The Counselor position in the Student Counseling Center is responsible for providing mental health counseling, crisis management, consultation, and outreach services to the Jacksonville University community.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Provide supervision and training to graduate students with regard to professional development activities.
• Provide clinical supervision to Clinical Mental Health Counseling graduate students on internship at the Student Counseling Center as needed.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Provide mental health counseling and psychotherapy services to students.
• Provide crisis management and consultation services to the entire campus community;
• Provide psycho-educational in-person as well as web-based and/or social media outreach programming to the campus community;
• Consult and collaborate with Sports Medicine and Student Health Center staff to ensure holistic student care;
• Collaborate campus partners to provide needed mental-health related programming and trainings;

Required Skills/Abilities

• Extensive knowledge and good judgment in the application of complex principles of human behavior and student development theories;
• Ability to develop and maintain a strong therapeutic alliance with clients;
• Ability to provide clinical assessments of danger to self and others and make treatment
• decisions on the basis of such assessments;
• Ability to provide appropriate clinical supervision and consultation;
• Good oral, nonverbal, written, and listening communication skills;
• Ability to understand and apply ethical and legal considerations relevant to mental health work;
• An understanding of the use of technology to enhance community engagement within the mental health fields ethical guidelines.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills ;
• Ability to work in a multi-faceted environment with crisis situations and with people with emotional problems;
• Ability to work within integrative care teams.

Education and Experience