Part-time Personal Counselor (Pool) Job at San Mateo County Community College Di

Position Title

Part-time Personal Counselor (Pool)

Location

Student Services CSM (DEPT)

Position Number

PTF121

Percentage of Full Time

Varies

FLSA

Exempt (does not accrue overtime)

Salary Range

Placement on the adjunct faculty salary schedule is based upon education and credited experience. Initial placement can range from $71.80 up to $98.02 per hour.

Position Type

Part-Time Faculty, Temporary

Who We Are

The San Mateo County Community College District is committed to achieving educational equity for all students...

The College and the District

The San Mateo County Community College District is home to Cañada College, College of San Mateo, and Skyline College...

Who We Want

We value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities and orientations...

The Position

The Colleges seek a part-time Personal Counselor. The ideal candidate will share the college’s commitment to supporting a racially and socioeconomically diverse student population...

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides individual personal counseling to students; sets and maintains regularly scheduled hours of operation under the guidance of the Director of the Wellness Center.
• Provides coordination and support with the Personal Counseling program, for example, possible co-facilitation of workshops and events in partnership with the Mental Health Peer Educator Program.
• Assesses the personal counseling needs of students and provides appropriate support and services.
• Provides crisis intervention services to students and consults with faculty and staff as needed.
• Develops and maintains confidential client records in accordance with applicable standards of practice and federal and state laws and regulations.
• Provides referrals to community mental health services as needed.
• Collaborates closely with the Wellness Center in the delivery of programs and services.
• Consults with students and staff about mental health, and may advise faculty and staff on best practices for supporting students.
• Attends relevant meetings, such as individual and group clinical supervision if working towards licensure.
• Provides relevant outreach about personal counseling services to the campus community and establishes relationships with campus partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s degree or above in counseling, rehabilitation counseling, clinical psychology, counseling psychology, guidance counseling, educational counseling, social work, career development, marriage and family therapy, or marriage, family and child counseling OR the equivalent (see below) Note: A Bachelor’s degree in one of the listed degrees above and a license as a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) is an alternative qualification for this discipline
• Clinical experience with individuals and groups, preferably in a college setting
• Demonstrated cultural competence, sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, faculty, and staff
• Demonstrated effectiveness in providing crisis intervention

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Ability to maintain student personal counseling notes in the college’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, in a timely and effective manner.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating in-reach and outreach activities and promoting mental health services.
• Experience in providing short-term equity-minded and culturally responsive personal counseling services to students from diverse backgrounds.
• Experience developing innovative programs that strengthen the quality of personal counseling services to students.
• Knowledge of and experience making appropriate internal and external referrals.
• Experience in personal counseling in a California community college or similar setting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Recent experience working with racially minoritized and other disproportionately impacted students and an understanding of how historical patterns of exclusion of these groups within higher education and particular fields shape patterns of participation and outcomes
• Mental health workshop facilitation and campus event planning experience preferred
• Mental Health Clinician License or Associate Therapist (such as Licensed Clinical Psychologist, LMFT, LPCC, LCSW, AMFT, and APCC)