Assistant Professor, Graduate Counseling Programs Clinical Placement Coordinator

Description

Summary

Regis College is actively seeking a Clinical Placement Coordinator for Graduate Counseling Programs. The Master of Arts in Counseling is a strong and growing program offered in the School of Health Sciences on the Weston, MA campus. A full-time position: qualified applicants will have an earned doctorate in Counseling, Counseling Psychology, Counselor Education, or Clinical Psychology from a regionally-accredited program and three years of college or university experience teaching.

Successful candidates will share a commitment and passion for working with diverse and marginalized populations. As a generalist program, areas of specialty remain open, but candidates with experience in antiracism, intersectional feminism, assessment, and therapeutic considerations, as well as community mental health care are encouraged to apply. A passion for excellence with gentleness, a commitment to diversity, collaboration and innovation, and positive energy are fundamental to this position. The Clinical Placement Coordinator is a faculty position that also provides leadership and oversight for the placement and support of Graduate Counseling Programs students. Rank commensurate with previous teaching experience, past scholarly achievement, and service.

Essential Functions:

• Teach graduate level courses in the area of counseling.
• Provide oversight and leadership of the clinical placement component of the Graduate Counseling Programs.
• Collaborate with Graduate Counseling Programs Director.
• Oversee the implementation of a student assessment plan to ensure continuous quality improvement.
• Serve as clinical placement liaison and mentor to students.
• Ensure sufficient number of placement sites and develop clinical placement site partnerships.
• Engage in scholarly activity appropriate to the discipline such as publishing, presenting at national, regional, and local conferences, conducting research and/or grant writing and related activities. 
• Represent program in partnership meetings with referring institutions and agency sites. 
• All roles and responsibilities associated with a full-time faculty appointment, including teaching, scholarship and service to the program, department, school, and institution. 
• Demonstrated evidence of the use of instructional technology.

Other Responsibilities:

• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibility:

• Student advising as assigned.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• PhD or PsyD in Counseling, Counseling Psychology, Counselor Education, or Clinical Psychology.
• Current professional license to independently practice in the State of Massachusetts as a licensed mental health counselor.
• Minimum three years of full-time or the equivalent part-time post-licensure clinical mental health experience as a licensed mental health counselor. Experience teaching at the graduate level.
• Experience in program design, accreditation, assessment of academic programs, and hiring and management of faculty preferred.
• Ability to uphold the university’s commitment to inclusive excellence in a diverse educational community.
• Ability to uphold the mission of Graduate Counseling Programs.

Working Conditions/Physical Demands:

• Normal office environment, not subject to extremes in noise, odors, etc.
• May spend extended periods at terminal, on telephone, or operating other office machines requiring eye-hand coordination and finger dexterity.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to do this job. The above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required.

Protecting the Regis Community

All faculty, staff, and students who live, learn, and work on Regis College’s Weston MA campus are strongly encouraged to be vaccinated for COVID-19. COVID-19 immunization is required for faculty, staff, and students who learn and work in the Regis College Dental Center and Autism Center, consistent with federal mandates. For further information, please review Regis College’s health and safety protocols.

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled as defined under the Americans With Disabilities Act, must be able to perform the essential job functions (as listed) either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined by management on a case-by-case basis.

In employment, as in education, Regis College is committed to equal opportunity and affirmative action. Regis does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, religion, creed, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnic or national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital or parental status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran’s status, membership in uniformed services or any other protected status.