Clinical Director

Syracuse University

Syracuse, New York, United States (On-site)

Job Description

Barnes Center at The Arch is Syracuse University’s integrated health and wellness center, incorporating counseling, health, health promotion, and recreation. As part of counseling’s leadership team, the Clinical Director is responsible for coordination and oversight of counseling’s clinical services and day-to-day operations. Specifically, the Clinical Director oversees and coordinates clinical coverage, creates and revises clinical policies and procedures, oversees emergency and drop-in systems, and supervise all coordinators of clinical service components including the group coordinator, the AOD coordinator, the Sexual and Relationship Violence coordinator, and the clinical case manager.

Additional responsibilities include maintaining a small caseload, leading a therapy group, providing consultation for the campus community, participation in the center’s after-hours on-call rotation, assisting in designing and conducting outcome studies to evaluate the effectiveness of the center services, and participation on appropriate Counseling Center and/or university committees. As part of the Barnes Center leadership team the Clinical Director works closely with other Barnes Center areas to advance the Barnes Center integrated treatment model.

Qualifications

Master’s degree, or higher, in a mental health discipline (clinical or counseling psychology, social work, counselor education, or marriage and family therapy). Minimum 7 years post-degree experience including administrative and/or supervisory experience in a clinical setting.

Must be licensed within the state of New York or become licensed upon beginning the role.

Job Specific Qualifications

• Experience providing supervision and clinical services from a social justice framework and with a culturally diverse population.
• Experience with policy and procedure design and evaluation.
• Experience with crisis intervention, risk assessment, management of potentially high risk clients and demonstrated ability to provide related supervision and/or consultation to a multidisciplinary staff.
• Experience providing clinical and/or administrative supervision.
• Experience providing group therapy. Excellent verbal and written communication skill.
• Ability to support and motivate clinical and administrative support staff. Understanding of organizational systems and the ability to work collaboratively and creatively with individuals from a wide range of professional disciplines. Strong leadership skills .
• Must be able to take initiative, operate independently, and be comfortable making decisions in a fast pace environment.

Responsibilities

• Oversight and management of the day-to-day clinical services provided by Barnes Center at The Arch Counseling, including oversight of drop-in and emergency services, provision of consultation/supervision for Counseling Center staff, supervision of all clinical service coordinators, and consultation with office coordinator and business operations as needed.
• In partnership with the director, develop, review, and implement policies and procedures as they pertain to clinical functioning; assist in establishing clinical programs and priorities to support clinical functioning; assist in design and implementation of evaluation of services,
• Provision of clinical services including individual therapy, group therapy, and crisis coverage and timely completion of paperwork.
• Participation on appropriate Barnes Center committees and collaboration with Barnes Center Health to promote integrated treatment delivery model.
• Other duties as assigned including participating in, and organizing on-call schedule.

For more information and to apply, please visit http://www.sujobopps.com and search for job# 037872.

Syracuse University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer committed to fostering a diverse faculty. Women and minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply.