Professional Practice Assistant Professor - Rehabilitation Counseling

Overview

The Utah State University (USU) Rehabilitation Counseling program (RCP) seeks to hire a Professional Practice Assistant Professor with experience working in a variety of rehabilitation counseling settings.

 

This position will have a heavy focus on teaching and advising in the USU RCP and teaching responsibilities will be dispersed across the fall, spring, and summer semesters. The majority of courses in the USU RCP are delivered using distance technologies and use both live-broadcast and asynchronous methods of instruction.

 

The highly qualified candidate will collaborate with university colleagues and community members and teach courses in the Master’s of Rehabilitation Counseling program. In addition to serving those with mental health concerns, special consideration would be given to applicants with a history of serving individuals with physical, cognitive, and intellectual disabilities with co-occurring mental health concerns.

 

This position will be physically located at the USU main campus in Logan. This is a 1.0 FTE, term appointment, nine-month academic year position.

 

Review of applications will begin May 1, 2023, and continue until the position is filled. The anticipated start date is August 2023, depending on the availability of the selected candidate.

 

Additional information or questions concerning the position can be sent to Dr. Trenton Landon, Search Committee Chair, (435-797-3269, trent.landon@usu.edu).

Responsibilities

Serve as a member of the Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling faculty; this entails:

Designing and delivering coursework according to accreditation and program expectations;

Teaching on-campus and distance graduate classes in the Rehabilitation Counseling Master’s program;

Summer teaching;

Advising, mentoring, and providing clinical supervision to graduate students;

Participating in department and university program development, committees, and service activities; and

Collaborating with other department faculty in writing grants for extramural funding.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Hold master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling or a closely related field, preferably from a CACREP accredited program.

Hold or be eligible for full-licensure within the State of Utah as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CMHC; https://dopl.utah.gov/cmhc/);

Have experience providing rehabilitation counseling to a variety of clients;

Have knowledge of technology-enhanced college teaching and electronic distance education modalities (both synchronous and asynchronous);

Possess expertise in multicultural teaching modalities and clinical competencies;

Have experience providing direct career exploration and development or other services to individuals with disabilities;

Have a history of positive working relationships with counseling professionals and faculty; and

Show evidence of the potential to be an excellent college-level teacher.

Preferred Qualifications

Preference will be given to candidates who have one or more of the following qualifications:

Hold or be eligible to sit for the Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC);

Record of successful teaching in support of rehabilitation or mental health counseling education and programs;

Experience providing mental health counseling services to individuals with co-occurring physical, cognitive, or intellectual disabilities; and,

Experience supervising practicum and internship students.

Required Documents

Along with the online application, please attach:

Current curriculum vita or resume to be uploaded in the Candidate Profile under "Resume/CV"

If available, copies of course evaluations from the two most recently taught courses and/or a published writing sample to be uploaded in the Candidate Profile under Documents 1-10

Contact information for three professional references to be entered in the Candidate Profile 

A letter of application that specifically addresses your qualifications for this position to be typed/pasted at the end of your application

All application materials must be provided through the USU Jobs site

 

**Document size may not exceed 10 MB.**

Advertised Salary

Commensurate with education and experience, plus excellent benefits.

ADA

Employees typically work indoors and are protected from weather and/or contaminants, but not, necessarily, occasional temperature changes.  

College/Department Highlights

Department and Program Highlights

The Department of Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling is located in the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services. The department offers programs in Rehabilitation Counseling (Master’s), Special Education (Undergraduate, Master’s, Alternative Teacher Preparation), and sponsors the Ph.D. in Disability Disciplines with specializations in (a) rehabilitation counselor education and supervision, (b) special education, (c) applied behavior analysis, (d) speech/language pathology, (e) audiology, (f) pathokinesiology, and (g) disabilities studies. Faculty value a highly collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to the inclusion of people with disabilities across the lifespan.

 

Graduates from the USU RCP are prepared as rehabilitation counselors who work with individuals with disabilities and their families. The USU RCP faculty teach distance students using synchronous and asynchronous delivery. The USU RCP is fully accredited by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) and is ranked 15th in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report (2019). Over the last six years, an average of 22 degree-seeking students were enrolled in the program per year. Our graduates pass the Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC) examination at a consistently high rate and are hired in rehabilitation counselor positions across the nation. Students are eligible for other national counseling certification exams and consistently pass those examinations as well.

 

Faculty have the opportunity to work with numerous state rehabilitation organizations, and on-campus programs such as the Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling Service Line (https://cehs.usu.edu/scce/services/clinical-rehabilitation-counseling) and other community clinics housed within the Sorenson Legacy Foundation Center for Clinical Excellence (https://scce.usu.edu ), the Institute for Disability Research, Policy and Practice (a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities), the EmployAbility Clinic (which provides employment services to individuals with disabilities in the community), the Aggies Elevated program (an on-campus residential post-secondary education program for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities) and other grant-funded projects (e.g., the Utah Assistive Technology Program, the National Center on Disability and Access to Education (NCDAE), and Autism Support Services - Education Research, and Training (ASSERT)).

 

College Highlights

The Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services is home to eight academic departments and is committed to providing the best learning opportunities and educational research in the state of Utah. Our programs are strengthened by an on-campus elementary laboratory school and five stand-alone centers, including the Sorenson Legacy Foundation Center for Clinical Excellence. The college offers clinical services to the community across the human lifespan and provides students with real-world service and research opportunities.

University Highlights

Utah State University (USU) was founded in 1888 and is Utah’s land-grant and space-grant university. USU is one of only 146 research institutions in the U.S. classified as R1 “very high research activity” by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. As one of the two premier research institutions in Utah, USU provides a high-quality education at an affordable price. With its main campus in Logan, the university serves approximately 27,500 students, including 24,255 undergraduates and 3,171 graduate students. USU Online has served students from all 50 states and 55 countries for 25 years.

 

USU’s statewide system features three residential campuses, 30 total campus locations, and 23 Extension education centers. The university employs 903 full-time faculty members, 124 executive administrators, and 1,649 full-time support staff. USU offers 115 undergraduate majors, as well as 91 master’s and 42 doctoral degrees. Learn more about USU.

 

A core characteristic of USU is engagement with communities and people in economic development, improvements to quality of life, and human capital. Through the practical application of knowledge, the University and its faculty engage and share expertise with the state, nation, and world, preserving the historical land-grant tradition of partnering with communities to address critical societal issues in the interest of the public good.

 

The USU main campus is located in beautiful Logan, Utah, a city of about 50,000 situated in a picturesque mountain valley about 80 miles north of Salt Lake City. Outstanding recreational opportunities abound in the nearby mountains and proximate region.

 

USU is sensitive to the needs of dual career couples and provides a Dual Career Assistance program to support careers for partners who are also seeking employment.

 

USU endeavors to provide reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access in all aspects of employment to qualified persons with disabilities. To request a reasonable accommodation for a disability, please contact the university’s ADA Coordinator in the Human Resource office at 435-797-0122 or submit a request at hr@usu.edu.

 

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Executive Director of the Office of Equity Matthew Pinner, discrimination@usu.edu, Distance Education Rm. 401, 435-797-1266

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*updated 11/2022