Counselor

The Counselor will provide evidence-based psychotherapy for individual, couple, and group counseling for students. Required to complete initial intakes, assessments, and develop individual treatment plans for students. Responsible for maintaining accurate documentation in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system. Provide case management, supportive counseling, and crisis intervention for students in an emergency crisis. Provide consultation for students, faculty, and staff to address immediate concerns that impact their wellbeing. Responsible as co-facilitator for various groups and organizations to implement outreach and psychoeducation programs for mental health awareness. The Counselor will be required to meet weekly to collaborate from the team approach to provide solutions for the students' overall wellbeing. This position requires the Counselor to provide (1) treatment services after regular business hours, including weekends, nights, and holidays as necessitated by emergencies and student's schedule (2) treatment related emergency transportation services for student is mandatory.

Daily Operations

• Conduct initial assessments, daily walk-in crisis services, and on-call responsibilities for after-hours emergency services.
• Provide individual, couple, and group with evidence-based psychotherapy for students.
• Maintain compliance as it relates to psychotherapeutic data and documentation with accuracy for student's health records based on code of ethics, judicial laws, and best evidence-based psychotherapy.
• Consult with psychiatrists to coordinate appropriate care through medication management while counseling students.
• Consultation with the students, physician, faculty, academic deans, other campus offices, and/or parents with appropriate authorization HIPPA compliance to provide quality care.
• Serve as liaison to Student Affairs and other departments providing psychoeducation outreach programs for MMC students.
• Participate in training programs for staff and faculty, to educate the campus on mental health and developmental issues.
• Assess and summarize ongoing MMC students' needs.
• Participate in Student Affairs and other University committees as assigned by the Director.
• Attend and participate in regular Counseling and Wellbeing Services weekly staff meetings, case conferences, and in-service/professional development training.
• Collaborate with key personnel to identify, assess, and monitor at-risk students.
• Maintain an electronic health record for clinical notes, scheduling, and developing reports.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• The ability to gather, interpret, and analyze data for the purpose of continuous improvement.
• Provide outreach and consultation to Meharry campus community.
• Knowledge and experience with mental health issues in higher learning education.
• Interpersonal skills, including effective oral, written, and listening communication capabilities.
• Utilize evidence-based practices to plan, coordinate, implement and evaluate mental health and wellness programming.
• The ability to provide psychological and other screening instruments as appropriate.

• Master's or Doctoral degree in counseling, psychology, or related field or a doctoral level degree (Ph.D., Psy.D., or Ed.D.) in clinical or counseling psychology required

• Licensed Professional Counselor/ MHSP
• Minimum of three (3) years of clinical experience providing psychotherapy for mental health concerns.
• Prior experience training and providing tele-mental health services.
• Knowledge, insight, and creativity to support the needs of a diverse student population.
• Training and experience in delivering compassionate and culturally competent interventions.
• Demonstrates outstanding clinical skills and a well-integrated understanding of short-term therapy, crisis intervention, community consultation, and outreach/developmental programming.
• Experience with crisis intervention and the ability to conduct risk assessments and manage potentially high-risk clients.
• Have experience in training and supervision.
• Must have experience and strong commitment to working with diverse student/client population, which includes ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, international and working cross-culturally.