College Psychologist-Community Specialist - 140585

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

• Addressing the mental health needs of first generation, under-represented and undocumented college students to foster their retention, academic success, and wellbeing at UCSD.
• Performing psychological assessments towards diagnosis and the formulation of a treatment plan, the provision of focused psychotherapy and referral of students to appropriate level of care.
• Participating in after-hours, on-call, and urgent care coverage.
• Engaging in mental health promotion and education to a diverse college population through preventive outreach including psycho-educational programming, evaluation, and Psychological First Aid Postvention as needed.
• Providing consultation to faculty, staff and administration.
• Maintaining quality assurance and improvement in compliance standards.
• Supervising and training CAPS Post-doctoral Residents.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree from an accredited program in Clinical or Counseling psychology.
• Unrestricted California license to practice psychology.
• Bilingual fluency to provide therapy in English and Spanish strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• Thorough knowledge associated with providing evaluation, diagnosis and psychotherapy services.
• Thorough knowledge of diagnostic / psychological testing methodologies.
• Ability to conduct complex analysis and develop and present recommendations and course of treatment.
• Demonstrated knowledge, training, expertise, and sustained engagement in working with specialized programs for under-served, first generation, and undocumented students through culturally proficient individual, group and community interventions.
• Demonstrated experience working with under-served college students and young adults, including proven success addressing their social/ecological and psychological experiences and dynamics on campus to foster their matriculation and academic achievements.
• Demonstrated skill in effectively managing mental health emergencies.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct culturally proficient and focused individual and group counseling and psychotherapy.
• Proven ability to develop and implement effective culturally responsive outreach programs and provide consultation, mental health promotion, and preventative psycho-educational outreach services.
• Ability to assess outcomes and effectiveness of programs to adapt accordingly.
• Thorough skills associated with conducting complex diagnosis, problem-solving and critical-thinking.
• Knowledge of clinical supervision, organizational consulting techniques, systems and community psychology models and approaches with demonstrated skills in consultation work with professional and non-professional colleagues.
• Highly effective written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Thorough knowledge of applicable laws and standards of professional conduct.
• Knowledge of electronic / medical records systems. Must be computer literate.

Skills

• Ability to work in a highly collaborative manner with diverse client group, members of the medical staff and faculty.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion to foster the best possible working and learning environment.

Benefits

UCSD offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

Hiring Pay Scale: $130,520-$186,395 / Year

Schedule

Days, 8-Hour Shifts, Monday-Friday