Counseling Clinician

General Summary of Position:

University of Massachusetts Lowell has an exciting opening for a fulltime Counseling Clinician at Counseling Services (UMLCS) part of the UMass Lowell Wellness Center. We are seeking a dynamic licensed psychologist for this position to provide our predoctoral interns with quality clinical supervision as part of our thriving training program. Counseling Services strives to empower support and assist students in the pursuit of their academic professional and personal endeavors. Counseling Services clinicians work with undergraduate and graduate students to tackle challenges and remove barriers to growth change happiness peace or wellbeing.

The Counseling Clinician will provide culturally affirming clinical services including triage assessments intake evaluations diagnostic assessments treatment planning crisis intervention brief individual and couples counseling as well as group counseling. The clinician will assist students requiring longterm or specialized care in connecting with campus and offcampus resources as well as provide psychiatric referrals. The Counseling Clinician will design and lead advanced training seminars for staff and trainees. The Counseling Clinician will be a primary clinical supervisor for predoctoral psychology interns in the APA accredited predoctoral internship offered at UMLCS.

The ideal candidate for this position will be a superb and experienced clinician exceptionally warm engaging flexible collaborative positive and welcoming to a highly diverse student population.

The Counseling Clinician will join a strong hardworking creative spirited dedicated supportive team of multidisciplinary mental health care providers. We strive to create a healthy warm and caring workplace environment to allow staff to thrive and thereby best help our students. As a staff we value humor connection mutual respect and creating real meaningful relationships with our colleagues. We endeavor to work as a team not just a collection of colleagues. Staff meetings begin with personal checkins and staff debrief with each other spontaneously to discuss client sessions to gain support validation or constructive feedback. UMLCS offers professional development funds and staff miniretreats which in the past have involved trivia therapy dogs yoga games and much consumption of good food.

Selfcare is built into the practice model at UMLCS. There is a maximum of five scheduled clinical hours per day dedicated time for documentation reserved time for lunch a clear expectation that no one overworks and no oncall duties. Moreover we have regularly scheduled time as a staff solely focused on efforts to improve justice equity diversity and inclusion as colleagues supervisors clinicians and as part of the greater university system and world.

Counseling Services values the intersectional identities of each individual and recognizes the centrality of culture and relationships to human development and psychological wellbeing. We commit to support our students of all backgrounds and to work toward the eradication of discrimination and oppression in all a staff we are committed to social justice and antiracism personally and professionally. Staff are dedicated to creating an inclusive and affirming environment to support our student body and each other. For additional information about UMLCSs commitment to diversity and inclusion please see For information about UMass Lowells commitment see Lowell Merrimack Valley and the Boston region are home to diverse communities. The historic city of Lowell MA is a gateway city that is a majorityminority city 20.9 Asian American 17.9 Hispanic 8 Black/African American). UMass Lowell has robust partnerships with the City of Lowell Lowell Public Schools health organizations and many other local nonprofits and businesses. The Boston region is also home to a large number of potential research partners. The land we live work learn and commune on at UMass Lowell is the original homeland of the Pennacook communities with the Pawtucket Village and Wamesit Village.

About University of Massachusetts Lowell:

UMass Lowell is a national research university committed to preparing our students for work in the real worldsolving real problems and helping real peopleby providing an affordable highquality education. US News and World Report ranks UMass Lowell among the top 200 research universities in the country and our rankings have been consistently rising. The university offers an excellent salary (Grade P18: and benefits package Qualifications (Required):

• Masters degree in clinical social work mental health counseling clinical psychology or a closely related field and a minimum of 2 years of clinical experience providing psychotherapy if not supervising predoctoral psychology interns or
• Doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology with licensure as a psychologist required in order to supervise predoctoral psychology interns.
• Fully licensed candidates (e.g. psychologist LMHC LICSW) that have completed 5 years of clinical practice providing psychotherapy following a clinical graduate degree may be hired as a Senior Counseling Clinician (Grade P19
• Knowledge of best practices in crisis intervention clinical assessment risk assessment and suicide prevention.
• Commitment to and demonstrated ability to provide multiculturally competent clinical services to a diverse student population.
• Experience in working with developmental issues common to the 1825 year old college/university student population.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working or training in a college or university counseling center.
• Bilingual with experience providing mental health services in language(s) in addition to English

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Only Internal Professional (SEIU 888 Professional Union) Bargaining candidates will be considered during the first 10 business days of the posting. All other candidates will be considered after that period.

This is an SEIU 888 Professional Union position Grade P18. (Counseling Clinician P18 and if Senior Counseling Clinician P19.

Initial review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. However the position may close when an adequate number of qualified applications is received.

Pleaseinclude a CV Cover letter and a Statement 250500 words) that describes your commitment to equity inclusion and diversity in clinical and professional practice with your application. Names and contact information of three references who have supervised your clinical or professional work will be required during the application process.