Clinical Counselor 12mo - Counseling and Mental Health Services

Clinical Counselor

Reporting to the Director of Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS), the Clinical Counselor provides a full-range of individual and group psychological services to students, who represent a wide range of multicultural backgrounds, presenting complex psychosocial, personal, and family issues. The Clinical Counselor effectively represents CAPS as a member of the University faculty, and performs additional professional services as individual skills, interests, and agency needs indicate.

This position is a full-time, twelve-month position. While the position is classified as "temporary," the expectation is that it will be renewed annually contingent on performance, departmental needs, and budgetary constraints. At this time, CAPS is providing both in-person and remote (via Zoom) services to students. This position offers some flexibility with in-person and remote work contingent on department coverage and needs.

Mostly in-person work is required; there is no option for full remote work.

The successful candidate will maintain a clinical caseload of students representing the diversity of SF State students. Clinical counselors shall spend at least 60-65% of their time base providing direct services. The duties of this position are focused on: intake and assessment/triage; provision of brief individual, group, and couples counseling (using time-limited treatment models); outreach; referrals; crisis intervention; and consultation.

There may be other duties as assigned as well.

At all times, the candidate will demonstrate behaviors that are in line with the User Friendly Principles (P530C) and Principles of Conduct for a Multi-Cultural University (P30D); and demonstrate safe work practices for oneself, others and the office environment.

Minimum qualifications typically required include possession of an appropriate terminal degree, e.g., either a Doctorate in behavioral sciences, counseling, psychology or a specific related academic field or a California license as a Psychologist, Marriage, Family and Child Counselor.

Dependent upon the specific position and classification under consideration, candidates should possess most or all of the following:

• Knowledge of organizational development, planning and structure; principles of administrative, personnel and fiscal management; professional counseling techniques and strategies; statistics and research methodologies; specific academic discipline.
• Knowledge of or ability to understand the role and functioning of Student Services and Academic Affairs programs in a higher education setting and work with students from multicultural backgrounds presenting various attitudes and value systems.
• Demonstrated ability to counsel students utilizing professional counseling techniques and strategies and meet the needs of a multicultural, diverse and multi-aged student body group; plan and conduct workshops and groups utilizing innovative facilitation techniques; visualize needed changes and improvements in counseling or related programs; originate new, different or creative solutions to student problems; gain acceptance of program operations based on positive working relationships and recognition and understanding of the need for compromise;
  
  understand the roles and responsibilities of others and to gauge relationships accordingly by taking into account the variety of the interrelationships, motivations and goals of the members of the organizations served; collect and analyze data or information; solve problems and to draw conclusions from an analysis of the data collected; apply and utilize various statistical and research methods; organize and present data and information in a concise and logical manner;
  
  interview skillfully; establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others; prepare and present oral and written reports which are clear, concise and comprehensive; and ability to continually increase the range of comprehension and knowledge of the theoretical and practical aspects of the research performed in the Student Services area.

Experience working in a multicultural urban setting;

Experience in the provision of clinical services to students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or PoC;

Experience in the provision of outreach and consultation services to the university community, particularly for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or PoC;

Experience and clinical effectiveness in multicultural counseling approaches with ethnically and culturally diverse clients and communities;

Knowledge and experience working with clinical issues common in a university setting (e.g. substance abuse, sexual assault, eating disorders, conflict resolution, individual/group conflict resolution, trauma debriefing, etc.);

Clinical skills and experience in time-limited, short-term approaches, with a broad range of complex personal and interpersonal issues;

Ability to establish effective working collaborations between individuals and groups representing different…