Master's Level Mental Health Provider (9 Month Assignment Period)

Job Title Master's Level Mental Health Provider (9 month assignment period) Department Health Center Wellness & Counseling Job Code A42311 Job category Full Time Staff Terms and Hours Full Time Exempt, 9-month position with assignment period mid-August thru mid-May Salary Range Starting Salary $55,000; commensurate with experience Job Summary

The mission of the Student Wellness Center, Counseling Center (CC) is to provide comprehensive, high-quality, compassionate, and accessible mental health services to students at the University of Portland. The CC incorporates multicultural humility into all services and affirms the dignity of all students who access care.

This Master's Level Mental Health Provider offers counseling and evaluation services, crisis management, and wellness education to University of Portland students. This position coordinates care with other CC mental health care providers to promote the mental health and wellbeing of students. This position also helps develop and implement mental health education, outreach, and prevention programming.

This full-time position works a 9 month assignment period from mid-August thru mid-Ma y in alignment with the academic year, with benefits eligibility for all 12 months of the year.

Core Duties

• Provide a wide range of direct clinical services to students; including individual, group, urgent response services, mental health evaluation, and outreach.

• Provide comprehensive and culturally-appropriate mental health services and programs to a diverse student population.

• Conduct phone triage and schedule students for intake, on going mental health services, or referral to outside providers, including after-hours care services. Follow up on referral processes to ensure that students are receiving necessary health care services.

• Provide intake evaluations and counseling.

• Provide crisis assessment, intervention, and management to students of concern or in crisis; assess need for higher-level care.

• Evaluate and respond to emergency situations; provide consultation to campus for urgent/crisis situations.

• Provide hands on case management for students needing assistance with navigating off campus referrals.

• Track students of concern or requiring higher levels of care, participate in discharge planning, and manage referrals.

• Work with other CC staff, faculty, administrators, and University staff in consultation, outreach, and other collaborative initiatives.

• Develop and provide group mental health counseling services through different group modalities such as process, psychoeducational, and population specific groups to University students.

• Develop campus outreach through participation in educational programming and additional program development.

• Engage in campus collaboration by serving on campus committees that oversee student care, wellbeing, and mental health.

• Engage in CC meetings and development activities; complete special projects as assigned, including policy and procedure development.

• Conduct seminar/rotation training.

• Provide supervision to meet educational requirements of trainee institutions.

Other duties as relevant to the duties of the position or as assigned by supervisor or designee.

Please note that the above list of duties is not comprehensive but generally demonstrates the types of matters under this position's purview and responsibility.

Education & Experience

• Required: Master's Degree in social work, marriage and family therapy, counseling, or other relevant field of study.

• Preferred: 2+ years' post licensure experience providing direct mental health services.

• Preferred: Experience providing clinical services in a collegiate mental health setting.

• Preferred: Experience providing suicide risk assessment, intervention, and prevention services.

Certifications & Licenses

• Required: Licensed or license eligible to practice as an LPC, LCSW, or LMFT in Oregon.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Ability to learn, respect, and contribute to the mission of the University of Portland and the traditions of the Holy Cross.

• Knowledge, skill, and ability related to implementation of the holistic concept for health care delivery.

• Effectiveness and experience working in interdisciplinary clinical and educational settings.

• Able to provide comprehensive mental health evaluations; has broad knowledge of empirically-based interventions; has consultation experience; has experience working with adolescents and adults.

• Working understanding of DSM-V nosology; able to recognize areas of competency and limitations; able to work form and work within an interdisciplinary model.

• Knowledge of applicable laws, rules, guidelines, and best practices relevant to a university counseling center.

• Knowledge of and ability to learn referral sources within and outside the University.

• Knowledge of and ability to protect and maintain the client's right to privacy and confidentiality, including ability to comply with all legal regulations and professional standards in this area.

• Knowledge of and ability to navigate the differences between FERPA and HIPAA and how they impact provision of counseling services at an institution of higher education.

• Able to implement appropriate interventions to support health, wellness, and student success, and able to continually monitor outcomes of interventions.

• Excellent judgment.

• Effective in emergency, crisis, or otherwise serious situations.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal and customer services skills.

• Able to effectively receive and implement supervisory direction. Ability to work independently as well as in an interdisciplinary team setting.

• Thorough and detail oriented.

• Effective in following required processes, including following documentation requirements.

• Ability to effectively manage patients and balance multiple priorities.

• Ability to organize and follow through with complex tasks to meet deadlines.

• Ability to anticipate problems and take necessary action to eliminate or mitigate them.

• Competence with and commitment to diversity and inclusion; ability to be an effective partner with diverse students, faculty, and staff.

• Ability to establish effective working relationships, professional rapport, and effectively accomplish work within a University setting that includes a wide array of individuals, groups, policies, and processes.

• Effective ability to use and learn computers, technology, software, and applications at level of sophistication required for the duties of the position, including, without limitation, Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), the internet, and computerized maintenance management systems.

• All University of Portland positions require the ability to quickly learn and use new technologies, software, and applications in depth and at level of proficiency required for duties of the position. In most situations, the necessity of learning, using, and supporting new technologies, software, and/or applications does not change a job description nor make the position one that involves higher level duties.

Physical Requirements

• Frequently: sit, perform desk-based computer tasks; read; write by hand; sort and file paperwork; use a telephone.

• Frequently: stand and walk; twist; lift, carry, push, and pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds.

• Frequently: interact and communicate with others persons (including, but not limited to, students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni, and friends of the University).

• As necessary: attend events on or off campus

Working Conditions

• Hours of employment: may require working flexible hours, including early mornings, regular office hours, evenings, and occasional weekends and holidays.

• Work-related stress: stress from work-related situations such as those involving an emergency, a crisis, a challenging situation, an urgent or time-sensitive situation, or a situation involving multiple matters.

Work Standards

• Respect for the University's mission and Catholic identity: demonstrates commitment to learning, respecting, and contributing to the mission of the University, a Catholic and Congregation of Holy Cross institution. The University's mission statement states in relevant part: "we pursue teaching and learning, faith and formation, service and leadership in the classroom, residence halls, and the world." The University's Statement of Inclusion states in relevant part: "Our belief in the inherent dignity of each person is founded upon the social teaching of the Catholic Church. At the center of that teaching is the fundamental mandate that every person, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social or economic class, age, or disability shall be treated with respect and dignity."

• The full Mission Statement is at: www.up.edu/about/mission.

• The full Statement of Inclusion is at: www.up.edu/disclosures/inclusion.

• Promote culture of safety: demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.

• Compliance with laws and policies and procedures: subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University, departmental, and other applicable policies and procedures, including but not limited to, the personnel, business, and/or other policies of the University.

• Compliance with driving-related laws and requirements: when conducting university business while driving, must comply with the Oregon Vehicle Code and University of Portland driving requirements.

• Interpersonal skills: demonstrates the ability to work professionally with all University of Portland community members, external organizations, and any other person or organization employee interacts with in his or her University capacity.

Benefits

Medical and dental insurance, life insurance, sick time and vacation time consistent with University policies, long-term disability insurance, flexible spending account benefits, tuition remission benefits generally starting after 90 days (employee) or 2 years (spouse and children) of employment, retirement contributions generally starting after 2 years of employment, and eligibility for the University's home purchase assistance program consistent with program requirements. (Benefits are subject to all relevant University policies, practices, contracts, and any other relevant materials.)

Posting Detail Information

Posting Number S128-2023 Number of Vacancies Estimated Start Date Open Date Close Date Open Until Filled No Special Instructions Summary