Senior Behavioral Health Clinician

Senior Behavioral Health Clinician

Posting ID

151921

Department

University Counseling / Student Life

Jobcode

Temp Professional Employee

Working Title

Senior Behavioral Health Clinician

Details

The Division of Student Life : University Counseling Services are seeking a temporary Senior Behavioral Health Clinician. Under direct supervision, the Senior Behavioral Health Clinician Provides psychological services to assist a broad student population in attaining their educational, interpersonal, leadership, and academic goals. Psychological services include individual assessment and counseling; clinical crisis services; case management; group counseling; psycho-educational outreach programming and consultation to students, staff, faculty, administrators, and parents / families; supervision and training to graduate students in the mental health professions.

Duties to Include :

• Carries a clinical case load providing counseling to individuals, couples, and groups, consulting with other professionals as necessary.
• Provides diagnoses, assessment, and treatment for emotional and functional disorders through primarily brief model counseling.
• Follows overall therapeutic policies and goals to ensure operational excellence.
• Coordinates and evaluates the quality of counseling.
• Supports students with case management, including provision of referrals to community providers as needed and appropriate.
• Advises on therapeutic consultation, guidance and oversight for behavior therapy services.
• Collaborates on strategies to reduce patient relapses and improve therapeutic practices.
• Writes and maintains electronic mental health records.
• Provides case management.
• Knowledge of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5
• Supervises, evaluates, and assists trainees in various content areas.
• Conducts workshops and outreach services designed to provide mental health education to students, staff, faculty, administrators, and parents / families.
• Provides clinical supervision to mental health profession trainees at all levels of training.
• Uses knowledge of training techniques to assist trainees in the development of clinical skills.
• Uses awareness of various clinical interventions to assist trainee learning.
• Awareness of program design, facilitation, and evaluation skills to assist training learning.
• Coaches others to improve their skills by providing constructive feedback to enhance skill development.
• Instructs trainees in a number of clinical, training, and outreach competencies.
• Assists trainees in development an individual competency plan to improve skill development.
• Develops cooperative working relationships with UI units
• Designs and develops outreach programs to meet the needs of requesting UI units.
• Monitors, evaluates, and keeps informed of cutting-edge standards of practice in counseling services and keeps abreast of pertinent regulations, standards, publications, and information; provides comparison analysis to supervisors for evaluation.
• May seek funding for and conduct studies and research on mental health issues; may publish or present findings in appropriate professional journals or forums.
• Knowledge of APA, ACA, or NASW Ethical Standards.
• Application and implementation of APA, ACA, or NASW Standards in all areas of clinical work.
• Ensures compliance with standards for all trainees.
• Adherence to agency standards and policies.
• Performs related duties as required.

Position Basics : Hourly Rate : $30

WORK SCHEDULE

Hours : Varies

Additional Information : Temporary position

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Contact

EMMA FRAZIER

Phone : (319) 335-0121

Email : hr-studentlife@uiowa.edu

Application Instructions

Go to the Division of Student Life Portal to complete an online application :

Ad Start Date

09 / 10 / 2025

Ad End Date

10 / 10 / 2025