POSITION DESCRIPTION

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• Full Time

Position Summary

The Clinical Counselor provides a full-range of individual and group psychological services to students, as well as consultation to faculty and staff who represent a wide range of multicultural backgrounds, presenting complex psychosocial, personal, and family issues. Responsibilities include a significant focus on coordinating services for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color (PoC). This candidate is expected to work collaboratively within CAPS, with other offices on campus, and with students themselves to develop services designed to best meet the needs of the university's Black student community. As with all CAPS staff, this counselor will also operate as a generalist who provides a full-range of services to the entire student body.

Essential job functions

·       Provision of brief individual, group, marital, and couples counseling (using time-limited treatment models);

·       Outreach and consultation services to the University community, particularly for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or PoC;

·       Coordination of services for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or People of Color (PoC);

·       Coordinate and track referrals to on-campus and local community health care and welfare resources;

·       Provide crisis intervention;

·       Provide clinical supervision to trainees of The Peggy H. Smith Counseling Clinic, a graduate training clinic staffed by graduate students; Involvement with the training program also involves co-facilitating outreach activities, workshops, and groups with all level of trainees; and providing training and educational seminars for all levels of trainees.

·       Perform additional professional services as individual skills, interests and agency needs indicate;

·       Willingness and availability to work evenings and weekend hours for campus outreach events or emergency/campus crisis/disaster situations.

Skill requirements

• Demonstrated experience and clinical effectiveness in multicultural counseling approaches with ethnically and culturally diverse clients and communities.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and collaborations within and outside the department.
• Demonstrated ability to provide effective consultation regarding a variety of psychological issues.
• Strong clinical assessment skills.
• Strong crisis/suicide intervention experience and critical incident debriefing capabilities.
• Extensive experience making discerning judgments regarding complex legal and ethical issues.