Supervising Clinician: Outreach (71101)

Position Summary

The Supervising Clinician: Outreach provides essential leadership, clinical services, and educational programming related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and abuse and the impact on a student's well-being within Pratt Institute's Integrated Health and Wellbeing Center. This position focuses on implementing best practices in substance use prevention and harm reduction while providing direct clinical care, including assessment, short-term individual counseling, community-based referrals, and group facilitation for students. The Supervising Clinician: Outreach plays a critical role in fostering a campus culture of health, safety, and informed decision-making.

Responsibilities

Clinical Services and Case Management (30%)

• Provide direct, short-term individual counseling, crisis intervention, and follow-up specifically focused on substance use, addiction, and co-occurring mental health concerns and available to provide support for students dealing with mental health and dual diagnosis-related issues.
• Conduct substance use assessments, including the utilization of evidence-based models such as BASICS (Brief Alcohol Screening & Intervention for College Students) or TAPS for students seeking services or those referred through the student conduct process.
• Facilitate targeted support and therapy groups related to ATOD issues (e.g., harm reduction, recovery support, and groups for family members/partners of those with substance use issues).
• Collaborate with RWW to help support peer-led support groups focused on harm reduction or sobriety.
• Collaborate with Counseling Services clinicians and refer students to appropriate off-campus resources when specialized or long-term care is required.

Prevention, Education, and Outreach (55%)

• Serve as the institutional expert and leader on ATOD issues, ensuring programs and services align with current public health and higher education best practices (e.g., Harm Reduction principles).
• Design, implement, and evaluate high-impact educational and prevention programming to reduce the negative consequences of substance use, impacting the entire student body and relevant campus stakeholders.
• Provide professional consultation and outreach to faculty, staff, parents, and student leaders on ATOD issues, dual diagnosis, signs of concern, and appropriate response protocols.
• Actively participate in campus-wide initiatives, including new student orientation and training for Residential Life and student affairs staff.
• Create programming in collaboration with campus partners focused on dual diagnosis, mental health, and intersectionality.

Supervision and Inter-Departmental Leadership (15%)

• Provide direct clinical and administrative supervision for assigned staff (e.g., Health Promotion Specialists, Outreach Liaisons) and clinical interns, specifically in areas related to substance use disorder treatment and prevention and overall mental health outreach initiatives.
• Coordinate with key departments (e.g., Residential Life & Housing, Student Conduct, Student Health) to streamline referral processes and ensure consistent application of substance use policies, and to help campus partners distinguish between substance abuse vs underlying mental health diagnosis and ensure appropriate resources are provided to the student.
• Actively participate in departmental and Divisional strategic planning and quality improvement initiatives.

Administrative and Resource Management (10%)

• Maintain timely, accurate, and confidential clinical documentation in compliance with all legal and ethical standards (e.g., HIPAA, FERPA).
• Assess and manage external community resources to maintain a current and relevant referral network.

Qualifications

Education

• Master's Degree in Social Work (MSW), Clinical Psychology, Counseling Psychology, or a related mental health field.
• Doctor of Social Work or Psychology a bonus.

Licensure

• Current, independent, and unrestricted license to practice in New York State (e.g., LCSW, LMHC, LCP) or as a psychologist.

Experience

• Minimum of five (5) years of post-master's clinical experience, with at least two (2) years of demonstrated experience in program development, outreach, and prevention in a college or university setting.

Skills/Knowledge

• Proven expertise in delivering substance abuse treatment utilizing the Harm Reduction Model or other AOD based treatment modalities.
• Demonstrated experience in providing mental health outreach and data collection from the outreaches.
• Demonstrated competence in crisis intervention, multicultural competence, and group facilitation.