Student Counselor

Minimum Hiring Annual Salary: $74,836.00

Maximum Hiring Annual Salary: $80,823.00

To attain the maximum annual salary, employee must meet all minimum qualifications plus:

• 5 (five) years of additional applicable work experience and/or degrees higher than minimum qualification degree. Degrees higher than the minimum qualification degree can be used in combination with additional work experience.
• A combination of related education, on-the-job work experience, certifications and/or licenses that results in a candidate successfully meeting the minimum qualifications of the position, may be considered.

The stated salary amounts are not guaranteed in the event employment ends with Aims during any fiscal year.

• Benefits are effective immediately
• 100% employer provided medical & dental coverage employees (employee only option)
• 85% employer provided medical & dental coverage for employee's spouse and/or family
• Voluntary vision insurance
• Staff Annual Leave (minimum accrual of 15 days) & Sick (minimum accrual of 12 days)
• 17 paid holidays and 3 personal days each year
• Summer schedule: 4-day work week - Fridays Off
• Employer paid long-term disability and life insurance premiums
• Tuition waiver & reimbursement for employees
• Tuition waiver for dependents
• PERA employer (see (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). for comprehensive benefits)
• Additional supplemental benefits & retirement programs available
• Access to the PERC (Aims gym) for employee & one guest
• Free parking on all campuses

Aims Community College actively supports an environment that embraces the College's Mission, Vision, Values and a culture of innovation and care. The College embraces and seeks to hire individuals who want to be a part of this environment and have the skill sets necessary to be successful in this position. The primary purpose of this position is to provide personal counseling services, including crisis counseling, primarily to Aims students on the Greeley campus, with an expectation of providing support to students on other campuses in-person and virtually as needed.

The position also develops prevention/wellness programming and psycho-educational support groups for students, and training/workshops for staff and faculty. This position is required to develop community connections and partnerships with non-profit agencies to maximize external referrals in Northern Colorado. In addition, the position supervises counseling interns who provide personal counseling services to students on campus; oversees crisis response services for Aims students by developing departmental protocols and serving as the lead crisis response person, per institutional policy.

This position requires occasional travel.

• Assist the Executive Director with the administration of student services functions on the Greeley Campus.
• Attend campus-based staff meetings and relevant training.
• Serve as Counseling Team liaison to Greeley based faculty.
• Develop partnerships with academic/career programs.

• Implement comprehensive strategies and outreach programs at Greeley campus to promote mental health awareness on campus and provide preventive and responsive education to stakeholders regarding health.
• Plan and implement a preventative and educational curriculum for programs and workshops related to mental health and working with students in distress/crisis.
• Coordinate and develop curriculum for workshops for students on mental health topics at the Greeley campus.
• Be involved with educational efforts on a variety of need-based topics (suicide prevention, mental health, resource access, problem solving, resiliency)
• Execute wellness tactics on the college's strategic plan specifically for the Greeley campus.

• Conduct individual counseling sessions in areas of academic problems, personal, interpersonal relationships, family, social, and psychological issues.
• Establish support groups on campus to assist students with coping strategies related to common issues (e.g. grief/loss, single-parent, self-harm, suicidal/homicidal ideation, abuse, etc.)
• Support the development of departmental procedures for the crisis response manual based on the crisis response policy.
• Serves as the lead crisis response point person for Counseling Services at Greeley Campus.
• Meet with referred students and help them to gain emotional stability. Assist the student in the problem-solving process to make well-informed decisions regarding alternative choices.
• Lead psycho-educational support groups specifically focused on the needs of students and academic cohorts at the Greeley campus.
• Coordinate relevant training on crisis response for staff on Greeley campus.
• Support the Dean of Students and Behavioral Intervention Team with management of CARE cases that include mental health concerns and/or diagnosis by providing appropriate interventions and support.
• Provide outside referral resources when needed.
• Maintain currency in best practices and emerging theories in the field.
• Maintain annual…