"Assistant Director for Training"

Position Summary

Reporting to the Associate Director of Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS), the Assistant Director for Training provides overall coordination, oversight, and administration of CPS' mental health graduate training programs. These programs include a post-graduate fellowship, a pre-doctoral psychology externship, a mental health counseling/social work internship, and a psychiatric residency rotation. Additionally, the Assistant Director for Training provides a range of mental health services to the Fordham community, including individual and group counseling, crisis intervention, consultations, clinical supervision, outreach interventions, and assessments and evaluations.

Essential Functions

• Provides direct clinical services, including initial screening assessments, crisis intervention, and individual and group psychotherapy/counseling to a diverse undergraduate and graduate student population.
• Oversees recruitment, orientation and personnel records for pre-doctoral externs, post-graduate fellows, psychiatric residents, and mental health counseling/social work interns.
• Develops and delivers training curricula for post-graduate fellowship, pre-doctoral externship, and social work/mental health counseling internship programs.
• Provides clinical supervision to pre-doctoral externs, post-graduate fellows, psychiatric residents, and mental health counseling/social work interns.
• Communicates and consults with directors of clinical training and psychiatric residency programs in the NYC metropolitan area.
• Oversees and ensures compliance with local and national standards and guidelines for graduate training programs in mental health, including NYNJADOT, APPIC, APA, ACA and NASW.
• Assists in the planning and delivery of university wide outreach events and programs.
• Participates in clinical, multidisciplinary, and administrative team meetings.
• Provides consultation to faculty, administrators, families, and community providers about students of concern and campus wide mental health issues.

Required Qualifications

Advanced degree in a mental health-related field (clinical or counseling psychology, social work, mental health counseling) from an accredited program. Licensed or license-eligible as a mental health provider in New York State. Minimum of 2 years of experience providing counseling, group psychotherapy, and clinical supervision and training in a mental health setting.

Preferred Qualifications

Doctorate degree preferred.

About Fordham

Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its nine colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United Kingdom. The University offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; life insurance; short and long-term disability; employee assistance program (EAP); tuition remission; and generous time off. Successful candidates should have a knowledge of and commitment to the goals of Jesuit Education.