Title:
Staff Psychologist/Clinician Embedded – Educational Opportunity Program
Department:
Counseling Center
Reports To:
Director Counseling Services
Position Type:
Staff
Position Summary:
The Staff Psychologist/Clinician – Embedded –
Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) provides culturally-informed direct mental
health services to EOP students as well as collaborates with the Educational
Opportunity program’s administrators and staff to provide outreach and
consultation. Responsibilities include: provision of
confidential clinical/mental health services with an emphasis on short-term
individual counseling/psychotherapy; group counseling; crisis intervention,
referral to off-campus resources; campus consultation; and development and
provision of outreach and wellness programming.
Competitive
candidates will have demonstrated expertise in multicultural and diversity
issues and experience in clinical and outreach services with multicultural populations,
including but not limited to Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC)
and underrepresented students. Job
responsibilities include providing triage, individual counseling and
psychotherapy, group therapy, crisis services and outreach programming. In
addition, the position involves making referrals to and coordinating care
with other C-CAPS providers including the C-CAPS consulting psychiatrist and
referrals to off-campus providers of psychological and psychiatric services.
Essential Functions:
1. Provides clinical/mental health
services to students enrolled in the Educational Opportunity program:
a. Provides walk-in/triage/initial consultation and intake assessment and short-term Individual counseling and psychotherapy
to student-clients.
b. Provides group counseling/psychotherapy to students-clients.
c. Provides clinical evaluation, follow-up, case management and referral services.
d. Provides crisis intervention, manages mental health emergencies
(e.g. suicide threats, acute psychotic
decompensation). Consults with director, other C-CAPS clinical staff and consulting psychiatrist
as needed.
e. Maintains client charts and makes periodic case presentations to
C-CAPS professional staff.
f. Provides focused psychological counseling groups and structured
topical workshops around mental health, wellness, personal
adjustment and human relations issues.
2. Develops formal and informal
lines of communication with NJIT staff, students, and faculty in the Educational Opportunity
Program including outreach programming and consultation services.
a. Provides consultation to Educational Opportunity staff and faculty around individual student problems;
b. Provides outreach to students focused on mental health and wellness topics such as stress management, anxiety/depression//suicide awareness, AOD, mental
LGBTQIA+ issues, women issues, men’s issues, sexual assault, diversity/students of color, eating disorders, etc.
c. Provides workshops/presentations for professional staff and paraprofessional staff (e.g. tutors, resident assistants, teaching assistants).
d. Provides workshops/presentations on relevant adjustment issues at
various orientation programs for new students
(e.g. first-year students).
3. Seeks clinical supervision from
Director as appropriate for students with serious psychological problems and crisis
intervention and as appropriate for other clinical issues and off-campus referrals.
Additional Functions:
1. Attends C-CAPS clinical group
supervision and case management meetings as required.
2. Participates in on-call rotation
and responds to psychological emergencies when on-call as needed.
3. Develops formal and informal
lines of communication with NJIT faculty, staff and students.
4. Provides training and
consultation to academic and administrative departments concerning mental health and wellness
issues.
5. Teaches First Year Seminar.
6. Serves on Division of Student
Affairs and institute committees as needed.
7. Keeps up with professional
developments in the psychological and counseling and outreach fields.
8. Participates in major
university events/programs such as orientation, Open House, parent/family sessions, etc.
9. Performs additional duties as
assigned.
Prerequisite Qualifications:
– Doctoral degree in Clinical or Counseling Psychology with 1-3 years of relevant experience, and fully licensed or license eligible as a Psychologist in New Jersey.
– Master’s degree and licensed as a Clinical Social Worker with 3-5 years of relevant experience.
– NJ Licensed Professional Counselor with 4+ years of experience.
– Experience working with a culturally diverse population including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) clients and individuals from underrepresented backgrounds.
– At the university’s discretion, the education and experience prerequisites may be exempted where the candidate can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the university, an equivalent combination of education and experience specifically preparing the candidate for success in the position.
Licenses and Certificates:
– Licensed
or license-eligible as a Psychologist in NJ.
– Fully Licensed as a Clinical Social Worker or Professional Counselor in NJ.
Preferred Qualifications:
– Professional experience in
college or university counseling/mental health center. Background and
interest in one or more of the following: suicide treatment/prevention,
stress management/anxiety disorders, men’s mental health/working with male
clients, EDI/multicultural counseling/cultural diversity, substance
abuse prevention/treatment, eating disorders, LGBTQIA+ issues,
sexual assault/relationship violence prevention/treatment.
Bargaining Unit:
PSA
Range/Band:
26
FLSA:
Exempt
Full-Time
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