Staff Counselor (Temporary)

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Job Title: Staff Counselor

Division: Student Affairs

Evaluation Group: Staff  

FLSA Status: Exempt

This is a temporary 12-week position, working 40 hours per week, beginning in August.

Job Summary

The staff counselor is responsible for providing clinical services, crisis management, and education/outreach related to mental health and substance use to Lindenwood University students. The staff counselor also builds rapport and relationships with students, faculty, staff, and campus/community partners.

Essential Job Functions and Performance Indicators

The intent of this job description is to provide a representation of the types of duties and level of responsibility that will be required of positions given this title. This job description shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Job Responsibilities and Execution

• Provides clinical evaluations to determine student needs and establish individualized treatment plans and goals

• Provides culturally sensitive individual and group counseling to a diverse student body that presents with a variety of challenges including, but not limited to, depression, anxiety, substance use, eating disorders, trauma, suicidal ideation, grief, personality disorders, and academic/family-related stressors

• Provides crisis intervention; assesses students in crisis; maintains working knowledge of diagnostic criteria; provides appropriate, effective therapeutic crisis intervention strategies

• Maintains timely and accurate psychotherapy records in the electronic health records system; upholds confidentiality

• Collaborates with community mental health providers, when appropriate, and provides outreach education and consultation

• Teaches relaxation, coping strategies, positive self-talk, and skills training to help students maintain academic goals and enhance and manage their college experience and transition into adulthood

• Provides oversight and supervision to interns of the counseling center and University program

• Assists the director with overseeing the administration of SCRC policies and procedures

• Maintains an active role in the development and implementation of the SCRC’s objectives and goals

• Develops marketing materials for the SCRC and Wellness Center; assists with strategic marketing to students, faculty, and staff

• Monitors and posts information to social media sites

• Participates in continuing education by attending conferences, seminars, and reading current scholarly articles

Service Excellence

• Supports the mission of the University and serves as an ambassador of the Q2 culture of service excellence

• Models, supports, and holds others accountable to the University’s values

• Maintains best practices for counseling a diverse student body

Communication, Teamwork, and Collaboration

• Works independently and collaboratively on a professional team

• Acts as a liaison to campus groups, offices, and faculty as needed

• Communicates any duty to warn issues

Job may require other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications – An equivalent combination of education, training and experience will be considered. Additional requirements may be designated by position.

• Master’s degree in counseling, clinical psychology, social work, or mental health counseling

• Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) designation in the state of Missouri

• Two years’ experience in providing evidenced-based psychotherapy (individual and group), preferably in a college/university counseling center setting