You will serve as a FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM COUNSELOR in the Marine and Family Services Division, Behavioral Health Branch of MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON.

Duties

You will provide clinical services to families and individuals that are victims or perpetrators of abuse. You will utilize skills in assessments and make appropriate referrals and follow-up for cases of family violence. You will provide education with the goal of reducing violent incidents. You will provide case management functions. You will provide training to the unit Family Advocate Program leadership. You will present cases to the clinical care staff meetings. You will participate in developing required services when needs are identified. You will assist the command and emergency response personnel during the crisis stages of violent incidents. You will assess the individual needs of each family and the needs of the command and provide the appropriate intervention and treatment referrals for family violence cases. You will maintain confidential case files and the documentation necessary for evaluations for services. You will provide psycho-educational group counseling for individuals identified as experiencing family violence. Prepare and conduct classes, workshops, and briefings. You will provide short-term individual counseling and general non-medical related problems focus counseling; utilize available military and civilian referrals when appropriate. You will provide intake, administrative and other duties as assigned. You will coordinate with civilian and military resources to identify at-risk families. Participate in activities in the local communities as they pertain to military families.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You are required to possess and maintain a current valid United States driver’s license.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.

Qualifications

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Providing clinical counseling to individuals and groups for the prevention and treatment of family violence, performing clinical case management to include risk assessment, safety planning, psycho-social assessment, treatment, and referral of child and spouse abuse cases; and maintaining confidential case files and documentation of evaluation services. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0100/social-science-series-0101/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

Applicants must meet the following Basic Requirements of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualifications Standards Manual: Applicants must possess:

Degree: behavioral or social science; or related disciplines appropriate to the position;

or

Combination of education and experience that provided the applicant with knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field;

or

Four years of appropriate experience that demonstrated that the applicant has acquired knowledge of one or more of the behavioral or social sciences equivalent to a major in the field.

In lieu of specialized experience listed in the Qualifications section, after meeting the basic education requirements of this position, applicants may qualify based on education alone or an equivalent combination of education and experience as follows:

Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree.or3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to a Ph.D.;

or

equivalent doctoral degree or LL.M., if related

Applicants must provide all relevant transcripts needed to verify education.

Contacts

• Address MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON USMC Camp Pendleton, CA 92055 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]