The Intake Specialist/Triage Counselor is an integral part of clinical service access to the counseling center. The center is responsible for all mental health services for students at NC State. The first point of access to services would occur through this clinician. This position would interact with and assess needs of students as well as determine if immediate risk is evident. A major focus of the job duties would be to partner with existing staff members to connect students to needed services either immediately or by appointment. Specific functions would include providing professional assessment, crisis, counseling and outreach services to NC State students as well as consultation to University administrators, staff and others who have concerns about the mental/emotional status of NC State students. This position acts as a screener for risk and must be knowledgeable in determining appropriate modalities of care such as individual, group, couples counseling and assessment. Strong flexibility and adaptability is needed to manage the demands of when to refer and when to assess as the primary clinician. Team skills will be utilized to collaborate all treatment decisions for students.After hours crisis response, assessment, on-call and coordination is necessary as well as providing prevention and intervention outreach and consultation.The team approach is used during shared Risk Assessment. As part of a counseling center in-house team, this staff member will evaluate risk level of incoming students, assist in identifying and tracking of at risk students as well as assisting in follow-up consultations, act as a “first responder” to students in crisis and make determinations for referral, level of care and primary modality of treatment.