter-Service Family Assistance Committees), unit family support staff officers, and other programs and services to build coalitions and connect Federal, state, and local resources and non-profit organizations to support Active Duty, Guard and Reserve families.
• Identifies family needs and provides a “get-well” plan in compliance with non-medical counseling scope.
• Provides face-to-face non-medical problem-solving counseling to families when other resources are not available and makes appropriate referrals and warm transfers to military and community resources according to the needs of families and service members, including the following activities :

Consults with military commands and installation service providers as requested.

Availability for Services Tool : Must be completed at the start and end of each shift daily to accurately reflect hours of service the provider is available to provide services on the installation.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Physical Demands  (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)