Clinical Director, CAPS - 140421

About the role

The mission of the Student Health & Well-Being (SHW) cluster is to promote a culture of health and well-being for the student community, deliver equitable high quality innovative services, incorporate inclusive approaches, and celebrate diversity, with the goal of adoption and maintenance of healthy behaviors contributing to the academic success and personal development of all students.

Responsibilities

• Provides vision, leadership, and coordination for departmental and campus wide clinical services and consultations related to mental health and psychological wellness in a large scale operation of 60+ clinicians supporting over 45,000 UC San Diego students.
• Establishes clinical objectives and effective methods of service delivery, ensuring that practices promote healthcare equity and inclusive excellence across the full continuum of routine and urgent mental health needs, in accordance with legal and ethical best practices.
• Maintains a robust, continuous Quality Improvement Program that meets federal, state, UC San Diego Health, and UCOP system wide standards in collaboration with the CAPS Director of Quality and Patient Safety and uses data to inform clinical operations and facilitate timely access to services, in coordination with the SHW Director of Student Health Analytics and Assessment.
• Assumes the responsibilities of the Director in their absence or when designated to do so.
• Provides direct counseling, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of student clients.

Requirements

• Ph.D. or Psy.D. from an accredited program in Clinical or Counseling psychology.
• Unrestricted California license to practice psychology.
• Minimum of seven years licensed clinical experience, including five or more years of experience in a University Counseling Center.
• Five or more years of clinical leadership experience, successfully supervising and mentoring a large and diverse staff of mental health professionals in a comprehensive college counseling center.

Qualifications

• Skills associated with program management and evaluation, including five or more years of progressively responsible administrative leadership in a high-volume comprehensive counseling center comprised of clinical services, training, supervision, outreach and postvention.
• Advanced knowledge and applied background in behavioral health counseling methods and techniques, crisis intervention, treatment planning and case management.
• Advanced academic and experiential knowledge of psychotherapeutic process and procedures.
• Demonstrated experience managing complicated crisis situations, including suicidality and hospitalization.
• Advanced knowledge and expertise with mental health issues in higher education, including the mental health needs of historically marginalized students, and a demonstrated commitment to supporting those needs.
• Knowledge of scientific inquiry and methods.

Skills

• Advanced knowledge and expertise with mental health issues in higher education, including the mental health needs of historically marginalized students, and a demonstrated commitment to supporting those needs.
• Skilled judgment in using access to sensitive and/or not yet public university related information only in the performance of the responsibilities of position and exercising care to prevent unnecessary disclosure to others.
• Proven ability to effectively manage, lead and motivate employees.
• Strong conflict resolution skills.
• Advanced abilities to create a positive and respectful workplace and demonstrated commitment to departmental and institutional goals for achieving non-discrimination and creating respectful, inclusive, equitable and fair environment.
• Demonstrated ability to engage in data analysis and data-informed decision making to develop the clinical goals and effective methods of counseling service delivery that emphasizes brief treatment in a collaborative environment with an interdisciplinary team.
• Strong decision-making and organizational leadership skills.
• Knowledge of national benchmarks, current trends, and approaches in collegiate mental health services.
• Ability to apply an equity and accessibility centered lens to policies and organizational workflows to reduce systemic disparities and support equitable and inclusive clinical service delivery and staff expectations.
• Proven ability to develop, implement, and evaluate models of client services.
• Knowledge of fiscal/budget processes.
• Ability to manage HR and fiscal resources effectively.
• Proven innovative, creative, and empowering mindset to re-imagine services and stay relevant and student-centric.
• Expertise with management of electronic health records, with the willingness and ability to update and increase skills as needed to meet the goals of the unit, the department and SHW.

Benefits

UC San Diego offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement plans, paid time off, and more.

Pay

Budgeted salary or hourly range: $119,400 - $230,800 (will be prorated if the appointment percentage is less than 100%).

Schedule

8 hrs/day, Monday-Friday