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Principal Duties:
Under the Supervision of Mental Health Services Leadership Team Member, the Mental Health
Provider - TGD Focus will provide clinical services and outreach programming to UW-Madison students with a focus on serving students who hold TGD identities. To this end, the Mental Health Provider performs the following:

Direct Clinical Services:
1) Provides individual and group therapy services;
2) Participates in the provision of clinical crisis services and on-call mental health services (during business hours);
3) Provides outreach including programming and consultation;
4) Responds to campus crises;
5) Demonstrates a commitment to multiculturalism and serving under-represented/underserved populations;

Additional options for Direct Clinical Services may include:
1) Provides integrated primary care behavioral health interventions within UHS Medical Services
2) Provides couple/partner therapy services;
3) Provides services in a language other than English;
4) Provides supervision of assigned trainees including goal setting, evaluations, and disciplinary action in accordance with training policy and procedures;
5) Administers and interprets limited assessment measures.

Administrative Duties:
1) Maintains accurate and timely documentation for all clinical interactions and consultations;
2) Involved in the development and implementation of programs and services related to focus area;
3) Collaborates with providers and staff in UHS units and with campus partners;
4) Follows agency policies and procedures consistent with state mental health statutes, ethical University of Wisconsin-Madison guidelines, best practices, HIPAA, and FERPA;
5) Attends staff and workgroup meetings
6) Attends MH sponsored professional development activities
7) Serves on internal and external committees;
8) As resources allow, represents UHS on the UW-Madison Campus, in the Madison community, and with local, regional, and national professional organizations; and
9) Other duties as assigned

• 65% Provides individual and group counseling to students struggling with developmental and/or personal mental health issues and refers students to appropriate community resources
• 10% Provides counseling and/or information and referral services to faculty and staff
• 10% Facilitates psycho-educational and process-oriented groups
• 10% Prepares presentations and outreach activities and facilitates student adjustment and success programs to promote a healthy campus
• 5% Serves on multidisciplinary campus committees

Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.

For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion

Required
Master's Degree in counseling, or other related mental health field

Required: Minimum of one year experience in a mental health setting

Preferred: 2+ years experience in a mental health setting working with clients across TGD identities.

Strongly preferred experiences of the candidate include:

1) Experience in an interdisciplinary college mental health treatment setting
2) Experience in brief intervention and mental health crisis assessment
3) Experience in group therapy
4) Experience in consultation and collaboration with campus or community partners and provision of outreach including experience developing campus-wide programs that focus on serving TGD students
5) Experience with electronic health record system
6) Demonstrated attentiveness to intersectionality & health disparities, and a commitment to continued development of cultural competencies
7) Supervision of trainees
8) Experience participating in quality improvement initiatives
9) Experience participating in multidisciplinary teams including medical providers and/or academic faculty/staff.

Required
LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor
Must be licensed, eligible for license, or obtain licensure to practice independently in the state of Wisconsin within the first year of hire.

Full Time: 100%

This position may require some work to be performed in-person, onsite, at a designated campus work location. Some work may be performed remotely, at an offsite, non-campus work location.

Ongoing/Renewable

Minimum $60,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
University Health Services is pleased to offer a hiring bonus of $5,000. This will be paid out in 12 equal payments throughout the first year of employment.

UHS is part of Student Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led by the vice chancellor for student affairs. Our staff is dedicated to serving students and to helping them succeed in and out of the classroom in areas including health and wellbeing, identity and inclusion, leadership and engagement, and student advocacy. Student Affairs includes departments led by the dean of students; departments that provide identity-based spaces and leadership resources; the Wisconsin Union; University Health Services; and University Recreation and Wellbeing. Successful applicants are responsible for ensuring their eligibility to work in the United States (i.e. a citizen or national of the United States, a lawful permanent resident, a foreign national authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship) on or before the effective date of appointment.

A criminal background check will be conducted prior to hiring.
The posted salary is the minimum. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.

This vacancy is being announced simultaneously with Job 285995 and Job 286003. Please note that only one vacancy exists. Having three job postings allows University Health Services to consider candidates with social worker, counselor or psychologist credentials for this position.

Click the Apply Online link. You will be required to create an account or login to an existing account. Please upload a cover letter and resume or CV to apply. You will also be asked to provide references in the application.

Liz Valentine
liz.valentine@wisc.edu
608-890-0281
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1. See RELAY_SERVICE for further information.

Counselor(HS078)

A57-UNIV HEALTH SERVICES/CCS/COUNSELING

Academic Staff-Renewable

286000-AS

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.