Clinical Case ManagerStaff Therapist

Title: Clinical Case Manager/Staff Therapist

Position Purpose:

The Clinical Case Manager/Staff Therapist is responsible for working with multiple Bates College departments and community agencies to coordinate services for student care. In addition they will provide individual and group counseling and psychotherapy alongside the Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) Clinical Team and under the leadership of its Director.

Job Duties:

Case Management:

• Supports internal referrals for CAPS clients needing specialized or higher levels of care.
• Assists in the coordination of services for students with highrisk behaviors.
• Facilitates referrals for continuity of care for students recently hospitalized.
• Follows up and tracks referrals for students with identified high risk needs.
• Maintains full and accurate case notes for clients within CAPS EMR (Titanium).
• Serves as a liaison between community mental health providers and CAPS.
• Collaborates with the Student Support team on care plans with student consent and compliance.
• Works with students referred to CAPS by the Dean of Students Student Conduct and members of the Bates Intervention Team conveying information when appropriate releases of information are in place.

Clinical Work:

• Maintains an active clinical caseload providing confidential individual and group counseling and psychotherapy to students.
• Provides crisis and ongoing counseling services for students with acute psychological concerns.
• Provides consultation training and outreach to students faculty staff and parents.
• Completes clinical documentation in accordance with professional and licensure standards.
• Conducts mental health evaluations diagnoses and refers patients to appropriate levels of care.
• Participates on the CAPS On Call rotation to ProtoCall responding to questions or concerns about students in crisis.
• Accesses and conveys relevant clinical information from Titanium and ProtoCall for hospital intake when appropriate and indicated.

Campus Partnership/Education and Outreach:

• In collaboration with the Director of CAPS and campus partners provide occasional educational and psychoeducational programming to students.
• In collaboration with the Director of CAPS supports and collaborates with student clubs and organizations on campus regarding programming efforts in their particular areas of interest.
• Participate on the Integrative Wellbeing Team to provide holistic wellbeing support to students grounded in evidencebased practices and relevant theoretical models.
• Develop and implement training modules for professional staff in residence life to facilitate ongoing learning about wellness support.
• Serves as oncall staff for emergent situations in which the CAPS oncall system (ProtoCall) requires professional consultation.

Other:

• Completes other duties as may be assigned by the immediate supervisor or designee that are consistent with the responsibilities of the position.
• Attends training and professional development opportunities for continuing education credits (CEU) to maintain Maine licensure in good standing.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education

• Advanced degree in Social Work Clinical or Counseling Psychology required by anticipated start date.
• Must possess valid mental health licensure or have the ability to obtain mental health licensure in Maine within 90 days of anticipated start date.
• Continued employment is contingent upon obtaining mental health licensure.

Experience

• Clinical experience in college mental health or related area treating late adolescents and emerging adults.
• Strong clinical diagnostic interpersonal and collaborative skills.
• Experience working with common presenting concerns of college student such as anxiety depression substance abuse eating disorders etc.
• Experience working as part of a health care team inclusive of families and College staff.
• Experience in current college mental health issues including familiarity with diversity of treatment modalities commonly used with this population.
• Experience developing and leading educational and psychoeducational programs and community outreach efforts.
• Demonstrated success in supporting students from underrepresented groups including students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups firstgenerationto college students and lowincome students.
• Demonstrated proficiency with crisis assessment management support and intervention within a multidisciplinary model for student wellness.

Skills and Knowledge

• Commitment to equity and inclusion and serving the needs of a culturally and educationally diverse community.
• Possesses the highest integrity providing clinical care in a college mental health setting including documentation in student charts (in EMR) in accordance with the centers policies and the broad ethical guidelines of mental health practice HIPAA and medical care.
• Ability to maintain strict confidentiality and be in compliance with HIPAA FERPA and the ethical and legal guidelines associated with ones nursing and mental health professional associations.
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to develop and maintain collegial relationships.
• Must be flexible collaborative and have a positive attitude.
• Ability to establish rapport quickly with student clients and their families while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
• Ability to remain composed and friendly with distressed students and others; maintains neutrality and works well under stress.
• Excellent communication (written verbal and presentation) skills. Ability to write concise logical analytical reports to convey complex issues. Lead group discussions.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills; ability to synthesize complex or diverse information.
• Ability to work independently and handle multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
• Keen attention to detail necessary for successful documentation planning and .
• Proficiency in basic data management systems and basic computer applications (e.g. Word Excel PowerPoint).
• Willingness and ability to learn additional applications as needed.
• Ability and willingness to travel (by car air train or bus) domestically and internationally as needed.
• Ability and willingness to work weekends evenings oncall and other nontraditional schedules.

Benefits:

Bates College offers competitive salaries excellent benefits (health dental sick leave 20 days of vacation 2 personal days 13 paid holidays dependent care subsidy free parking access to library and athletic facilities & more) and a supportive collegial environment in a drug and smokefree workplace.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

Bates College is committed to the principle of equal opportunity and providing an educational and work environment free from discrimination. The college prohibits discrimination on the basis of race color national or ethnic origin religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or gender expression age disability genetic information or veteran status and other legally protected statuses in the recruitment and admission of its students in the administration of its education policies and programs or in the recruitment of its faculty and staff. Bates College adheres to all applicable state and federal equal opportunity laws and regulations. All college faculty staff students contractors visitors and volunteers are responsible for understanding and complying with the NonDiscrimination Policy.

Inquiries concerning the colleges policies compliance with applicable laws statutes and regulations (such as Title VII Title IX and ADA/Section 504 and complaints may be directed to Gwen Lexow Title IX Officeror via email at .

About Bates:

Bates is internationally recognized as a leading liberal arts college attracting 2000 students from across the U.S. and around the world.

Since 1855 Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. Committed to opportunity and excellence Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender race religion or national origin.

Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world. Bates engages the forces intellectual trends demographic changes and technology that are transforming higher education and the world into which our students graduate.

Bates has highly competitive admissions graduates over 90 percent of its entering students and more than half of its alumni earn graduate degrees. Bates employs 200 faculty members and 550 staff.

The college is proud of deep roots in the Lewiston/Auburn community Maines secondlargest urban area with a population of approximately 65000. Bates is located on a beautiful 133acre traditional New England campus in Lewiston an emerging city with an entrepreneurial climate a lively arts scene and a dynamic business community. Bates is 35 miles north of Portland 140 miles north of Boston and 350 miles north of New York City.