Behavioral Health Counselor​/Part-time Faculty

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Behavioral Health Counselor/Part-time Faculty

Student Health Services (Dept)

N/A

Continuous Application Pool

Part-time

Academic

Part-time faculty members are not to exceed a load of 67%.

A part-time faculty member's assignment may include day, evening and/or weekend work, and work at more than one location (San Marcos campus and/or off-campus locations, as well as distance education classes).

Initial Placement Hourly Range: $75.81 - $119.20 (instructional); $74.60 - $117.69 (non-instructional)

For salary and placement information, visit www.palomar.edu/hr/employees/classifications/salary/ and use the links in the Part-time Faculty.

Hourly

For information about part-time faculty health benefits, visit https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./ and click on Part-time Faculty Benefits.

Part-time faculty employees are eligible to elect membership in one of the following retirement plans:

• CalSTRS (California State Teachers Retirement System)
• APPLE (Accumulation Program for Part-Time Limited-Service Employees)

The Student Health Services department is seeking qualified part-time behavioral health counselors to provide short-term mental health counseling for a diverse population of students with the goal of maximizing success in the college setting. Major duties and responsibilities include providing brief individual mental health counseling for students, crisis assessment and intervention, mental health program and services development, guidance and direction to behavioral health interns, and campus consultation and outreach.

Services may also be provided remotely via telehealth.

There is a current need for behavioral health counselors qualified to work with vulnerable student populations, including but not limited to undocumented, formerly incarcerated, LGBTQ+, APIMEDA, international, first-generation, current and former foster youth, disabled, and veteran/military-affiliated students.

Must meet one of the sets of qualifications listed under
1) through
3):

• A Master's in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work, career development, marriage and family therapy or marriage, family and child counseling.
• A Bachelor's degree in any of the disciplines listed in a) above AND a license as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT), pursuant to Title 5, Section 53410.1 of the California Code of Regulations.
• A combination of education and experience that is at least the equivalent of the qualifications in either
  1) or
  2) above. You must complete and attach the Application for Equivalency form (
  www.palomar.edu/hr/equivalency-app/), if you do not possess the specific minimum qualifications as stated above,
  which includes degrees that have not been awarded at the time of submitting the application
  .

Only coursework completed at, and degrees awarded by, accredited institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education will be considered as satisfying the minimum qualifications. Coursework and degrees that are completed outside of the United States are required to have transcripts evaluated (evaluation to U.S. equivalency and a course by course analysis) by an appropriate U.S. credentials evaluation service. For a list of credentials evaluation agencies accepted by Palomar College, visit the National Association of Credentials Evaluation Services (NACES) website at https:///members
, or the Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. (AICE) website at /.

Palomar College serves over 30,000 students from a variety of backgrounds and we are proud to be a Hispanic Serving Institution. Our student body is rich in its diversity. to see a quick overview of our student demographics on our recent Student Fact Sheet
.

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