Staff Counselor: Multicultural Focus - Bellarmine University
Bellarmine University
Application
Details
Posted: 01-Apr-23
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 160694
Location: Louisville, KY Category: Staff Positions Posted On: Fri Mar 31 2023 Job Description:
This position, housed within The Bellarmine University Counseling Center, provides short-term mental health services including personal counseling, crisis intervention, triage assessment, case management, consultation, clinical supervision/training for graduate trainees, referrals, and outreach psychoeducation/programming. The position has a special focus on supporting the mental health needs of BIPOC and LGBTQ students and will serve in liaison role with the Dr. Patricia Carver Office of Identity and Inclusion as well as the Department of Athletics. Approximately 20% of time will be committed to promoting and supporting the mental health needs of student athletes from underrepresented populations.
Essential Responsibilities include:
Provide short-term mental health counseling in individual and group format, including case management and referrals
Clinically supervise and train 1-2 graduate practicum students
Provide crisis intervention, intake assessment, and triage coverage for the Counseling Center
Maintain timely progress notes, reports, and record keeping
Serve in the on-call duty rotation for the Counseling Center
Conduct outreach programming and consultation
Participate in weekly case conference and staff meetings
Participate in university service (committees, meetings)
Perform other duties as assigned by the Associate Dean/Counseling Center Director
Job Requirements:
Master's degree in mental health field (e.g. social work, counseling, psychology, marriage and family therapy, or related field).
Licensed or license eligible within 6 months as independent mental health provider in Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Experience and interest in working within short-term therapy model.
Experience and demonstrated effectiveness in providing mental health services to underrepresented populations (BIPOC, LGBTQ, and intersecting identities).
Demonstrated commitment to the active promotion of social justice and advocacy.
Preferred Qualifications:
Professional experience providing clinical services to college students and/or young adults.
Experience and training in provision of telehealth services
Additional Information:
Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected class.
Bellarmine University is a dynamic, growing university with a strong liberal arts focus in the Catholic higher education tradition and a bold vision for the future. Bellarmine has undergraduate and graduate enrollment of nearly 4,000 students, and continues to add new academic programs while maintaining small class sizes and personal attention to students. Bellarmine is listed in the Princeton Review's Best 382 Colleges, is one of the top 15 Southern regional universities in U.S. News and World Report's 2018 college rankings, and is a top university in Forbes' list of America's best colleges. In a survey by The Princeton Review, students praised Bellarmine as a place that is "welcoming to every single person and makes an effort to include everyone." Bellarmine students, faculty and staff engage in more than 25,000 cumulative hours of service each year, in Louisville and around the nation and world. Bellarmine is located on a scenic 175-acre campus in the Highlands neighborhood of Louisville, KY, which Glassdoor recently recognized one of the nation's top 10 cities where pay goes the furthest, and National Geographic calls it a top 10 food city. ZipRecruiter calls Louisville a top 1...0 city for job seekers, thanks in part to its central location and low unemployment. Louisville is within a day's drive of two-thirds of the U.S. population. Bellarmine is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and encourages applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply. Bellarmine University is committed to core values of diversity, equity and inclusion and embraces diversity in our workforce among members of faculty, staff and administration. We remain committed to affirmative actions, policies, procedures and attitudes necessary to continue to build and retain a diverse and equitable workforce. We will demonstrate a fully realized and lived commitment to equity and inclusion, empowering all members of our increasingly diverse community and supporting them to achieve their full potential. As part of Bellarmine's commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, we will seek to ensure that all aspects of employment, including recruitment, selection, job assignment, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, layoff and termination processes remain free of discrimination based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.