About the University |
Western Washington University, with over 16,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western is the highest-ranking public, master's-granting university in the Pacific Northwest, according to the 2022 U.S. News & World Report rankings. Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success, increasing our Washington impact, and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship, research, and creative activity. Western's greatest strength is the outstanding students, faculty, staff, and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can thrive. In pursuit of this excellence, individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff, faculty, administration, student, and external constituents. Further, individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic, societal, environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties. |
About the Department |
The Counseling & Wellness Center supports Western's mission, which states that together with our students, staff, and faculty, we are committed to making a positive impact in the state and the world with a shared focus on academic excellence and inclusive achievement. We encourage applications from women, people of color, people with disabilities, veterans, and other candidates from underrepresented backgrounds and with diverse experiences interested in this opportunity.
The Mission of the Counseling and Wellness Center is to facilitate student success and psychological well-being through culturally sensitive clinical services, outreach, and consultation. In keeping with the educational mission of the university, we also contribute to the mental health professions by serving as a training site for graduate students in psychology and counseling. We support the professional development of our staff and strive to embody the wellness we promote within the campus community.
The Counseling and Wellness Center fosters a community that values and respects diversity. An inclusive definition of diversity recognizes the variety of personal and social experiences that make individuals and communities different from one another. These differences include race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, size, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations, genetic information, veteran status, and the many other ways one might identify.
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About the Position |
Provide clinical assessment, referral, psychological counseling, and crisis intervention to university students. Diagnose according to the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Provide clinical supervision to graduate doctoral and masters trainees. Facilitate group therapy. Applicants licensed as a psychologist for at least the past 5 years may be hired at the Psychologist 2 level.
This is a permanent position, available as either an 11-month or 12-month appointment.
Position Duties and Responsibilities
Provide clinical supervision to doctoral and masters-level trainees
- Meeting with supervisee(s) a minimum of two-hours a week face-to-face.
- Reviewing supervisee’s clinical work by case consultation, reviewing session videos and record keeping, and guiding their clinical and professional development.
- Teaching intern seminars.
- Attending supervision conferences to discuss trainees'' progress and prepare written evaluations of supervisees’ work.
Write prompt documentation of assessments, counseling sessions, crisis interventions, and clinical consultation/case management.
- Assist clients in obtaining off-campus referrals when they need or desire longer-term or more specialized counseling.
- Coordinate care with other WWU services (e.g., Student Health Center, Prevention and Wellness Services, disAbility Resources, Student Outreach Services).
Provide culturally informed psychological counseling in individual, couple, and group modalities for a diverse student population across the spectrum of developmental and mental health issues by applying skills and techniques of evaluation, assessment of clients'' diagnosis according to the current DSM, psychometry, psychotherapy, crisis counseling, consultation and referral.
- Provide triage and crisis assessment to evaluate student risk of harm to self (suicide) or harm to others, and determine when a student should be referred for evaluation by a hospital social worker, Designated Mental Health Professional, or another mental health or medical professional.
Provide consultation and outreach to faculty, staff, parents, student organizations, and other campus offices to facilitate student development, increase awareness and understanding of general counseling issues, and identify appropriate responses to student mental health needs within the University setting.
Provide coordination of the Counseling Center’s work in specific areas related to collaboration with other units (e.g., Residence Life), specific services delivered by the CC (e.g., groups program, outreach and consultation), and/or areas of clinical expertise (e.g., military veterans, students having ADHD and/or autism spectrum diagnoses, trauma survivors, students with a diverse range of cultural identities).
Participate in Counseling Center administrative activities, such as staff meetings and committees.
Consult with other staff and trainees about student mental health issues informally as well as in peer consultation, medical - psychological consultation, and professional development training.
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Preferred Qualifications |
Licensed 2 or more years as a psychologist.
Experience supervising doctoral trainees in a college counseling center.
Experience providing outreach and consultation.
Demonstrated competency in providing bilingual therapy.
Experience and skills with Eating Disorders/Body Image Issues, Sexual Assault and DBT.
Experience and skills in working with Latino populations.
Experience and skills in working with Asian populations.
Experience and skills in providing Trans-affirming services.
Experience and skills with use of technology to enhance services.
Experience with Titanium Schedule Electronic Health Record.
Experience working with student-athletes and/or performance populations.
Demonstrated experience in the administration of psychological and cognitive assessments.
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Salary |
Position is available as either an 11-month or 12-month appointment.
For 11 month appointment, hiring range for position is $88,528 - $101,805/year. Through longevity position tops out at $115,082/year.
For 12 month appointment, hiring range for position is $96,580 - $111,067/year. Through longevity position tops out at $125,554/year.
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