TRAINING ASSOCIATE, Sargent College, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
TRAINING ASSOCIATE, Sargent College, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
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Boston Universitys Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is one of the countrys leading schools of health and rehabilitation sciences. Home to more than 1300 undergraduate and450 graduate students Sargent College combines outstanding faculty and cutting-edge research to provide superb education and clinical experiences. The college has more than 25 on-campus research facilities clinical centers and labs. It offers top-ranked degree programs in occupational therapy physical therapy speech language and hearing sciences health science athletic training human physiology behavior and health and nutrition.
The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation situated within Sargent College has been devoted to improving the lives of individuals with psychiatric conditions for over 45 years. Our Research Training and Services divisions work to achieve this goal by researching and developing new interventions by disseminating new advancements and programs to the field and by providing programming that teaches critical skills to promote success in whatever goals our participants may have as students workers and citizens.
The Centers College Mental Health Education Program (CMHEP) ( is currently inviting applications for a full-time Training Associate position. CMHEP provides educational programming for individuals and their families who live with mental health conditions. Our Training Associates (TAs) engage students and their families affirmatively and skillfully as people first with inherent strengths through teaching coaching advising and advocating. TAs coordinate and develop relationships with other academic health and community resources to assist the student and their families to thrive while living with a mental health condition as students workers and family members. TAs are expected to participate in other related training and research events within the Center at the University and in other educational and health environments as well as assist in the development and implementation of innovative curriculum and programming.
We seek candidates with diversity of experience and perspective who have broad knowledge within the field of counseling education psychology social work and/or rehabilitation and whose teaching pedagogies encourage full participation. Exceptional interpersonal skills flexibility adaptability and multi-tasking are all essential skills for this position.
Essential Functions:
- Teach in a classroom setting both using established curriculums and supporting development of new class curriculums and seminars that build knowledge skills and strategies that support students to thrive with an interest in planning writing implementing modifying and delivering curriculum through universal design learning principles.
- Coach advise advocate and mentor students in a one-on-one setting using active listening empathy motivational interviewing and cognitive-behavioral strategies and techniques. Respond in the moment to meet student needs; some availability outside of standard work hours is expected.
- Provide training and support to other educational and mental health professionals to support students with behavioral health conditions through outreach to other professional and programs strong collaboration and initiative-taking. Occasional presentations at conferences both nationally and globally.
The TA will sustain and support a culture that celebrates the diversity of individuals and ideas and which values accountability collaboration and innovation. The Center believes that the cultural and social diversity of our faculty and staff is vitally important to the distinction and excellence of all our work. To that we are especially eager to add to our team a colleague who supports our commitment to ensuring the Center is inclusive equitable diverse and a place where all constituents can thrive. The Center seeks to continue diversifying our staff recognizing that diversity of experience and thought strengthens the work that we do and the value we bring to every community we serve.
Required Skills
Basic Qualifications:
- Degree: Masters degree
- Minimum 1 year of relevant experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience and expertise in mental illnesses in young adults social work special education adult education and/or higher education is preferred
- Clinical licensure (e.g. LICSW LMHC)
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color natural or protective hairstyle religion sex age national origin physical or mental disability sexual orientation gender identity genetic information military service pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition or because of marital parental or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.
Required Experience:
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Employment Type
Full-Time
