Job Description
Provide mental health counseling and related support services to students, including clinical assessment, treatment planning, crisis intervention, suicide risk assessment, clinical documentation, consultation, outreach, and community referral for emotional, psychological, behavioral, and situational issues that impact academic success, persistence, and graduation. This position works collaboratively across Student Advocacy to provide holistic, student-centered support to students on multiple…
campuses.
REPORTS TO: AVP of Student Advocacy
Job Duties
- Provide short-term psychological counseling to students presenting with a variety of therapeutic issues within the appropriate scope of practice
- Conduct clinical assessments, develop treatment goals and plans as appropriate, and maintain accurate and timely electronic clinical documentation in accordance with state and federal laws, professional ethics, and district policies
- Triage students for the appropriate level of care, including crisis intervention, suicide risk assessment, safety planning, individual counseling, referrals for community resources, and psychological evaluations
- Maintain current knowledge of best practices in brief, solution-focused therapy techniques through ongoing asynchronous and synchronous professional development.
- Create, coordinate, promote, and deliver outreach programming, presentations, and holistic wellness initiatives that increase awareness of counseling services, mental health, and student wellness
- Actively recruit and engage students in counseling services through outreach, campus collaboration, and relationship-building across departments and campuses
- Collaborate with academic and student development departments and other areas within Student Advocacy to enhance programs and services that support student success
- Serve as an outer-circle member of the TVCC Behavioral Intervention Team
- Provide professional consultation to faculty, staff, and administrators regarding student mental health concerns, classroom concerns, distress response, and referral options
- Travel periodically to other campuses to provide counseling services, outreach, consultation, and student support
- Maintain a flexible work schedule, including working late one day per week as needed to meet student access needs
- Provide services through approved telehealth formats as available and appropriate
- Demonstrate initiative by identifying student needs, service gaps, or process concerns and helping implement effective solutions
- Establish rapport, trust, and a nonjudgmental counseling approach with students
- Maintain accurate, timely, and legally compliant clinical documentation, including case notes and treatment plans
- Work collaboratively with other areas of Student Advocacy to provide holistic student support that promotes persistence and graduation
- Provide professional consultation to faculty, staff, and administrators
- Recruit and engage students in counseling services
- Work independently, manage responsibilities effectively, and exercise sound professional judgment with minimal supervision
- Identify problems, service gaps, or student barriers and take initiative to help develop practical solutions
- Adapt to change, remain open to new ideas, and pivot when strategies or interventions are not producing the intended results
- Evaluate counseling services, identify student needs, and support continuous improvement in service delivery.
- Perform other duties as assigned by supervisory personnel
Qualifications
EDUCATION REQUIRED:
Masters degree in Counseling, Psychology, or related field
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Two (2) years of experience in counseling as a licensed counselor (LMFT, LPC, or NCC), preferably in a college, university, community mental health, or related setting. Experience providing short-term counseling, crisis intervention, suicide risk assessment, treatment planning, clinical documentation, and community referral is required.
PREFERRED:
Experience in a higher education setting, including telehealth counseling, outreach programming, continuous improvement efforts, and crisis intervention in a clinical environment.
Knowledge and Skills
- Counseling resources and best practices
- Career assessment instruments
- Holistic approaches to helping students determine an appropriate career path
- Human relations and problem solving methods
- Human behavior, individual differences in abilities, personality, and interests; learning and motivation, and the assessment of DSM-5 disorders
- Methods and procedures for assessment and treatment of mental illness
- Laws, legal codes, ethical standards, and college code of conduct
- Local social service agencies and referral/resource information
- Job search skills and resources
- Crisis management skills
- Clinical assessment skills
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Networking skills
- Presentation skills
- Creativity skills
- Observation skills
- Establish rapport, trust and non-judgmental theoretical approach to counseling individuals
- Make sound decisions
- Apply professional and ethical principles and practices
- Build positive collegial relationships
- Work with a diverse student population
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