Staff Counselor
Location:
Amherst, MA
Open Date:
Dec 12, 2018
Description:
Amherst College invites applications for the Staff Counselor position. The Staff Counselor is a full time, year round position, job group and level PT-5, that reports to the Director of the Counseling Center. The position relates to the College's mission by providing clinical services to students to help them manage or resolve personal difficulties that could lead them to struggle academically, drop out of school, or cause disruptions in other areas of their functioning. The Counseling Center provides a variety of services including individual and group counseling, psychiatry services, case management, mental health promotion and preventative services, consultation, and teaching. These services are designed to help students overcome mental illnesses or learn how to cope effectively with them, understand themselves better, create and maintain satisfying relationships, improve their academic performance and cognitive functioning, and make healthy and satisfying career and life choices.
The Staff Counselor, along with all the Counseling Center staff, works toward building and sustaining a center that meets the needs of both individual students and the College community as a whole. We recognize that all of our practitioners bring different gifts and try to assign work from a strengths-based perspective, thus allowing people to grow professionally in ways that best fit their talents and skills. Strong commitments to (1) holistic approaches to student development, (2) interdisciplinary treatment models, (3) the development of on-going, personal and professional multicultural competence, (4) collaboration across the College community and (5) a strong work ethic are necessary to succeed in the position. The Counseling Center operates within a developmental philosophy and a brief therapy model, and candidates mu