# Adult Military and Family Life Counselor (Adult-MFLC)

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Misawa, Aomori
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $59,150.00 - $106,925.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a licensed behavioural health professional to join our Adult Military and Family Life Counseling (MFLC) team in Misawa, Japan.

As an Adult-MFLC, you will provide non-medical support, including counseling, consultation, and outreach, to US military service members and their families as they navigate military life adjustments.

**Responsibilities:**

- Provide face-to-face counseling to military service members and their families (individuals, couples, and families)

- Observe, participate, and engage in activities with service members, military spouses, and families; provide coaching, guidance, and support to installation staff; and model behaviour management techniques for staff and military family members

- Offer presentations to service members, military families, and military leadership at military-connect events

- Promote creativity and positivity through approved materials

- Build rapport with parents and families by attending installation and community events

- Help with transition adjustments, such as a new school and a new home

- Participate in regular in-service training or other contract activities as assigned

- Communicate information regarding trends and issues at assigned installation to Team Leads

**Benefits:**

- No insurance to file

- No progress notes required

- No treatment plans to develop

- iPad provided for easy digital reporting, with no PII or PHI

- Paid federal holidays

- Free and unlimited behavioural healthcare training

- Reimbursement for job-related license renewal fees

- Eligibility to participate in 401K retirement plan

- Centralised support through a Counseling Centre of Excellence that provides best practices, expert speakers, and state-of-the-art resources

**Additional Job Duties:**

- Responding to emergent situations in any physical location on a military installation

- Traversing long distances to both indoor and outdoor locations, to manoeuvre through rugged, outdoor, or uneven locations (ascend/descend), and work in outdoor weather

- Travelling to locations outside of a military base in a variety of physical environments

- Complying with various site-specific requirements to work at designated locations

**Environment:**

- Duties are performed in multiple indoor locations (approximately 60%) and outdoor locations (approximately 40%)

- Indoor locations are located within a military installation controlled by the Department of Defense

- Outdoor locations frequently involve traversing over uneven grassy, gravel, and/or dirt areas, ascending/descending stairs, and exposure to the weather

**Licensure Portability:**

- Under the recent National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), licensed Military and Family Life Counselors may provide non-medical counseling services to military families at any location in a US state, the District of Columbia, or a territory or possession of the United States, regardless of which state the counselor is licensed in

**Minimum Requirements:**

- A Master's degree or higher in the Behavioural Health Professions (MS/MSW/MA/PhD)

- Licensure to practice at the independent practice level (LCSW, MFT, LPCC, Psychologist) in the state where you provide services

- Must be a US citizen

- Must be able to pass a basic background check for employment, a Child National Agency Check, and Inquiries (NACI/CNACI) clearance, commonly called a Public Trust clearance

## Skills

### Required
- Master's degree in Behavioural Health Professions
- LCSW
- MFT
- LPCC
- Psychologist

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