Middlebury College

Senior Counselor

Middlebury College$77K — $89K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Clinical experience in assessment, treatment planning, and crisis response
  • Demonstrated success in outreach and group programs
  • Proven use of multicultural approaches in clinical care
  • Commitment to addressing multiple identity intersections
  • Collaboration experience with clinical and administrative staff
  • Strong understanding of student developmental stages
  • 5 years of relevant experience
  • Master's degree in counseling, psychology, social work, or a related field with Vermont licensure eligibility.

Responsibilities

  • Provide psychological counseling and crisis intervention for students
  • Organize and implement outreach activities including workshops and trainings
  • Build and maintain relationships with campus partners for collaboration
  • Facilitate skills and process trainings across disciplines
  • Complete timely documentation in the EHR system
  • Support leadership in risk management and crisis issues
  • Participate in Counselor on-call rotation
  • Supervise pre-licensure interns or student workers as assigned.

Benefits

  • Extensive health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Generous retirement matching programs
  • Up to 34 days of paid time off, increasing with service
  • Educational assistance programs for professional development
  • MiddCard privileges for athletic and cultural access for employees and partners
  • Discounts on recreational activities like skiing and golfing
  • Access to the Partner Inclusion Program for employee spouses and partners.
Full Job Description
In addition to short-term counseling, crisis intervention, and mental health outreach services to enhance the

psychological and emotional well-being of students and the College community, the Senior Counselor is

responsible for an administrative portfolio including outreach, clinical, and programmatic responsibilities in an

inclusive, collaborative, and integrated Center for Health and Wellness.

This is a full-time, benefits eligible, salaried position with a hiring range of $77,215 - $89,867 per hour.

Core Responsibilities:
  • Provides psychological counseling and crisis intervention for students, implements appropriate assessments and clinical interventions, and provides consultation to Staff Counselors as needed
  • Organize and implements Counseling's outreach activities including: group programming, workshop series, trainings to achieve Counseling's outreach goals.
  • Assesses, builds, and maintains relationships with campus partners to foster collaboration, reduce mental health stigma, and increase help/service seeking amongst students
  • Facilitates skills and process trainings for students and employees including cross-discipline trainings led by Center for Health and Wellness staff
  • Completes timely documentation in the EHR according to best practices and Counseling policies
  • Supports the Director, and Associate Directors with identifying and addressing issues related to risk, referrals, confidentiality, and crisis management
  • Participates in Counselor on-call rotation
  • Provides pre-licensure intern and/or student worker supervision as assigned

Requirements
  • Clinical experience in assessment, treatment planning, shared decision-making, and crisis response
  • Demonstrated success in outreach, group programs, or other therapeutic modalities outside of one-on-one therapy
  • Demonstrated use of multicultural approaches to clinical care and proven record of successful work with clients and stakeholders from diverse cultural and educational backgrounds
  • Commitment to addressing intersections of multiple identities and their related health outcomes
  • Successful collaboration with clinical and administrative staff to support student success
  • Strong knowledge of the social, psychological, and physical developmental stages of students
  • 5 years of experience
  • Master's degree required in counseling, psychology, social work or related clinical field with current, or eligible to obtain, Vermont licensure


Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

Regularly operates a computer and other office productivity tools. Regularly moves about inside the office and

requires regular cross-campus and cross-town travel. Schedule flexibility is required including occasional

early mornings, evenings, weekends, and holidays to attend events and facilitate programming according to

the academic calendar.

Other:

An offer for this position is contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check and references.

Benefits

As an employee of Middlebury College in Vermont, you will enjoy being part of a vibrant supportive community.

Middlebury offers its employees excellent compensation and competitive health, dental, life, disability, generous retirement matching, and vision benefits, and a generous time-away program - up to 34 days per year, increasing as the term of service lengthens. Employees are eligible for robust educational assistance programs. The result is a very high quality-of-life in a gorgeous setting. Middlebury College offers its employees excellent compensation and other perks of employment including:
  • MiddCard Privileges: access to athletic facilities, discounts at the college store, library privileges, and cultural and sporting events. Spouses or domestic partners are eligible to receive a card with the same privileges.
  • Discounts on season passes at Middlebury College's Snow Bowl, the Ralph Myhre Golf Course and the Rikert Outdoor Center.
  • Access to our Partner Inclusion Program that provides comprehensive support services to the spouses and partners of Middlebury employees.
  • A full listing of our benefit offerings can be found on our website or click to see some of the other fun perks of working at Middlebury, whether in Middlebury, VT or Monterey, CA!

About Middlebury College

Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont. The college currently enrolls 2,858 undergraduates from all 50 states and 74 countries and offers 44 majors in the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences, as well as joint engineering programs with Columbia University, Dartmouth College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In addition to its undergraduate liberal arts program, the school also has graduate schools, the Middlebury College Language Schools, the Bread Loaf School of English, and the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, as well as its C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad international programs. It is the among the Little Ivies, an unofficial group of academically selective liberal arts colleges, mostly in the northeastern United States. Middlebury is known for progressive teaching and thought. The college was the first American institution of higher education to award a bachelor's degree to an African-American, graduating Alexander Twilight in the class of 1823. Middlebury was also one of the first formerly all-male liberal arts colleges in New England to become a coeducational institution, following the trustees' decision in 1883 to accept women. In 1965, the college established the first undergraduate Environmental Studies program in the United States, and, in 2019, publicly committed to full divestment of the college's endowment from the fossil fuel industry through its Energy2028 initiative.
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