SENIOR COUNSELOR - MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Application Deadline: Open until filled

Full Time/Part Time: Full Time, Benefit Eligible

Salary Minimum: $47,476 annually

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, walk-in assessments, consultations, and crisis intervention services. This position may also assist in training and supervision of master’s or doctoral level interns. As a JED Campus school, this position plays an integral part of our collaborative and multidisciplinary student wellbeing team. For department specific information, visit https://wellbeing.mst.edu.

Job Description

• Provides individual, group, and crisis counseling with around 70% direct service commitment
  
• Develops and delivers educational programs on self-management and mental health
  
• Consults with internal and external stakeholders, and with professional colleagues
  
• Contributes to gathering data, compiling information, and preparing reports
  
• Collaborates with colleagues on campus committees and initiatives
  
• Acts as a resource and/or mentor for colleagues
  
• 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
  
• Comfortable in the use of computer technology (Titanium software, email, web pages, PowerPoint, web-based surveys) to enhance services and outreach to students and campus
  
• Possesses highly developed skills to resolve complex and challenging clinical situations
  
• Possesses knowledge of best practices and desire to learn and incorporate new service methods
  
• Possesses professional liability insurance
  
• Training and experience promoting diversity, inclusion, and multicultural excellence
  
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of state and federal health care privacy laws, Title IX, VAWA, ADA, Title II, HIPAA, FERPA, and professional ethics

 
Comments
The final candidate is required to provide copies of official transcript(s) for any college degree(s) listed in application materials submitted. Copies of transcript(s) should be provided prior to the start of employment. In addition, the final candidate may be required to verify other credentials listed in application materials.

Failure to provide official transcript(s) or other required verification may result in the withdrawal of the job offer.

All job offers are contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check.

Equal Opportunity is and shall be provided for all employees and applicants for employment on the basis of their demonstrated ability and competence without unlawful discrimination on the basis of their race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable state or federal law. This policy shall not be interpreted in such a manner as to violate the legal rights of religious organizations or the recruiting rights of military organizations associated with the Armed Forces or the
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