Staff Therapist Job Evanston area,Illinois USA,Healthcare

Department: Counseling & Psych Services
Salary/Grade: EXS/10
Department Overview:
Counseling and Psychology Services (CAPS) is a unit within the Division of Student Affairs at Northwestern University (NU) and is highly utilized by students and other campus community members seeking consultation. CAPS has offices on both the Evanston and Chicago campuses. NU has a total student population of approximately 21,000 students across both campuses, with approximately 18,500 of these students attending classes in the Evanston campus.

The Chicago office primarily serves graduate and professional students while Evanston office serves both undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to our clinical services, CAPS reaches over 10,000 NU community members through outreach and educational programming on both campuses. CAPS also has a training program, including an APA-accredited Doctoral Internship in Psychology and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship. CAPS is a learning organization, in that our strategic planning, priority setting, clinical services, and professional development are informed by local data collection as well as benchmarking with national trends and peer institutions.

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Job Summary:
Full-time, 12-month, Staff Therapist (LCPC, LCSW, or Psychologist) in Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). Reporting the Director of Clinical Services, this position conducts mental health evaluations and provides brief individual and group therapy for Northwestern students, and provides crisis intervention, clinical consultation, and mental health programming to the Northwestern community. This position also participates as a member of the training program through the provision of clinical supervision and/or training seminars.

In addition to the provision of direct clinical services, some Staff Therapists at CAPS serve as liaisons between the department and other areas of campus (e.g., a specific school or college within the institution). These liaison roles are determined each year depending on need and may vary from year to year. Staff Therapists may also provide or assist with the administration of a specific program or initiative, such as Let's Talk, New Student Orientation, or a segment of the group therapy program.

These roles are also determined each year depending on need.

This position requires some evening hours and occasional weekend duties. After hours duties typically include 2-3 evenings and up to one weekend of on-call duties per quarter. Staff Therapists also generally provide 2-3 evening or weekend outreach events per quarter.

Pay Range: The salary range for this Staff Therapist position is $93,000 - $96,537 depending on experience, skills, and internal equity.

Principal Accountabilities:

Clinical Services

Provides services including brief individual and group psychotherapy, crisis intervention, case management, and initial assessment (in-person and Telemental health).

Assumes after-hours on call responsibilities.

Maintains timely clinical records of therapeutic and other client contacts.

Consults with psychiatrists in conjunction with prescribing and monitoring psychotropic medication for psychotherapy clients.

Consults with parents, physicians, faculty, academic deans, residence life staff, off-campus counseling services, other campus offices and students, when appropriate, and with appropriate authorization to provide quality care to students.

Makes referrals to off-campus clinical services when appropriate.

Community-Based Intervention Programming

Develop and maintain supportive relationships with campus partners.

Conduct community-based intervention programming as requested to the campus community, including orientation sessions for new students and parents, informal support spaces, psycho educational workshop presentations, and emergency support services. May occasionally provide these services for other NU campus.

May serve as a liaison to other campus unit(s) or academic programs.

Training

May provide clinical supervision (including face-to-face case review, review of videos and progress notes, and supervisory feedback) to mental health trainees at CAPS.

Provides consultation to trainee(s), as needed.

Provides training to CAPS trainees about a variety of clinical topics in consultation with the Associate Director for Training.

Provide crisis management consultation and supervision to trainees, as requested.

Other Duties

Attend and participate in regular CAPS staff…