Mental Health Counselor
Job Description
Reporting to the Director of Counseling, Counselors provide mental health services to enrolled students. Primary responsibilities are providing individual, couples, and group psychotherapy, performing initial evaluations, and providing crisis interventions. Counseling staff provide training to students, faculty, and staff on a variety of relevant topics related to the interplay between emotional wellbeing and academic performance. Additional responsibilities include providing consultation services to staff, faculty, administrators, and families; designing and delivering mental health programming and outreach services to the college community; and other duties as assigned.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Conduct psychosocial assessments of students referred by staff, faculty and self.
- Provide individual and group counseling and psychotherapy services that are responsive to a diverse population of students.
- Provide prevention and outreach around the issues of neurodiversity and mental health.
- Provide guidance and support to staff and faculty in need of assistance and support while responding to emergencies and crisis interventions with students.
- Develop a referral network and refer, where appropriate, students to professionals outside the College, including arrangements for emergency in-patient care.
- Participate in the development of policies and operating procedures related to Counseling Services.
- Participate in Family Orientation, consult with parents as appropriate and participate in Family Weekend as necessary.
- Participate in regular staff and faculty meetings.
- Attend residential life meetings and other meetings as appropriate for the coordination of care for individual students and as supportive of the healthy growth and development of students in general.
- Provide service in accordance with legal and ethical mandates.
- Provide thorough and accurate documentation.
- Provide consultation services to student groups, and to faculty and staff, which address the psychological and emotional wellbeing of students and their developmental needs.
- Participate in student orientations, workshops, and programs that provide information to individuals and groups related to mental health and developmental concerns.
- Remain current with developments in counseling and mental health, which specifically relate to college students, neurodivergence, and college community life.
- Develop and maintain computer skills that effectively access the computer as a general office tool. Be able and willing to pivot to telehealth platforms as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned or directed.
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIRED SKILLS:
Master's degree in counseling, clinical or counseling psychology, or social work; experience providing individual, couples, and group psychotherapy; outreach; programming; mental health consultation; crisis intervention; and the ability to work effectively with diverse populations. Requires a minimum of 3 years post graduate experience and a professional license acquired by supervised counseling experience and the passing of a state/national level examination.
The candidate ideally will have some background related to education and or demonstrates some prior experience working with individuals who have diagnoses such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, and Dyslexia.
Excellent interpersonal, communication, documentation, and organizational skills. The ability to responsibly handle confidential/sensitive information. Technological competency for the use of electronic record keeping and documentation.
Demonstrated awareness and ability to provide culturally competent mental health services.
WORKNG CONDITIONS:
As a department within the Student Affairs division, our Counseling department is a creative, fun, and rewarding work environment. While the primary focus of our work is providing direct care to students, there is plenty of opportunity to engage with colleagues within the division and the broader campus community. Counseling also has a collaborative relationship with the department of Health Services on campus. Our strengths include a supportive collegial environment that helps team members identify and build on their specific clinical strengths.
Landmark College, located in beautiful southern Vermont, is a unique, accredited college for bright neurodivergent students with learning differences (LD; including dyslexia, ADHD, autism, and executive function challenges). Landmark provides an intentionally designed, resource-rich academic and student life model within a private liberal arts college environment. A position with Landmark College is more than just a job; it is an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of promising college students and to help us change how the public thinks about education. We champion a strength-based model and give students the skills and strategies they need to achieve their goals. A fully accredited, not-for-profit institution, Landmark College offers bachelor’s and associate degrees in liberal studies, studio arts, psychology, business, life science and computer science.
The Landmark College Office of Human Resources strives to ensure that we are an employer of choice, attracting and retaining uniquely talented individuals able to advance the College’s position as the college of choice for students who learn differently. We are committed to a philosophy that recognizes each person as an individual, worthy of respect, trust, dignity and fair treatment, and we apply these tenets to serve, support, and value all members of our community.
We recognize the importance of providing a work environment that is conducive to carrying out the College’s mission and contributes to the personal and professional growth of our faculty and staff. For Human Resources, this means the administration of employment policies, benefit plans, and compensation programs that are regularly evaluated and remain competitive and fair.
How to Apply
Interested individuals should provide a cover letter, resume or CV, and the names of three references. Electronic submissions are preferred. Please email your application to humanresources@landmark.edu. Applications may also be mailed to Director of Human Resources, Landmark College, 19 River Road South, Putney, Vermont 05346. No phone calls please.
Diversifying the student body, faculty, and administration is congruent with our mission. We value diverse populations and cultures including, but not limited to, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, national origin, neurodiversity, race, and religion. Landmark College is an EO/AA/Vet/Disability employer.
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