Job Overview
Mental Health Counselor – North Campus
Essential Job Functions:
- Actively assist students with applying for local, state, and federal benefits.
- Provide career, mental health and crisis counseling to students.
- Develop, foster, and maintain relationships with community agencies and organizations to connect students with services.
- Work with specific at-risk populations to create pathways for success.
- Plan and implement mental health awareness, social services and educational events for students.
- Deliver classroom presentations and facilitate workshops for students.
- Provide academic advising and registration assistance, as needed.
Additional Job Functions:
- Work cooperatively with counterparts on the other campuses to achieve the College’s annual goals and objectives.
- Represent SJC with outside educational institutions, internal departments, and professional organizations.
- Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Facilitate timely, professional communication and problem resolution strategies
- Maintain processes and systems that improve the quality of customer support services.
- Demonstrate working functional knowledge and use of Banner.
- Coordinate, plan, and implement targeted events and activities on campus.
- Conduct individual and group counseling.
- Provide career testing, exploration, and counseling services.
- Maintain counseling records as required by federal and state professional counseling regulations
- Must possess outstanding customer service skills and have the ability to work with multiple projects and within deadlines
- Must be knowledgeable about and be responsive to FERPA law and regulations
- Must be available for occasional nights and weekends activities
Required Education:
- Master’s degree in Counseling, Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy or related discipline from a regionally accredited college/university. Degree must have prepared applicant to perform mental health and crisis counseling.
Required Experience:
- Minimum of one (1) year of work experience providing counseling and academic support services to students.
- Knowledge and experience with administering and evaluating career and / or mental health assessments.
- Experience with creating and fostering student success, retention and completion.
- Experience in career/educational, individual, short-term counseling, crisis intervention, minority concerns, learning styles/study skills.
- Knowledge and experience with administering and evaluating college-level assessments, including computerized tests.
- Experience with creating and fostering student success, retention and completion.
Preferred Experience:
- Licensed Professional Counselor (L.P.C.), National Certified Counselor (N.C.C.), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (L.M.F.T.) and / or Licensed Master Social Worker (L.M.S.W.) preferred.
- Experience with community college counseling services.
- Experience with Banner Student Information System.
- Bilingual candidates encouraged to apply.
Preferred Licenses/Certifications:
- Licensed Professional Counselor (L.P.C.), National Certified Counselor (N.C.C.), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (L.M.F.T.) and / or Licensed Master Social Worker (L.M.S.W.) preferred.
- Any license(s) and Certification(s) must meet the State of Texas guidelines and regulations for counseling practices, regardless of exempt status of educational entity.
Note: This position has limited opportunity for remote work arrangements with appropriate approvals and in accordance with the policies, procedures, and needs of the College.
Salary Grade: 25
Salary is based on the Board-approved salary schedule for the current fiscal year. See Salary Schedule
Requisition Number: req3633
Posting Close Date: 4/29/2022
