Nurse (Mental Health Care Facilitator)
Provide evidence-based mental health care facilitation and nursing services at Kadena Air Base in Japan.
Best for:Best for licensed professional registered nurses with mental health nursing experience seeking an overseas federal healthcare role.
Overview
This position is located at the 18th Medical Group, Kadena Air Base in Japan, serving Military Health System beneficiaries through an integrated, team-based approach to primary care. The selected nurse will act as a mental health care facilitator, delivering biopsychosocial assessments, treatments, and prevention strategies for conditions like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Responsibilities include clinical triaging, patient monitoring, multidisciplinary care coordination, and staff education. The incumbent is expected to maintain clinical standards, participate in quality improvement initiatives, and adhere to strict federal employment and overseas deployment conditions.
What you'll do
- Perform independent, comprehensive telephone and clinical triaging in primary care settings to support providers managing patients with mental health conditions.
- Facilitate multidisciplinary continuity of care for adult beneficiaries experiencing depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anxiety disorders.
- Monitor patient progress and symptom severity via structured telephonic interviews and validated assessment tools.
- Identify and report abnormal test results, changes in clinical symptoms, and the necessity for follow-up interventions.
- Coordinate patient referrals to internal and external community support services or the TRICARE network.
- Deliver individual and small group training to clinic staff and patients to promote mental health service integration and education.
- Conduct quality improvement activities including risk appraisals, chart reviews, trend identification, and corrective action reporting.
Requirements
Degree required: Graduate, bachelor's, associate degree, or diploma from an accredited professional nursing educational program
Language: English; professional fluency required
Instruction: English
- At least one full year of professional nursing experience providing care to patients with mental health conditions
- Experience coordinating patient care plans across multidisciplinary teams
- Experience providing educational training to staff or patients
- Proficiency in clinical and telephonic triage procedures
- Strong knowledge of mental health conditions such as PTSD, anxiety, and depression
- Must be a U.S. citizen
- Must possess a current, active, full, and unrestricted professional nurse license from a U.S. State, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or territory
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance
- Must be able to pass a background investigation and credit check
- Must complete a Childcare Background Investigation
- Must satisfy DoD Civilian Personnel Management System requirements for employment in foreign areas
Funding & terms
How to apply
Review the job announcement details and ensure all education transcripts and licensure documents are prepared. Submit your application package through the official federal employment portal following the instructions provided in the vacancy notice.
- CV
- BSc + MSc transcripts
- Professional nurse license
- CGFNS Certificate (if foreign educated)
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