Multicultural Mental Health Professional (Mental Health Specialist)

Job Summary

This is an ideal role for an experienced clinician who thrives on and is rewarded by direct clinical work and enjoys developing new initiatives and programming.

Department-Specific Responsibilities

• Evaluates and treats mental health concerns.
• Contributes toward personal development, maturation, and wellness.
• Facilitates adjustment to the School of Medicine, residency training programs, and fellowship programs.
• Supports academic persistence.
• Works collaboratively with IUSM stakeholders, faculty, staff, and learners to support medical learners.
• Promotes a respectful and inclusive IUSM learning environment that fosters professional and personal growth.
• Provides direct clinical services (individual evaluations, individual counseling, couples counseling, group therapy, triage, and crisis care including some after-hours on call coverage) for IUSM medical trainees statewide with particular emphasis on meeting the needs of our BIPOC and URM medical learners.
• Delivers quality clinical care.
• Supports programming and outreach services that focus on the mental health needs and barriers to care for learners from underrepresented groups and the development and implementation of initiatives to address these needs.
• Leads efforts to assess, refine and redevelop these programming efforts for the department that are innovative, responsive, culturally relevant, and coordinated.
• Participates in departmental long-term strategic planning regarding diversity and inclusion issues.
• Coordinates and organizes trainings that will help staff further develop cultural competency in the areas of identity development, intersections of identity, and theoretical frameworks that promote equity and inclusion.
• Liaises with IUSM stakeholders, faculty, and campus committees for matters related to equity, diversity and inclusion.
• Performs diagnostic assessments; provides individual, couples, and group psychotherapy for medical learners statewide.
• Provides triage referrals; provides crisis management and stabilization.
• Provides after-hours back-up call coverage.
• Communicates with referral sources within the IU system (i.e., program directors, lead advisors, faculty).
• Facilitates treatment planning including referrals to providers outside of the IU system for outpatient and inpatient care as needed.
• Coordinates post-hospitalization care and follow-up.
• Collaborates with members of the mental health services team, and across the School and university, to facilitate quality patient care providers outside of the IU system for outpatient and inpatient care.
• Coordinates post-hospitalization care and follow-up.
• Provides consultation to faculty, administrators, and stakeholders for issues that have psychological.
• Designs and delivers psycho-educational programming and community outreach services for IUSM medical trainees with particular emphasis on issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Works effectively as a collaborative member of the mental health services team to develop and implement programming and outreach.
• Participates in the assessment, implementation, and development of improvements to the delivery of mental health services and programming provided to medical trainees across the IUSM system with particular attention to the mental health needs of BIPOC and URM medical learners.
• Engages in policy formulation and implementation related to diversity and inclusion efforts for DMHS. Upon request, help staff formulate multicultural or social justice goals for internal DMHS staff performance review.
• Coordinates and organizes trainings that will help staff further develop cultural competency in the areas of identity development, intersections of identity and theoretical frameworks that promote equity and inclusion.
• Provides leadership and direction to DMHS and consult with campus committees related to matters of equity, diversity and inclusion.
• Maintains liaison relationships with other diversity positions and committees within IUSM.
• Provides strategic consultation for the leadership team in areas of recruitment of staff and trainees, campus and department culture of diversity strengths and challenges, and how these affect the delivery of mental health services.
• Partners with DMHS leadership team to organize the DMHS response when issues related to diversity and / or inclusion are prominent.
• Provides leadership and consultation in deciding how to staff these events and presentation.
• Attends DMHS clinical and staff meetings.
• Completes scheduling of patients and documentation of clinical work in a timely and complete manner.
• Provides regular reports regarding work activities to the Director.
• Provides a brief overview of the academic year's equity, diversity and inclusion efforts from the past year, submitted to the Director for use in annual reports.
• Performs some work via telehealth.

General Responsibilities

• Conducts individual intake assessments.
• Provides direct clinical mental health services to individuals, groups, and couples.
• Manages individual caseload so as to be able to incorporate new clients in an ongoing manner.
• Maintains accurate, timely clinical notes, following Quality Improvement committee standards.
• Adheres to relevant ethical and legal standards of HIPAA, relevant professional bodies, state boards.
• Consults with and refers to other professionals when appropriate (e.g. psychiatrists, medical providers, and dietitians).
• Utilizes evidence-based clinical interventions and, as appropriate, document in clinical notes.
• Serves on emergency response teams.
• Participates in active educational outreach programs.
• May supervise Master's level mental health students.

Qualifications

EDUCATION

Required

Master's degree in relevant mental heath area from an accredited program.

Preferred

Doctoral degree in Clinical or Counseling Psychology.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Required

4 years of post-degree experience.

Preferred

Experience with minoritized populations.

Experience providing programs and outreach that advance values of diversity, social justice, and cultural competency within the delivery of mental health care.

• Experience with diversity, equity, and inclusion matters as they pertain to the delivery of mental health care.
• Experience with the young adult learner populations.

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES

Required

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of Indiana or license eligible upon date of hire; OR
• Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the state of Indiana or license eligible upon date of hire.

SKILLS

Required

• Proficient communication skills.
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism.
• Demonstrated time management and priority setting skills.
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality.
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty.
• Highly thorough and dependable.
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure.
• Possesses a high degree of initiative.
• Ability to influence internal and / or external constituents.

Preferred

• Demonstrates cultural humility and curiosity.
• Demonstrated experience working with communities of color, LGBTQI+ populations, international trainees, first generation learners, and those holding other intersectional identities.
• Possesses sensitivity to issues of gender, culture, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, and socio-economic status.
• Demonstrated delivery of culturally-competent mental health care.
• Ability to counsel learners with diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to provide individual, couples, and group psychotherapy.
• Demonstrates complex clinical decision-making.
• Proficient understanding of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives and program development.
• Demonstrates program assessment and execution.
• Possesses ability to supervise.
• Ability to deliver high-quality psychoeducational and outreach programming.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively.
• Ability to use an Electronic Medical Record.
• Ability to use computer-based word processing, spreadsheet, electronic communication, database, and scheduling software
• Ability to use standard office equipment such as copy machine, fax, and multiline phone systems.
• Strong work ethic.
• Knowledge of mental health systems in the State of Indiana.

Working Conditions / Demands

This role requires sedentary work as well as extended durations of moving about the workplace. It requires the ability to move objects and equipment weighing up to 25 pounds, and the ability to discern between various objects and devices and to position patients.

The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without an accommodation.

Work Location

Indianapolis, Indiana

This position is eligible to work a hybrid schedule (mix between remote and in-person work), subject to change in the future based on university policy and business needs.

Advertised Salary

$80,000 - $85,000 per year based on candidate experience, skills, and qualifications.

Benefits Overview

For full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including :

• Multiple plan options for medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Health Savings Account with generous IU contribution
• Life insurance, LTD, and AD&D options
• Base retirement plan contribution from IU, subject to vesting
• Additional supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition benefit for IU classes
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Learn more about our benefits by reviewing our online Benefits Brochure.

Job Classification

Career Level : Advanced

FLSA : Exempt

Job Function : Health Services

Job Family : Behavioral Health

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