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Job Title: Resident in Counseling
Department: Student Life
Supervisor: Lead Counselor
FLSA Classification: Non-Exempt
Schedule: Regular, 9mo., PT (15-20 hours)
Job Summary
The resident counselor will provide short-term individual, group, and crisis counseling; consultation services and outreach programming; initial assessments and after-hours emergency coverage for EMU undergraduate and graduate students.
Duties/Responsibilities
Establish open lines of communication for individuals with mental or emotional issues.
Offer assistance to individuals with substance abuse issues.
Provide brief psychotherapy and or prevention-oriented therapy.
Implement and review treatment plans.
Collaborate with additional treatment providers and placement agencies.
Ensure all documentation is completed in a timely manner.
Responds to professional or clinical feedback.
Participate in organizational and clinical staff meetings and other university-wide meetings as appropriate.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Completed all requirements for their master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from a CACREP-accredited graduate program OR their doctoral degree in counseling or clinical psychology from an APA-approved graduate program, prior to the start of residency.
Physical Requirements
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit and use hands and fingers, to handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and climb or balance. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
Supervisory Responsibilities
None
Department: Student Life
Supervisor: Lead Counselor
FLSA Classification: Non-Exempt
Schedule: Regular, 9mo., PT (15-20 hours)
Job Summary
The resident counselor will provide short-term individual, group, and crisis counseling; consultation services and outreach programming; initial assessments and after-hours emergency coverage for EMU undergraduate and graduate students.
Duties/Responsibilities
Establish open lines of communication for individuals with mental or emotional issues.
Offer assistance to individuals with substance abuse issues.
Provide brief psychotherapy and or prevention-oriented therapy.
Implement and review treatment plans.
Collaborate with additional treatment providers and placement agencies.
Ensure all documentation is completed in a timely manner.
Responds to professional or clinical feedback.
Participate in organizational and clinical staff meetings and other university-wide meetings as appropriate.
Perform other duties as assigned.
- The resident will also participate in organizational and clinical staff meetings and other university-wide meetings as appropriate.
- Well-developed skills in providing brief psychotherapy for a student population.
- Interest in and commitment to university counseling work and college student
- development
- A collaborative spirit of warmth, acceptance, respect, and trust towards colleagues
- Interest in working within the program's developmental-practitioner model
- A willingness and ability to explore one's sense of self, have the capacity to self-reflect,
- and use one's self-awareness effectively to further personal and professional growth
- Awareness and practice of ACA professional ethical standards and practices
- Energy to flexibly manage the professional demands of a challenging caseload while
- maintaining positive and healthy perspectives and relationships
- Self-motivation, self-direction, and commitment to high professional ideals
- An appreciation for and experience with working with students from traditionally
- underrepresented groups and issues pertinent to these populations
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Dedication to the exploration of diversity variables in professional and personal settings
Completed all requirements for their master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling from a CACREP-accredited graduate program OR their doctoral degree in counseling or clinical psychology from an APA-approved graduate program, prior to the start of residency.
Physical Requirements
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit and use hands and fingers, to handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and climb or balance. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
Supervisory Responsibilities
None
