Licensed Mental Health Therapist (Part-Time) Fresno City College

Continuous RecruitmentThis posting has been created to establish an applicant pool for part-time faculty positions. Applications will be reviewed by members of the hiring department when vacancies arise.

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Title Licensed Mental Health Therapist (Part-Time) Fresno City College

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Campus Location Fresno City College

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Essential Functions of Position

At Fresno City College we value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities and orientations. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college. The successful candidate will be an equity-minded leader committed to student success achieved through collaboration with faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners who are also dedicated to closing equity gaps.

An equity-minded individual is a person who:

• Understands the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices;
• Reframes inequities as a problem of practice and views the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility;
• Encourages positive race-consciousness and embraces human difference;
• Supports institutional practices that both develop and sustain culturally responsive teaching and learning environments; and
• Strategically builds support for and participation in equity-related initiatives across both our internal and external communities.

The ideal candidate will share Fresno City College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. For the  academic year, we enrolled over 34,000 students in which 60% identify as Latinx, 11% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 5% as Black/African American, 20% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 3% as multiracial. Fresno City College is a Hispanic-Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well-being of the surrounding community.

The successful candidate will join a department dedicated to the use of curriculum responsive to the students it serves.

Providing services at Fresno City College, the Counselor will cover a full range of counseling responsibilities including academic, career, transfer and personal counseling to a diverse student population. The successful candidate for the Counselor position will be responsible for:

• Provide mental health services to students, including assessment and brief mental health therapy;
• Provide effective short-term therapy to students, in individual and groups settings, to address mental health concerns, emotional wellness, and substance abuse issues;
• Provide crisis support or intervention to students in distress and conduct crisis interventions and assessments to students as needed;
• Case management: referral to campus and community resources to secure student basic needs and to ensure continuity of therapeutic care;
• Develop and maintain confidential notes and records in accordance with applicable standards of practice and federal/state laws and regulations;
• Develop and provide equity-minded professional development workshops and programs to foster positive mental health that enhances students’ abilities to benefit from college including anger management, conflict resolution, domestic violence and communication skills;
• Conduct effective outreach and programming, and culturally relevant approaches to mental health services, including strategies and activities that foster student wellness and campus safety, such as outreach and…