Staff Psychologist

The Highlights: The Staff Psychologist is a full-time position within University Counseling & Psychological Services (UCAPS) that requires an experienced doctoral-level psychologist to provide triage, psychological evaluation/intake assessment, individual, couples, and group psychological counseling, and crisis intervention to a diverse DePaul undergraduate, graduate and professional students at Lincoln Park and/or Loop Campus within a brief therapy framework.  This full-time professional will provide outreach and consultation to staff, faculty, students and parents.  The Staff Psychologist provides crisis counseling and consultation for daytime and after hours psychological emergencies 24/7 rotated among staff members.  The Staff Psychologist actively participates in UCAPS clinical training program by providing supervision for master-level and doctoral-level trainees and maintains clinical records in accordance with legal and professional standards.  
 

What You'll Do:

•  Provides high quality counseling, psychological and crisis management services for DePaul students enrolled in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.  
  -Provides in-person and/or telemental health triage, intakes, group counseling and brief individual psychological counseling focused on student success.
  -Provides in-the-moment phone crisis support, guidance & brief case management to DePaul students who are currently enrolled and residing in or out of Illinois State, other countries, and study abroad programs.
  -Maintains clinical records and necessary statistics of psychotherapeutic and other client contacts in compliance with legal and ethical standards and best practices.  
  -Consults with psychiatrists in conjunction with prescribing and monitoring psychotropic medication for psychotherapy patients.
  -Consults with parents, physicians, faculty, academic deans, residence education staff, off-campus counseling services, other campus offices and students, when appropriate, in order to provide quality care to students. 
  -Provides drop-in crisis and risk assessment, urgent and emergent counseling services. 
  -Develops safety plans and facilitates psychiatric hospitalizations as necessary.
  -Supervises trainees with clinical crises and urgent care situations.
  -Conducts psychological testing as applicable or needed.
  -Provides consultations to staff psychologists and/or mental health clinicians regarding high risk clients.
  -Manage follow-up with high risk students and students who have been hospitalized to ensure appropriate supports are in place to optimize student safety.
  -Provides on-call after-hours, weekend and holiday coverage 24/7 on a rotating basis with other UCAPS staff members.    
  -Provides some evening and weekend counseling and support services.
  -Provides Emergent Response Support services to students and campus partners as assigned by the Director.
• Supervises unlicensed professional staff members and doctoral-level externs and interns.   
  -Supervises, designs and participates in training experiences for doctoral-level graduate trainees in accord with high standards of care and academic program learning outcomes. 
  -Provides case management oversight and consultation to trainees, as assigned.
  -Leads training seminars for doctoral-level interns and externs.
• Participates in regular UCAPS staff meetings, case conferences, and in-service/professional development training.   
  -Serves on Student Affairs and university committees as appointed by the Director. 
  -Develops didactic and psychoeducational presentations to groups inside and outside of University Counseling & Psychological Services. 
  -Organizes and presents to UCAPS staff members based on areas of specialty and clinical expertise. 
  -Provides administrative coordination of the Group Program or Outreach Program as assigned by the Director.
• Administrative Duties. 
  -Notes writing.  
• Provides outreach and consultation to students, faculty, staff and parents. 
  -Conducts outreach and other student learning programs, as requested, orientation sessions for new students and emergency and postvention support to the campus community, as needed. 
  -Conducts organized mental health awareness campaigns such as National Depression Screening Day, Eating Disorders Awareness Day
  -Develops and implements trainings on mental health awareness for Resident Advisors and student leaders.
  -Participates in campus-based mental health initiatives organized by UCAPS such as suicide prevention programs.
  -Stays current on relevant research and best practices regarding psychological services to the college student population.
  -Develops psychoeducational programming to address campus mental health and climate issues. 
• Supervises unlicensed professional staff members, and/or master-le