Community Wellness Specialist - Military Veterans
at HERC- Upper MidWest
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- Holds by-appointment individual counseling sessions with students and technical interns. 2. Facilitates group counseling sessions on a set schedule. 3. Partners with Yale Behavioral Health to refer students with immediate clinical needs. 4. Partners with YSD Title IX Coordinator/Dean's Designee for Discrimination and Harassment to refer students with immediate confidential needs to appropriate Yale resources. 5. May perform other duties as assigned.
Required Skill/ability 1: Demonstrated ability to counsel undergraduate students. Sensitivity towards intergenerational communication, racial/ethnic identity processing, and issues of belonging across race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomics, etc.
Required Skill/ability 2: Demonstrated ability to provide sensitive non-clinical counseling and follow-up contact with students with serious mental illness and those in crisis (e.g. after a psychiatric hospitalization), as well as students returning from time away from Yale (leave of absence).
Required Skill/ability 3: Strongly demonstrated counseling, collaboration, and communication skills. Ability to develop, conduct and facilitate group discussions.
Required Skill/ability 4: Demonstrated ability to support students with issues of stress, coping, and conflict-resolution through de-escalation, wellness and resilience.
Required Skill/ability 5: Ability to manage working with multiple reporting lines and prioritize time-sensitive issues. Ability to work a flexible schedule to provide services when students' schedules allow.
Preferred Education: Knowledge of Yale's Residential College system. Proven experience with students in a highly-selective, liberal arts environment. Interest and/or experience working with alcohol and substance use is preferred.
Work Week: Standard (M-F equal number of hours per day)
Posting Position Title: Counselor, non-clinical
University Job Title: Community Wellness Specialist
Preferred Education, Experience and Skills: Knowledge of Yale's Residential College system. Proven experience with students in a highly-selective, liberal arts environment. Interest and/or experience working with alcohol and substance use is preferred.
Master's Degree in Psychology, Social Work, or related field. Two years' work experience in a clinical setting counseling students individually and/or in groups or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
New Haven, CT
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