College Therapist-Graduate Student Specialist - 140111

About the role

The UC San Diego SHW cluster seeks a skilled mental health professional to provide counseling and clinical services for a diverse student population, with a focus on Graduate and Professional School students.

Responsibilities

• Perform psychological assessments towards diagnosis and the formulation of a treatment plan.
• Provide focused psychotherapy and referral of students to appropriate level of care.
• Participate in after-hours, on-call, and urgent care coverage.
• Engage 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.
• Provide supervision and training of CAPS Post-doctoral Residents.
• Maintain quality assurance and improvement in compliance standards.

Requirements

• Doctorate degree from an accredited program in Clinical or Counseling psychology.
• Unrestricted California license to practice psychology. Out of state licensed within 180 days.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification by the start date.
• 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 experience and expertise addressing the mental health needs and unique challenges faced by Graduate and Professional School students.
• Demonstrated experience working with under-served college students and young adults.
• Thorough skills associated with conducting complex diagnosis, problem-solving and critical-thinking.
• Demonstrated skills to perform psychological and interest, vocational and aptitudes testing to plan and implement a variety of case dispositions.
• Demonstrated skill in effectively managing mental health emergencies.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct culturally proficient and focused individual and group counseling and psychotherapy.
• Ability to relate warmly, humanely, sensitively and empathetically to others.
• 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.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative manner with diverse client group, members of the medical staff and faculty.
• 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.
• At all times, demonstrate the characteristics of professionalism in attire, attitude, conversation, behavior and attentiveness to others.
• Ability to adhere to and practice the mandatory University Core Values & Safety Standards of performance.
• Ability to at all times adhere to UCSD Health Medical Center (C.A.R.I.N.G.) Standards of Performance as applicable to position.
• Must complete all required training assigned by UCOP, UCSD and SHW/CAPS on a timely basis.
• Ability to use discretion and maintain confidentiality of client, students, faculty, and staff disclosures, and comply with all requirements in use of computer systems and access to any and all patient, student, employee and University data, in electronic and hard copy formats, in compliance with University, state and federal guidelines, including, but not limited to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act(FERPA).

Qualifications

• Doctorate degree from an accredited program in Clinical or Counseling psychology.
• Unrestricted California license to practice psychology. Out of state licensed within 180 days.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification by the start date.
• 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 experience and expertise addressing the mental health needs and unique challenges faced by Graduate and Professional School students.
• Demonstrated experience working with under-served college students and young adults.
• Thorough skills associated with conducting complex diagnosis, problem-solving and critical-thinking.
• Demonstrated skills to perform psychological and interest, vocational and aptitudes testing to plan and implement a variety of case dispositions.
• Demonstrated skill in effectively managing mental health emergencies.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct culturally proficient and focused individual and group counseling and psychotherapy.
• Ability to relate warmly, humanely, sensitively and empathetically to others.
• 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.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative manner with diverse client group, members of the medical staff and faculty.
• 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.
• At all times, demonstrate the characteristics of professionalism in attire, attitude, conversation, behavior and attentiveness to others.
• Ability to adhere to and practice the mandatory University Core Values & Safety Standards of performance.
• Ability to at all times adhere to UCSD Health Medical Center (C.A.R.I.N.G.) Standards of Performance as applicable to position.
• Must complete all required training assigned by UCOP, UCSD and SHW/CAPS on a timely basis.
• Ability to use discretion and maintain confidentiality of client, students, faculty, and staff disclosures, and comply with all requirements in use of computer systems and access to any and all patient, student, employee and University data, in electronic and hard copy formats, in compliance with University, state and federal guidelines, including, but not limited to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act(FERPA).

Skills

• 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 experience and expertise addressing the mental health needs and unique challenges faced by Graduate and Professional School students.
• Demonstrated experience working with under-served college students and young adults.
• Thorough skills associated with conducting complex diagnosis, problem-solving and critical-thinking.
• Demonstrated skills to perform psychological and interest, vocational and aptitudes testing to plan and implement a variety of case dispositions.
• Demonstrated skill in effectively managing mental health emergencies.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct culturally proficient and focused individual and group counseling and psychotherapy.
• Ability to relate warmly, humanely, sensitively and empathetically to others.
• 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.
• Ability to work in a highly collaborative manner with diverse client group, members of the medical staff and faculty.
• 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.
• At all times, demonstrate the characteristics of professionalism in attire, attitude, conversation, behavior and attentiveness to others.
• Ability to adhere to and practice the mandatory University Core Values & Safety Standards of performance.
• Ability to at all times adhere to UCSD Health Medical Center (C.A.R.I.N.G.) Standards of Performance as applicable to position.
• Must complete all required training assigned by UCOP, UCSD and SHW/CAPS on a timely basis.
• Ability to use discretion and maintain confidentiality of client, students, faculty, and staff disclosures, and comply with all requirements in use of computer systems and access to any and all patient, student, employee and University data, in electronic and hard copy formats, in compliance with University, state and federal guidelines, including, but not limited to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act(FERPA).

Benefits

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

Pay

Annual Full Pay Range: $101,954 - $177,522 (will be prorated if the appointment percentage is less than 100%).

Schedule

Various work locations, if needed and deemed necessary by the department.