Careers Job Description
General Description
Job Title: Psychotherapist
Location: MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE
Full/Part Time: FULL TIME
Regular/Temporary: REGULAR
Background
Macaulay Honors College at CUNY is a highly selective college, serving eight of the University’s senior campuses, where some of New York’s most promising students receive the financial and academic support necessary to realize their leadership potential.
Macaulay's full-tuition merit scholarship and Opportunities Fund offer students the freedom to follow their passions and to explore the full range of academic offerings on their home campuses and throughout CUNY—without a student debt load that might otherwise inhibit their choices. Macaulay Honors College is committed to providing our students with an unmatched level of advisement and other resources that enable them to pursue their aspirations and make the most of what Macaulay, their home campus, and CUNY have to offer, and to implement their ideas in the real world both as students and graduates.
Macaulay seeks to attract and retain the best students from New York and around the world and provide them with unparalleled opportunities to learn and grow both inside and outside the classroom. A sizeable portion of our students are from immigrant families and/or the first in their families to attend college.
In early 2016, Macaulay received a generous gift enabling us to begin to develop a holistic, cross-campus wellness initiative aimed at dissolving student anxiety, stress and competition while encouraging cooperation, empowerment, and new forms of self and community care. One of the college’s first priorities is to hire an experienced psychotherapist who can counsel our students, both one-on-one and as a facilator of group sessions, and also recruit and supervise one or two doctoral level clinical interns. The successful candidate for this position will work in office space on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and report to Macaulay’s Associate Director of Immersive and Personalized Education.
General Duties
Provide psychological counseling to individual students
- Facilitate group counseling sessions
- ? Perform crisis intervention for emergency situations
- ? Supervise risk assessment and management of high risk cases
- ? Consult with instructional and administrative staff regarding student mental health issues
- ? Direct planning, evaluation, assessment and marketing of Macaulay’s counseling services
- ? Recruit, supervise and develop a small number of clinical interns
- ? Supervise undergraduate discussion group leaders and assist in training them in all aspects of peer support and facilitation
- ? Prepare and present outreach initiatives, seminars and workshops on all aspects of student wellness
- ? Participate in recommending improvements that will increase the effectiveness of the wellness initiative
- ? Author and co-author reports—including progress reports to the donor, as well as program updates for internal audiences.
- ? Ensure client satisfaction and respond to client complaints
- ? Develop an after-hours protocol to address student needs that arise outside business hours
Perform other duties as assigned
Other Duties
The position also has an educational component, as we will be relying on the successful candidate to assist Macaulay students, alums and staff as we seek to create a new culture of wellness at our school—through educational events, seminars, trainings, and the like. The successful candidate will therefore have excellent communication and leadership skills—as well as very strong interpersonal skills and an ability to provide supervisory guidance to both students and beginning clinicians.
A candidate with experience facilitating group discussion and therapy is strongly preferred, and candidates who have done so are encouraged to send workshop samples as supporting materials to supplement their applications. Given Macaulay’s emphasis on contemplative practice, a candidate with experience with mindfulness-based approaches to therapy is preferred. Rather than a strict adherence to a single theoretical orientation, we seek a clinician with an integrative background and the flexibility to meet our students from a number of perspectives.
Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
A Ph.D in Clinical or Counseling Psychology or a Psy.D from an APA accredited doctoral program is preferred. Highly qualified Licensed Clinical Social Workers with extensive relevant experience are also encouraged to apply. A minimum of six years of clinical experience is required. The successful candidate must be licensed in the State of New York.
Ideally, a significant portion of the candidate’s clinical experience will have been spent with an young adult/college-age population, and candidate will be familiar with the unique needs of students at a large, urban, multicultural public university like ours. An understanding of multicultural psychology and experience working effectively with clients from diverse backgrounds is vital.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Macaulay Honors College, Wellness Initia
Full Time
$85,000.00 - $92,200.00
Oct 27, 2016 (Or Until Filled)