Search 77.07 - Counseling & Psychological Services Center
Student Services Professional – AR-II, Academic Year (Tenure-Track)
Salary: Negotiable and Commensurate with Experience
San Francisco State University (SF State) is a large urban university. SF State is part of the 23-campus California State University system and serves a diverse student body in liberal arts, sciences and professional programs. The mission of the university is to maintain an environment for learning that promotes an appreciation of scholarship, freedom and human diversity; fosters excellence in instruction and intellectual accomplishment; and provides a broadly accessible higher education. SF State counselor faculty are expected to be effective in their primary area of responsibility; to demonstrate achievement and growth through participation in their profession, continued research, publications, and/or creative activities; and to contribute their academic and/or professional expertise and leadership to the campus and community.
Student Health/Counseling and Psychological Services Center a department within the Division of Student Affairs at SF State, is charged with enhancing the psychological well-being of the campus community. The professional services of the multi-disciplinary counselor faculty are available to the campus community, and include individual, couples and group psychotherapy, crisis intervention, critical incident debriefing, assessment and crisis counseling for faculty and staff, substance abuse prevention and education and other consultation and outreach to the campus community.
Position Description:
Counselor faculty provides the full range of individual and group psychological services to students. Faculty and staff are seen for crisis counseling, assessment and referral. These clients represent a wide range of multicultural backgrounds and present complex psychosocial, personal and family issues. Primary responsibilities of counselors include intake & assessment, individual, group, marital and couples counseling (using time-limited treatment models); outreach; referrals;crisis intervention and consultation. Counselor faculty effectively represent the Counseling and Psychological Services Center as a member of the university faculty, and perform additional professional services as individual skills, interests and agency needs indicate. Evening hours may be required.
Required Qualifications:
Applicant must currently possess an appropriate degree in counseling, psychology or a specific related field, and a clinical license as a Psychologist. Additionally, applicants must have experience and clinical effectiveness in multi-cultural counseling approaches with ethnically and culturally diverse clients and communities; clinical skills and experience in time-limited, short term treatment modalities, with a broad range of complex personal and interpersonal issues; ability to establish effective working collaborations between individuals and groups representing different cultures, interest groups and/or departments; ability to provide effective consultation regarding a variety of psychological issues; strong clinical assessment skills; crisis/suicide intervention experience and critical incident debriefing capabilities; and extensive experience making discerning judgments regarding complex legal and ethical issues. Applicants must also be willing to participate in providing clinical supervision to student interns placed at our Counseling Clinic training program. Candidate must be able and willing to participate in the life of the campus as a member of the faculty.
Preferred Qualifications:
Post graduate clinical experience on a college campus; experience in working with multi-cultural populations, urban setting; knowledge and experience of psychological testing, Spanish-speaking (bilingual/bicultural).
Salary: Negotiable and commensurate with experience.
Student Services Professional-AR II, Academic Year, (Tenure-Track) Range:
$ 55,944.00 – 100,644.00 Annually
Full Benefits includes Medical, Dental and Vision.
Effective: Fall '08 Semester
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THIS POSITION
A. Position Summary
Counselor faculty provides the full range of individual and group psychological services to students. Faculty and staff are seen for crisis counseling, assessment and referral. These clients represent a wide range of multicultural backgrounds and present complex psychosocial, personal and family issues.
B. Essential job functions
Primary responsibilities include:
- Intake and assessment
- Provision of individual, group, marital and couples counseling (using time-limited treatment models)
- Outreach
- Referrals
- Crisis intervention
- Consultations
- Supervision of student interns
- Develop and present workshops
- Psychological testing
Counselors effectively represent the Center as a member of the university faculty, and perform additional professional services as individual skills, interests and agency needs indicate.
C. Skill requirements
- Experience and clinical effectiveness in multicultural counseling approaches with ethnically and culturally diverse clients and communities
- Clinical skills and experience in time-limited, short term treatment approaches, with a broad range of complex personal and interpersonal issues
- Ability to establish effective working collaborations between individuals and groups representing difference cultures, interest groups and/or departments
- Strong clinical assessment skills
- Crisis/suicide intervention experience and critical incident debriefing capabilities
- Extensive experience making discerning judgments regarding complex legal and ethical issues
- Knowledge and experience in providing psychological testing
D. Nature and scope of decision
Counselor faculty must provide:
- Clinical effectiveness in multicultural counseling approaches with ethnically and culturally diverse clients and communities
- Time-limited, short term treatment approaches, with a broad range of complex personal and interpersonal issues
- Establish effective working collaborations between individuals and groups representing different cultures, interest groups and/or departments
- Effective consultation regarding a variety of psychological issues
- Strong clinical assessment skills
- Crisis/suicide intervention and critical incident debriefing
- Discerning judgments regarding complex legal and ethical issues
- Must be willing to work evenings and weekends if need arises
E. Contacts on and off campus:
Counselor faculty will participate in the life of the campus as a member of the faculty, and meet criteria for retention in a tenure track position (by such means as participation in professional associations, publications, research, creative works and continuing education, and university and community service.)
Additional Information:
Minimum qualifications required to perform all essential functions
Required qualifications:
Applicant must currently possess an appropriate degree in counseling, psychology or a specific related field, and a clinical licensure as a Psychologist. Additionally, applicants must have experience and clinical effectiveness in multicultural counseling approaches with ethnically and culturally diverse client and communities; clinical skills and experience in time-limited, short term treatment modalities, with a broad range of complex personal and interpersonal issues; ability to establish effective working collaborations between individuals and groups representing different cultures, interest groups and/or departments; ability to provide effective consultation regarding a variety of psychological issues; strong clinical assessment skills; crisis/suicide intervention experience and critical incident debriefing capabilities; and extensive experience making discerning judgments regarding complex legal and ethical issues, intervention experience and critical incident debriefing capabilities; extensive experience making discerning judgments regarding complex legal and ethical issues. Applicants must also be willing to participate in providing clinical supervision to student interns placed at our Counseling Clinic training program. Applicants must have experience in providing psychological testing. Applicants must be able and willing to participate in the life of the campus as a member of the faculty, and meet criteria for retention in a tenure track position (by such means as participation in professional associations, publications, research, creative works and continuing education, and university and community service.)
Preferred qualifications:
Post graduate clinical experience on a college campus; experience in working with multi-cultural populations and urban setting, Spanish-speaking bilingual/bicultural; knowledge and experience working with clinical issues common on college settings; e.g., substance abuse, sexual assault, eating disorders, conflict resolution, individual and group conflict resolution, trauma debriefing.
Review of applications begins April 28, 2008
Applicant must submit a cover letter describing skills, knowledge and abilities; a current resume reflecting educational and employment history, scholarship and professional achievements; an official transcript from an accredited educational institution, reflecting highest degree earned; proof of licensure and a minimum of three recent letters of recommendation to:
Contact:
Guadalupe Avila, Chair
Student Affairs Hiring, Retention, Tenure and Promotions Committee
Student Health / Counseling & Psychological Services
Student Services Building, Suite 208
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, CA 94132
(415) 338-2208
SF State is an Equal Opportunity/American with Disabilities Act employer and has a strong commitment to the principles of diversity.
