POSITION DESCRIPTION
The University of Idaho Counseling and Mental Health Center (CMHC) is hiring a psychologist to enhance services and support student well-being. This full-time, 12-month exempt position offers a minimum salary of $85,000. CMHC provides counseling, crisis intervention, psychiatric care, and assessments through a brief therapy model focused on wellness. Additional services include substance use programs, outreach, consultation, and biofeedback programming. The CMHC is home to an APA-accredited doctoral internship in professional psychology. The center provides a supportive, stigma-free environment. Candidates should be committed to student well-being and advancing the center’s mission and values.
The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team and spend the majority of their time providing direct clinical services to students which includes initial appointments, crisis intervention, individual counseling and case management activities within the CMHC’s established clinical model. The CMHC offers a broad range of clinical services which include group counseling, psychiatric services, psychological assessment, alcohol and other drug programming, biofeedback and trauma-informed treatments.
In addition, the psychologist will design and implement educational outreach programs, provide consultation about psychological issues to the campus community, serve in at least one liaison role to a campus partner, provide clinical supervision and training for doctoral interns in the APA-accredited internship program and provide occasional afterhours work (e.g., critical campus incidents or outreach requests) on an as-needed-basis. The psychologist will also be expected to engage in scholarship activities which may include professional presentations, program development and/or research and publications. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation as a generalist as well as an emerging or clearly defined area of professional specialization.
ABOUT UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO
The Counseling & Mental Health Center (CMHC) is the primary provider of mental health services for the University of Idaho student population. The CMHC offers individual and group counseling, crisis intervention, psychiatric services, psychological testing, alcohol and other drug programming, outreach, campus liaisons and consultative services. The CMHC utilizes a developmental model, focusing on personal development, coping skills, treatment, and wellness within a brief therapy framework. The CMHC also has an APA accredited doctoral internship in professional psychology.
https://www.uidaho.edu/current-students/cmhc
