GENERALIST MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDER

Job Summary:

Under the supervision of a Mental Health Leadership Team Member, the Mental Health Provider will provide mental health services in an integrated healthcare agency serving UW-Madison students across identities and programs. To this end, the Mental Health Provider performs the following:

Principal duties:
1)Provides individual and group therapy services;
2)Participates in the provision of clinical crisis services and on-call mental health services (during business hours);
3)Provides campus-based services/outreach including programming and consultation;
4)Responds to campus crises;
5)Demonstrates a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and to serving under-represented/underserved populations.

Additional options for Direct Clinical Services may include:
1)Provides behavioral health interventions within Medical Services;
2)Provides couple/partner therapy services;
3)Provides supervision of assigned trainees including goal setting, evaluations, and disciplinary action in accordance with training policy and procedures; and
4)Administers and interprets limited assessment measures.
5)Develops teaching relationships with academic departments; and
6)Administers and interprets limited assessment measures.

Administrative Duties
1)Maintains accurate and timely documentation for all clinical interactions and consultations;
2)Involved in the development and implementation of programs and services at MHS ;
3)Collaborates with providers and staff in UHS units and with campus partners;
4)Follows agency policies and procedures consistent with state mental health statutes, ethical guidelines, best practices, HIPAA, and FERPA;
5)Attends staff, and workgroup meetings as assigned;
6)Attends Mental Health sponsored professional development activities;
7)Serves on internal and external committees;
8)Other duties as assigned

Responsibilities:

Provides professional mental health counseling and consultation services for the campus community, incorporates a brief therapeutic model to address the emotional and behavioral needs of students, creates developmental programming to increase healthy lifestyle and coping behaviors across campus, and provides strategic direction and advocacy for university mental health policy and initiatives.

• 65% Provides individual and group counseling to students struggling with developmental and/or personal mental health issues and refers students to appropriate community resources
• 10% Provides counseling and/or information and referral services to faculty and staff
• 10% Facilitates psycho-educational and process-oriented groups
• 10% Prepares presentations and outreach activities and facilitates student adjustment and success programs to promote a healthy campus
• 5% Serves on multidisciplinary campus committees

Institutional Statement on Diversity:

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Education:

Required
Master's Degree
in Counseling, or another related mental health field

Qualifications:

Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience:
Required: Minimum of one year experience in a mental health setting.
Preferred: Minimum of two years experience in a mental health setting.
Strongly preferred experiences of the candidate include:
1)Experience working in an interdisciplinary college mental health treatment setting;
2)Experience in brief intervention and mental health crisis assessment;
3)Experience providing group therapy;
4)Experience in consultation and collaboration with campus or community partners and provision of campus-based services/outreach including experience developing campus-wide programs;
5)Experience with electronic health record systems;
6)Demonstrated attentiveness to intersectionality & health disparities;
7)Supervision of trainees;
8)Experience participating in multidisciplinary teams including medical providers and academic faculty/staff.

License/Certification:

Required
LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor
For Counselor: License to practice independently in the State of Wisconsin or must be licensed within six months.
You can review Wisconsin licensing requirements at https://go.wisc.edu/y5g8bk

Work Type:

Full Time: 100%

This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.

Appointment Type, Duration:

Ongoing/Renewable