Job Details
Posting Title
Staff Psychologist
Overview
The University Counseling Center strives to enhance the overall educational experience by assisting students with the opportunities, demands, and challenges of university life. As students grow and develop, they do so in a values-based institution that offers a unique learning and living environment to enable students to discover excellence and experience success.
The Counseling Center assists students with defining and accomplishing personal and academic goals by serving as a multidisciplinary, campus-based mental health organization dedicated to addressing the diverse needs of students. In pursuing an active and fulfilling college life, a student can experience difficulties with adjusting to, and balancing, new roles and responsibilities. The Center provides a broad range of direct clinical/counseling, educational, learning assistance, consultative, outreach, training, assessment, and emergency response programs and services.
This position provides professional mental health services (i.e., counseling and psychotherapy) to the student community. Provide supervision and training for graduate student trainees (primarily interns and externs) in mental health fields. The staff psychologist also participates in the Counseling Center's consultative, outreach, educational, assessment/referral, and emergency response services.
Responsibilities
* Provide individual counseling/psychotherapy both in person and via teletherapy to undergraduates and graduate or law students who may be experiencing psychological, behavioral, emotional, or learning difficulties. Complete required administrative paperwork including writing intake and termination summaries and filing records and forms in the client's paper file when needed, entering typed progress notes for every session into the client database, and writing individual trainee evaluations.
* Assess, evaluate and make treatment recommendations to new clients presenting with concerns including depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, disordered eating, relationship problems, family concerns, and academic difficulties. Refer students to resources both within the campus (e.g., the Counseling Center's Staff Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner; Student Health Services; Office of Disability Support Services; Office of the Dean of Students) and outside of the campus (e.g., private practitioners or community agencies), in order to meet student needs that exceed the scope of services (or resources) of the Counseling Center.
* Participate in forums and workshops to address the developmental needs of students to maximize the potential of students to benefit from the academic environment and experience. Provide counseling and learning assistance information to prospective students, current students, families, faculty, and staff. Educate university community members regarding legal and ethical issues in mental health and higher education, and in the provision of counseling services. Consult with students, faculty, staff, parents, and outside mental health professionals regarding issues related to students' mental health. Provide outreach for crisis preparedness, response and recovery. Represent the Counseling Center by serving on various University committees (e.g., Orientation Planning Committee; search committees for new staff members in other offices within the Division of Student Affairs). Maintain professional skills/licensure through participation in continuing education activities, such as those found at national and local conferences and symposia. Assist in managing Counseling Center social media accounts and editing the Counseling Center website, as assigned by the Director.
Qualifications
Five (5) to six (6) years to earn doctoral degree, including at least three (3) years' worth of clinical placements plus a full-time, one-year pre-doctoral internship. Required doctorate in counseling psychology, clinical psychology, or related discipline from an APA-accredited program. Licensure or demonstrated immediate eligibility (within three months) for full, independent licensure as a Psychologist in the District of Columbia. Also, DC law requires unlicensed individuals with doctoral degrees in Psychology to at least have a DC Psychology Associate license (i.e., while awaiting full licensure) by the start date of the job, to be able to conduct client contact in the District of Columbia.
Strong clinical and supervisory skills. Strong knowledge of fundamental counseling and learning assistance roles, responsibilities, practices, essential programs and services. Ability to plan, organize, and set priorities. Strong knowledge of the clinical, legal, and ethical aspects of treating college students. Awareness of college student development, health, and welfare issues. Ability to translate knowledge and competencies into action and achievement. Strong service orientation and ability to relate effectively with diverse individuals and groups at all levels of an organization. Ability to work collegially and collaboratively. Demonstrated ability to be productive, deliver high quality work, take initiative, use good judgment, and solve problems. Strong ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and handle heavy workloads under pressure and within time deadlines. Ability to produce quality results, with limited resources. Knowledge and skills with automated computer systems; skills with use of university systems within three months of appointment.