Mental Health Counselor

10-Month Mental Health Counselor

Curry College is seeking an experienced, licensed mental healthclinician to serve as a Mental Health Counselor for the Curry College student community. The Mental Health Counselor is afull-time, 10-month, generalist position in the Counseling Center.

This position provides culturally competent clinical services andmental health care to meet the needs of the college's diverse student population. The Mental Health Counselor will promote and support the philosophy, policies, and procedures of the Counseling Center that incorporate equity, anti-oppression work, and social justice principles that support student wellbeing. The Mental Health Counselor must work within their scope of clinical training,experience and ethical standards of professional practice.

In addition, the Mental Health Counselor assists in other related tasks vital to the department's operation, including developing and delivering campus communications or presentations, outreachprogramming to campus partners and students, and providingconsultations to students and key campus partners, as well as other duties as assigned.

• Provides direct counseling services to the student population,including short-term individual/group counseling; crisis assessment and intervention; professional consultation to faculty, staff, and students;
• Maintains a clinical caseload as assigned by the Director, inconcert with the Department's needs and scope of practice;
• Makes appropriate referrals to community service providers, for specialized evaluation, medication, neuro-psychological testing and/or more intensive counseling services when clinically indicated(e.g., partial hospital, inpatient psychiatric care);
• Provides informational sessions to student groups and/orclasses about available services and relevant mental health topicsas assigned;
• Participates in and/or creates training modules for campus partners as assigned by the Director (e.g., training for Resident Assistants and Orientation Leaders about assisting students incrisis);
• Plans and participates in psycho-educational outreach eventsand activities to the student community;
• May work some evenings or a staggered schedule to facilitate
  
  Center staffing coverage and major college events (e.g., Accepted Student's Day, Commencement).

• Provides consultation to students, parents, faculty and staffon topics within his/her professional scope of training and expertise;
• Consults with health care and treatment providers, when service needs are outside of the Staff Counselor's scope of training and expertise;
• Consults with collateral providers as a means of enhancingclinical services, determining appropriateness of services, and toinvolve other providers when clinically indicated;
• Consults with the Director in a timely fashion about clinical activities and needs, including high risk situations to help promote student mental health and safety;
• Participates in assigned departmental rotation of after-hoursclinical on-call consultation to campus partners in relation to students who are experiencing a psychological crisis when the Counseling Center is closed.

• Maintains daily schedule and client records in EMR or designated documentation system(s);
• Maintains client confidentiality per department policies and procedures.

• Receives and participates in regular clinical supervision fromthe Director during which case assignments, treatment progress and student mental health needs are reviewed to ensure service delivery is consistent with the scope of practice within the Department;
• Assists the Director with clinical training and/or…