Job Details
Mental Health Counselor
The Hill School Mission: The Hill School prepares young people from across the country and around the world for college, careers, and life. Within a family school environment and a rigorous liberal arts curriculum, we challenge our young people to work hard; think and reason; be fulfilled; serve the common good; and be prepared to lead as citizens of the world, uniquely guided by our motto, "Whatsoever Things Are True."
Department: Counseling Center
Position Title: Mental Health Counselor
Reports To: Director of Counseling
Status: Temporary
Position Summary
The Hill School is seeking a Mental Health Counselor with a start date of August 26, 2024, to cover a 12 week maternity leave. This professional will offer assessments, clinical counseling, support, and guidance to students. Operating within the Counseling Center, the clinician will provide personalized counseling to students to proactively influence mental health and promote overall wellness.
Responsibilities and Qualifications
Primary focus of the Mental Health Counselor includes but are not limited to the following:
- Perform psycho-social assessments and recommend treatment based on assessment outcomes.
- Provide individual, group, and family counseling.
- Create personalized treatment plans addressing identified needs, with tailored goals, methods, and techniques.
- Plan and deliver student prevention education lessons promoting resiliency, reducing mental health disorders and substance abuse, and enhancing overall wellbeing.
- Plan and deliver prevention education lessons to faculty and parents, promoting resiliency, reducing mental health disorders and substance abuse, and enhancing overall wellbeing.
- Participate in weekly clinical supervision with the Counseling team.
- Collaborate with school faculty to support students' academic and social-emotional well-being.
- Adhere to confidentiality and clinical record-keeping requirements of the Counseling Program.
- Work effectively within a team environment
Ideally, a candidate should have at least 5 years of supervised post-graduate counseling experience working with an adolescent population. Experience and demonstrated success working with diverse student communities is preferred, but not required. A Master's degree is required.
The ideal candidate should have the following qualifications:
- Licensed as independent-level providers in the state of Pennsylvania, such as Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs) or those who have completed a Master's program and passed their state licensing board exam and are open to working under supervision to pursue licensure.
- Excellent communication and delivery skills
- Competency with clinical record documentation and experience with electronic medical records
- Previous work experience specifically in adolescent substance abuse
- Previous work experience teaching prevention topics in the classroom setting or in front of large groups for students, parents, and faculty.
- Training in motivational interviewing techniques.
Attitude and Demeanor- Publicly support the mission and vision of The Hill School in a positive and professional manner.
- Work as a dynamic team member in a professional collaborative environment.
- Energetic and organized enough to thrive in an extremely fast-paced environment while collaborating with a growing team to produce great work.
- Ability to wear many hats, learn new things every day, and have the ability to switch from a variety of roles with ease and excitement.
- Communicate effectively with warmth, sensitivity, humor, and understanding as they deal with administrative colleagues, teachers, students, alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and program associates.
- Possess a "service attitude" - willingness to be flexible to meet the needs of the department and school.
Position is contingent upon successful completion of certain background checks, including criminal history background checks, fingerprint-based background checks, reference checks, employment history checks, and educational background checks, upon hire and during the course of your employment, to the extent permitted by law and consistent with the School's policies regarding employment eligibility.