General Summary of Position:
University of Massachusetts, Lowell has an exciting opening for a full-time 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 pre-doctoral 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 well-being.
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 long-term or specialized care in connecting with campus and off-campus 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 pre-doctoral psychology interns in the APA accredited pre-doctoral 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, hard-working, 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 check-ins 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 mini-retreats – which in the past have involved trivia, therapy dogs, yoga, games, and much consumption of good food.
Self-care 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 on-call 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 forms. As a staff, we are committed to social justice and anti-racism, 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 UMLCS’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, please see https://www.uml.edu/student-services/counseling/diversity.aspx. For information about UMass Lowell’s commitment see https://www.uml.edu/diversity/.
Greater 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 majority-minority 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 world--solving real problems and helping real people--by providing an affordable high-quality 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: https://www.uml.edu/docs/Ranges%20for%20Professional%20Positions_07.01.2022R_tcm18-358674.pdf) and benefits package (https://www.uml.edu/hr/employee-benefits/benefited-employees/).
Minimum Qualifications (Required):
- Master’s 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 pre-doctoral psychology interns or
- Doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology with licensure as a psychologist required in order to supervise pre-doctoral 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 18-25 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.
Please include a CV, Cover letter and a Statement (250-500 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.
