Staff Therapist (LGBTQ+ Focus)
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Counseling and Psychological Services (CaPS) is seeking to fill an opening for a Staff Therapist. This position will see clients in the main CaPS office and also be embedded part-time in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Resource Center. This is a full-time, on-campus position.
The Staff Therapist delivers goal-directed therapy services to RIT students, offers consultation with families and RIT community members, provides educational and outreach programming, and supports the training of graduate trainees in mental health fields. The successful Staff Therapist values a multifaceted approach to supporting student well-being involving strongly linked clinical and training efforts; collaboration with the campus community; mental health prevention/early intervention; and commitment to accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion. They will have specialized interest and experience working with clients of diverse gender and sexual identities.
Job Responsibilities
Direct Service:
- Provide individual and group therapy services to culturally diverse undergraduate and graduate student population. Conduct needs assessments, intake evaluations, treatment follow-up, and appropriate referrals. Provide urgent care and crisis intervention. Direct clinical service may occur in the CaPS main office and in embedded locations on campus.
- Develop and deliver mental health outreach and educational programming to campus partners. Occasional programming and special event needs will be delivered in the evenings and on weekends. Certain recurring university events, such as Student Orientation, require full staff participation.
- Actively support the graduate training program through design and delivery of didactic training seminars, supervision, and/or assistance with the design and implementation of other related training activities.
Administrative:
- Maintain clinical documentation in a thorough and timely manner
- Review trainee session recordings and documentation.
- Track and report on outreach activities.
Teamwork and Professional Development
- Participate in CaPS staff meetings, peer consultation group, IHS Case Collaboration. Attend CaPS supervisory meetings.
- In collaboration with supervisor, participate in campus committees, programs, professional development opportunities, and working groups.
Required Qualifications
Education:
- Master’s degree in a mental health discipline (i.e. psychology, counseling, social work)
- Must be licensed or license-eligible in New York State as a Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) or Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT). License and diagnostic privilege must be obtained within one year of hire date.
- A minimum of three years of clinical experience with young adults or adults in a dynamic mental health setting with demonstrated ability to work both independently and within a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience providing evidence-based short-term individual therapy, group therapy, consultation, crisis intervention, and case management with a range of clinical issues.
- Ability to conduct thorough risk assessments in the clinical context.
- Experience working effectively with historically marginalized populations.
- Ability to develop and provide relevant consultation and educational outreach services in a higher education learning community.
- Ability to work independently within a dynamic clinical and learning environment.
- Understanding of, and compliance with, the ethical and legal issues involved in the provision of clinical services.
- Ability to manage and maintain confidential and private information; uses confidential, sensitive and/or private records and information, protects information appropriately.
- Ability to establish, build and maintain effective working relationships based on respect, empathy and honesty with diverse groups and individuals.
- Effective interpersonal, written, and electronic communications skills, including the ability to convey complex information in accessible terms to diverse or multicultural audiences.
- Experience using information technology and computerized databases, including electronic health records.
- Knowledge of Deaf culture, American Sign Language (ASL), or willingness to learn.
- Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience providing clinical supervision.
- Demonstrated experience in providing culturally competent services to a diverse client population, with an emphasis on serving transgender students and students on the autism spectrum.
- Ability to provide therapy in ASL, Mandarin, Hindi, Farsi, Bengali, or Nepali.
For priority consideration, please apply by October 14. Start date is negotiable with preference for a start by January 6. Applicants should submit a CV and a cover letter that clearly states their interest in the position, including interest and experience working with LGBTQ+ clients. Applicants with missing materials will not be considered.
