Director of Counseling Services
Summary
| Title: | Director of Counseling Services |
|---|---|
| ID: | 1484 |
| Department: | Student Engagement |
Description
Job Summary
Reporting to the Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Experience, the Director of Counseling is a key member of the senior leadership team for the Division of Enrollment Management & Student Experience. The Director is responsible for the College’s counseling programs, providing vision, leadership, and supervisions for staff in the delivery of services.
Job Duties (but not limited to):
Reporting to the Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Experience, the Director of Counseling is a key member of the senior leadership team for the Division of Enrollment Management & Student Experience. The Director is responsible for the College’s counseling programs, providing vision, leadership, and supervisions for staff in the delivery of services.
Job Duties (but not limited to):
- Provides leadership and supervision for counseling center to continuously improve student counseling services support.
- Ensures effective practices for triage, intake, scheduling and documentation of individual clinical encounters, therapy and support groups.
- Establishes on-call schedule and shares on-call responsibility with other Center clinicians for 24/7 counselor availability for urgent/emergency needs during the year.
- Manages the Counseling Center budget.
- Provides periodic and annual analysis and reporting on Center programs, operations, clinical utilization, strategic plan and goals.
- Facilitates timely response to urgent requests for psychological intervention during regular office hours, after-hours and for phone consultation only during break periods in the academic calendar.
- Coordinates the delivery of quality counseling services to meet student needs. Ensures compliance with laws, ethical rues, and regulations. Develops and maintains sound counseling policies and procedures. Utilizes electronic counseling records management system and ensures the confidentiality of counseling records.
- Provides workshops to classes, groups of students, academic departments, and student organizations; develop, organize and execute Cultural Enrichment events, workshops, and presentations.
- Composes and update handbooks, guidebooks, and other sources to assist the job searching process, including oversight of the social media platforms.
- Other duties as assigned by the Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Experience.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s degree in counseling, clinical psychology, counselor education, social work or a closely related field, doctorate preferred. Must be a licensed professional counselor (LPC). Three years of professional clinical counseling experience and one to two years coordinating counseling programs. Counseling experience in higher education strongly preferred. Possession of or ability to readily obtain Georgia professional counseling licensure.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of counseling theory, techniques, approaches, and best practices. Knowledge of the regulations governing the practice of professional counseling in the State of Georgia.
- Ability to work with a variety of candidates that includes freshman students to 5th+ year seniors, veterans, alumni ranging from entry level to senior level talent, career changers/retires and non-degree seeking LaGrange College students.
- Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with community organizations, public/private agencies, faculty, staff, and students.
- Proven record of being able to utilize effective time management, organization, prioritization, and attention to detail while performing multiple duties, often under stress.
- Proven record of innovative and strategic thinking as well as a passion for building and adapting programs to meet the changing needs of today’s students.
LaGrange College is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected status.
