SENIOR COUNSELOR HEALTH/WELFARE/WELLNESS

Hiring Department

Student Well-Being

Job Description

The senior counselor role serves as a member of a collaborative student wellbeing team dedicated to supporting and promoting student health and wellbeing as a core institutional value. Through a multidisciplinary, comprehensive approach, this position will serve as a licensed mental health professional providing direct mental health services to a diverse community of undergraduate and graduate students. Using a short-term intervention and stepped care model, the senior counselor will be responsible for providing individual and group counseling, screenings, consultations, and crisis intervention services. This position may also assist in training and supervision of master’s level interns. As a JED Campus Alumni school, this position plays an integral part of our collaborative and multidisciplinary student wellbeing team. For department specific information, visit https://wellbeing.mst.edu.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides individual, group, and crisis counseling with around 65% direct service commitment
• Consults with internal and external stakeholders, and with professional colleagues
• Acts as a resource and/or mentor for colleagues
• Collaborates with colleagues on campus committees and initiatives
• Contributes to gathering data, compiling information, and preparing reports
• Develops and delivers educational programs on self-management and mental health
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

Master's degree in psychology, counseling, marriage and family therapy, or social work and relevant licensure (or eligible to be licensed within 12 months) within the State of Missouri.

Preferred Qualifications

• Four years’ experience providing mental health services
• Professional experience in a university/college counseling center setting working with young adults and a diverse population
• Track record of consistently sound professional decision-making
• Ability to communicate effectively and create trusting, supportive relationships
• Possesses highly developed skills to resolve complex and challenging clinical situations
• Training and experience promoting diversity, inclusion, and multicultural excellence
• Possesses knowledge of best practices and desire to learn and incorporate new service methods
• Comfortable in the use of computer technology (PyraMED software, email, web pages, Power Point, web-based surveys) to enhance services and outreach to students and campus
• Possesses professional liability insurance
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of state and federal health care privacy laws, Title IX, VAWA, ADA, Title II, HIPAA, FERPA, and professional ethics