Counseling Services Counselor

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Job Description

Essential Functions

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Provides comprehensive assessment, interventions, individual therapy, group therapy and other psychosocial treatment modalities.
• Provides effective treatment planning and assists clients in successfully achieving goals.
• Participates in outreach, wellness, and psychoeducational programming to the campus community.
• Provides urgent trauma therapy and de-escalation to the campus community.

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required):

• Maintains a high standard of professionalism and confidentiality within the Department.
• Maintains working knowledge of best practices in the field of college mental health
• Works collaboratively with counseling center staff and campus partners, documents accurately within the medical record of clients, as well as, other forms to meet city, state and federal regulatory requirements
• Attends assigned meetings at all levels of the organization.
• Supports the University by providing consultative services to the faculty, staff, students, clients and their family members as needed.
• Facilitates outreach events as needed.
• Other duties at assigned.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Education:

• Masters Degree in Social Services related field required.

AND

Experience:

• Prior clinical experience in outpatient clinical behavioral health or college counseling preferred.

Minimum Certifications, Registration or License Requirements:

• Must be a licensed clinician in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Additional Information

• Microsoft office knowledge.
• Previous experience working with college athletes preferred.

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Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.