Part-time Accessibility/Disability Services Specialist - CCOM Medical Student Counseling Center, Office of Student Affairs and Curriculum (OSAC)

This position serves as main point of contact for disability services and related student needs at Carver College of Medicine, Medical Student Counseling Center. This is a .5 FTE position. Facilitate the interactive process of identifying reasonable accommodations for students in collaboration with faculty, educational staff, and administrators. Address psychological needs of medical and physician assistant students through individual, group, and/or couples counseling. Provide outreach and programming aimed at improving students’ well-being. Collaborate with other mental health professionals in planning and providing services. Consult with administrators, faculty, and staff in supporting students. Enhance the emotional and behavioral health and effective functioning of our constituents by creating, delivering and evaluating clinical and non-clinical/consultative programs and services. Provide clinical counseling, assessment and consultative services. Incumbents in this job family are required to be a State of Iowa licensed mental health provider. 

The Medical Student Counseling Center serves approximately seven hundred medical and physician assistant students. The Center provides counseling services and outreach programs to enhance medical and physician assistant students’ mental health and well-being, fostering personal, academic and career success in a confidential and safe environment. The Center is committed to professionalism, excellence, and creating a successful community within the Carver College of Medicine. 

Primary Duties

Provision of Clinical Services and Programs

• Coordinate reasonable accommodations request and identification process, including intake process, for students with physical, psychiatric, learning, hearing, visual, and temporary disabilities to determine eligibility for accommodation.
• Track approved accommodations and ensure timely communication to necessary faculty, staff, and clinical sites to support implementation. 
• Determine and address emotional and behavioral needs of medical and physician assistant students through individual, group, and/or couples counseling. 
• Manage emergent crises. 
• Demonstrate competency in working with students, faculty, and staff from a full range of groups. 
• Provide clinical consultation to others. 
• Perform risk assessments. 
• Design and implement programs and outcome evaluations. 
• Use expertise to impact the field of study/profession.

Educational / Professional Training

• Maintain current knowledge of state and federal disability-related laws, rules, and regulations.
• Maintain current knowledge of assistive technologies and best practices for serving students with disabilities in a medical education.
• Develop and deliver outreach and education sessions on disability access in medical education to the College of Medicine community.
• Develop and deliver outreach on timely topics affecting medical and physician assistant student well-being such as, healthy habits (sleep, nutrition, exercise), burnout, stress management, mindfulness and relaxation, and/or interpersonal relationships. 
• Provide individual wellness consultations, class presentations, and workshops. 
• Contribute to building and sustaining a responsive learning environment through personal reflection and professional development; individual, group, and community interactions; and assessment of center policies and practices.
• May provide clinical sup