Staff Clinician
Position Summary
Staff Clinicians provide counseling and mental health services to students enrolled at BGSU, as well as consultation with faculty, staff, families, and others who may be concerned about students. Services may include individual, group, and couples counseling; crisis intervention; consultation; outreach and psychoeducation; referral; and liaison activities. Clinicians may also provide training and supervision for mental health trainees who are providing services at the Counseling Center. Staff Clinicians typically serve as a liaison between the Counseling Center and one or more campus areas.
Essential Duties, Tasks and Responsibilities
Clinical services
- Provide culturally competent counseling for individuals, groups, and/or couples
- Provide on-call (crisis) and drop in services
- Engage in clinical consultation with students
Outreach, consultation, and liaison services
- Engage in third-party consultation with faculty, staff, families, students, and others about mental health concerns impacting students
- Facilitate and/or coordinate outreach and psychoeducational programming
- Perform liaison activities – work collaboratively with staff in offices outside the Counseling Center to identify student needs and develop, provide, and/or coordinate mental health services to meet those needs. May be assigned to specific functional areas. Counselors may work as a liaison to more than one campus area.
Supervision and training
- Provide training/clinical supervision for Counseling Center trainees, who are enrolled in graduate programs in mental health fields and are providing counseling services to students. Supervision is of trainees in masters level graduate programs and may provide supervision to doctoral interns in the APA accredited doctoral internship program.
- Facilitate training seminars and programs for Counseling Center trainees.
Administration and support
- Coordinate or oversee various activities and/or functions in the Center (e.g., group services, outreach programming, training experiences, electronic record-keeping systems)
- Complete documentation and case management in a timely manner
- Provide service to the Counseling Center, Division of Student Health and Wellness and University by participating in committee work
- Engage in professional development activities
Knowledge, Skills or Abilities
- Strong clinical skills.
- Experience with diverse clientele preferred.
- Ability to integrate knowledge of social justice, inclusion, oppression, privilege, and power into one’s professional practice.
- Knowledge of the negative mental health impact of social injustices.
- Ability to participate in activities that assess and communicate one’s understanding of inclusion, oppression, privilege, and power.
- Ability to advocate on issues of social justice, oppression, privilege, and power that impact people based on local, national, and global interconnections.
- Knowledge of ethics/laws pertaining to the provision of mental health care in the State of Ohio.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and consult as needed.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
Why BGSU Counseling Center:
- It’s an exciting time to join our center! There is opportunity for a staff clinician to be involved in the creation of programming, work within a center that practices from a social justice framework, and work with a multidisciplinary team.
- In our effort to practice from a social justice framework we are committed to focusing on our individual and collectively as a center, actions that promote social justice within collegiate mental health. We demonstrate this by our programming/groups and campus partnerships. We do not have it perfected by any means and recognize this and strive to continue to do better with our social justice practices.
- If you have ideas that you believe will positively impact the BGSU community, there is opportunity to explore these ideas at our center.
- Numerous opportunities to collaborate with colleagues within the center as well as across the campus. Staff clinicians at BGSU have opportunities to develop and engage in liaison work with campus partners
- Staff clinicians are involved in supervising graduate masters level students completing their practicums or internships. Additionally, in this role, clinicians may provide supervision to doctoral interns in our APA accredited training site. .
- The staff clinician position affords the opportunity to be engaged in comprehensive services ranging from providing clinical services, supervision, liaison work, and outreach.
- Staff clinicians also participate in center-based committee work that focuses on a variety of areas including outreach, diversity, social justice, clinical services, or training.
Minimum Requirements
Master’s degree required. Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling, Social Work, or related field preferred. Degree must be obtained before start date.
The following experience is required:
- Minimum of 1-year experience in the provision of mental health services, which can include up to a 2-year supervised internship. An internship counts half time professional experience.
Licenses that are required to qualify for the position:
- Licensed Professional Counselor or Counselor Trainee license. To be considered with Counselor Trainee status, the candidate must have passed the National Counselor Examination and be eligible for licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor by start date.
- Licensed Independent Social Workers will also be considered. Must have successfully completed all requirements for licensure including coursework and licensure exams for consideration
Salary
Full-time administrative staff position. Salary is commensurate with education and experience. Administrative pay grade 354. Full benefits package available.
Deadline to apply: The search committee will review applications until the position is filled; however, for best consideration, applications should be provided by ‘December 19, 2022’.
Why work at BGSU?
Full-time BGSU employees enjoy an array of exceptional benefits, including:
- Quality, affordable health insurance: Various coverage options available for health, vision and dental starting the first day of the month following your date of employment.
- Generous paid time off: Vacation, holidays, sick days and more.
- Excellent work life balance resources: Our Employee Assistance Program offers confidential support to employees and their eligible family members, along with ancillary programs covering identity theft, elder care, legal services and more.
- Tuition fee waivers: For eligible employees, spouses and dependent children.
- Professional development opportunities: For skills training, supervisor and leadership programs, performance management, online courses and online tools for employee growth and development.
- Parental leave: Up to five weeks of paid parental leave for full-time employees with at least 12 months of continuous service.
- Retirement: BGSU offers several options for meeting your retirement goals with a current employer contribution of up to 14% depending on the retirement program selected. Read More about the option that best fits your needs.
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To Apply
For a complete job description & to apply for this position visit https://bgsu.hiretouch.com/ or contact the Office of Human Resources at (419) 372-8421. BGSU. AA/EEO/Disabilities/Veterans. In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with Bowling Green State University, please call 419-372-8421.