Counseling Clinician

Anna Maria College - Paxton, MA

Full-time - Mid Level

Paxton, MA

Educational Services

About the position

The Counseling Center is currently recruiting for a clinician to join their staff. The Counseling Center provides comprehensive short-term/time-limited counseling services that assist students with a wide range of concerns including, but not limited to, crisis management, emerging psychological diagnoses, long-term mental health diagnoses, family concerns, developmental and transitional concerns, relationship problems, alcohol and other drug concerns, academic success and career and life planning. The focus of this position is to expand the offering of mental health services to students in order to reduce barriers to learning and create opportunities for greater academic achievement and student success.

Responsibilities

• Provides general psychological and mental health services to a diverse population of undergraduate and graduate students who present with a varied range of concerns (depression, adjustment, relationship issues, grief, stress, anxiety, etc.) using a short-term counseling intervention model.
• Provide crisis intervention and follow services to members of the campus community, as needed, often in collaboration with other College partners.
• Emergency assessment of at-risk students, assist in arranging emergency hospital visits and or in-patient stay as needed.
• Work with local hospitals and mental health providers to assist students in gaining referrals and services and continuity of care in the community.
• Provide psychological consultation regarding student behaviors, when needed, to staff, faculty, and administration.
• Provide outreach services and educational workshops to students, faculty, staff, and administration when available.
• Timely completion of documentation.
• Increases awareness of mental health services available to students on campus and within the community.
• Maintains and models the highest ethical and professional standards while working collaboratively across campus with all areas in support of student success.
• Exhibits an understanding and commitment to culturally focused and culturally sensitive responsive interventions that promote a healthy, inclusive campus environment and meet the mental health needs of the College community.
• Participation in wellness programs; some evening and weekend programs may be necessary.
• Serve in the counselor on call rotation in order to respond to emergency needs outside of clinic hours.
• Attend all appropriate staff, organizational, and external meetings (as assigned).

Requirements

• Masters or doctoral degree in counseling or clinical psychology, family therapy clinical social work, or other closely related discipline from an accredited College or University.
• Current Massachusetts Counseling license.
• 3+ years' experience in psychological counseling required, experience in a college counseling setting strongly encouraged.
• LICSW preferred, LMHC or LCSW required.

Nice-to-haves

• Demonstrated commitment to using a multicultural framework in working with individuals from ethnically, racially, socially and economically diverse background and individuals from varying sexual orientations.
• Demonstrated skills in providing consultation and outreach intervention that address developmental and mental health concerns typical of college student development.
• Excellent clinical skills, with emphasis on short-term/time-limited individual and group therapy.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including mediating and negotiating skills.
• Strong commitment to workplace honesty, integrity, communication, teamwork, collaboration and professional ethics.
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality according to requirement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy ACT (FERPA), confidentiality policies appropriate to the candidate's license and professional identity, and College policies.
• Must maintain individual mental health malpractice insurance.