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Interdisciplinary (Non-Medical Clinical Counselor)
Commander, Navy Installations Command · Posted 1 days ago
HybridPortsmouth, VA$43.5 – $46.4/hrApply by Jun 3, 2026Social ScienceINFJINFPINTJINTPHealthcareTransportation
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Serve as a Non-medical Clinical Counselor within Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC), Fleet and Family Readiness Department (N9), Family Readiness Division (N91), Fleet and Family Support Program (FFSP). This position is to provide nonmedical clinical counseling to individuals, couples, families, and groups on family dynamics, parent-child interaction, adjustment to commonly occurring personal and family issues/circumstances, adjustment to military life, and psycho-educational programs.
What You'll Do
- →In order to qualify for this position, resumes must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties of the position.
- →Applicant resumes are the key means for evaluating skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position therefore, applicants are encouraged to be clear and specific when describing experience.
- →Receives and assesses referrals made by military and civilian agencies for individuals, couples, families, and groups experiencing situational stressors, including deployment, grief, relocation, separation, relationship issues, parent/child issues, family hardships, and other military life challenges.
- →Provides direct, short term, solution focused NMC counseling services using psychotherapeutic services, such as cognitive therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, family systems therapy, expressive therapies, etc.
- →Assess individual/family needs, and explore basic personality structure in relation to behavior patterns, mechanisms, and symptoms.
- →Coordinates and manages specialized assessment and intervention services for individuals, couples, children, families, and groups on matters pertaining to family maltreatment, and subject matter expertise and consultation on family violence.
- →Independently manages assigned cases, consulting with the FFSC Counseling and Advocacy Program Supervisor, Regional Counseling and Advocacy Program Coordinator or Regional Quality Assurance Specialist where the case is highly complex or presents with special issues.
- →Maintains case records, treatment plans, statistics and utilization rates in accordance with Navy policies and regulations and updates the FFSMIS and scheduling programs as required.
- →Provides immediate intervention and risk assessment IAW best practices in the mental health community and educates and ensures adequate referral and follow-up of any case presenting suicidal or homicidal risk.
- →Provides after-hours coverage for the FFSP, when required.
- →Assess all reports of alleged child and domestic abuse, to include interview of alleged offenders, victims, children, and other witnesses.
- →Develops appropriate, risk-focused treatment and interventions for victims and perpetrators of child and domestic abuse in accordance with Navy Certification standards.
- →Represents the Navy at community liaison meetings, educating on domestic violence risk/protective factors, collaborating on coordinating services for military members and their families, and engaging in community domestic violence prevention and awareness activities to establish or strengthen relationships with other agencies serving the target population.
- →Provides summaries of liaison meetings for supervisor review, and makes recommendations to supervisor for further collaborations that will reduce duplication of service and expand the range of programs for the population serviced.
Requirements
- ✓A master's degree or Doctorate in Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, Counseling or Clinical Psychology or related field from an accredited institution from any US State.
- ✓Foreign education must include evidence that it is comparable to education received at accredited educational institutions in the United States.
- ✓All substitutions of education for experience will be made in accordance with OPM approved qualification standards.
- ✓Only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education are acceptable to meet positive education requirements or to substitute education for experience.
- ✓For additional information, please go to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education websites at http://www.opm.gov/qualifications and http://www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html
Personality Fit
Job ID: 4873f0f4-084d-49c3-956b-b0b7c2e3aaf6
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