Counselor, Clinical Mental Health

Duke University:

Duke University was created in 1924 through an indenture of trust by James Buchanan Duke. Today, Duke is regarded as one of America’s leading research universities. Located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke is positioned in the heart of the Research Triangle, which is ranked annually as one of the best places in the country to work and live. Duke has more than 15,000 students who study and conduct research in its 10 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. With about 40,000 employees, Duke is the third largest private employer in North Carolina, and it now has international programs in more than 150 countries.

Positional Summary

CAPS provides excellent quality of care to undergraduate and graduate students. We are committed to demonstrating empathy and trust with students, one another, campus/community partners, and other stakeholders. As social justice motivates our work, all students will experience acceptance and compassion, and affirmation for their lived identities and life experiences.

Under the direction of the Director of Clinical Services, the Counselor, Clinical Mental Health will provide assessment, brief counseling, and crisis intervention in an individual and/or group setting. This individual will participate in CAPS outreach and community engagement activities for Duke students. The individual must be a strong generalist who provides services through a social justice framework and can provide multimodal interventions and clinical services to emerging adults in the college setting.  The clinician should be culturally competent and have demonstrated experience working with diverse student populations. The clinician may support training and education which may include providing culturally-responsive supervision and seminars to licensed professional counseling interns. 

Key Position Duties

Clinical Student Services (60%)

• Provides assessment/brief counseling/crisis intervention in individual and group settings to college students. Provide clinical services using appropriate theoretical approaches

• Provides interpersonal process and skills-based, and other group services and workshops as needed within CAPS and across the campus community.
• Assist students in developing coping skills and tools that will allow them to maintain emotional, physical, social, and environmental, relational wellness.
• Provides crisis case management services to students and responds to clinical and campus crises as a support to the TRAC to as needed.
• Demonstrate knowledge about Solution Focused Brief Therapy, and ways to integrate this modality in a university counseling center.  Also demonstrated knowledge and ability to integrate other theoretical approaches within the clinical counseling process.
• Administers and interprets limited assessment measures;
• Participate in community engagement services through liaison relationships with faculty, staff and students;
• Delivers campus and community level interventions that address cultural climate issues for oppressed and marginalized groups.
• Follows agency policies and procedures consistent with state mental health statutes, ethical guidelines, best practices, and HIPAA;

Administrative (35%)

• Completes clinical documentation according to policies and procedures

• Coordinates referrals for students, with TRAC, for students who may exhibit chronic mental health conditions that are not treatable in a university counseling setting
• Provides professional development and orientation support to trainees and/or new employees
• Attends staff, clinical team, and committee meetings; participates in ongoing staff conversations about the ways marginalization, discrimination, and oppression impact individuals and systems; participates on committees as requested
• Attends department sponsored professional development activities.

Strongly Preferred Experiences and Qualifications

• Experience in student mental health and emerging adult populations or relevant healthcare or social service setting

• Experience providing services with emerging adults and culturally responsive interventions across a range of diverse populations

• Experience in Crisis Intervention and Management; and
• Especially those from Asian, South Asian, and Middle Eastern/North African countries; Latinx populations; and transgender communities is desired, as well as those who have demonstrated experience and skills working with Jewish or Muslim students. Bi-lingual language skills are strongly preferred. 

Preferred Skills and Competencies:

• Demonstrates experience and capability to work as part of a cohesive, interdisciplinary team in a university counseling center and with professionals in other campus units
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills that facilitate organizational health
• Demonstrates commitment to self-awareness and desire for growth related to intersectionality and the ways marginalization, discrimination, and oppression impact individuals and systems; and
• Experience in the provision of crisis intervention and consultation is essential.

Physical Demands:

• Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

• The primary nature of this position is that of usual office-type working conditions, with occasional work taking place outdoors. Physical skills that may be required to perform job responsibilities include, but are not limited to, movement throughout an office environment/building, carrying or lifting items (up to and including 50lbs), and sitting/standing for extended periods of time.
  
  Incumbent must be able to complete all positional requirements outlined above with or without reasonable accommodations. For more information, please visit https://hr.duke.edu/policies/ada/

Minimum Qualifications

Education

Master's degree in counseling or related field from an institution of higher education; Licensed as a Clinical Mental Health Counselor or Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of North Carolina; and experience in a student mental health agency or relevant healthcare or social service setting.

Experience

None required beyond education/training requirement OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.