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Mission Statement for the Brandeis Counseling Center: The BCC mission is to meet the developmental, emotional and mental health needs of
the students of the university. We are a multicultural treatment center that is committed to the values of diversity and inclusivity.
We are a multidisciplinary team that is committed to multicultural guidelines put forth by the National Association of Social Work and
the American Psychological Association. The APA guidelines below have been adapted by replacing “Psychologist” with
“Clinicians”:
Guideline 1. Clinicians seek to recognize and understand that identity and self-definition
are fluid and complex and that the interaction between the two is dynamic. To this end, Clinicians appreciate that intersectionality is
shaped by the multiplicity of the individual’s social contexts.
Guideline 2. Clinicians aspire to recognize
and understand that as cultural beings, they hold attitudes and beliefs that can influence their perceptions of and interactions with others
as well as their clinical and empirical conceptualizations. As such, “Clinicians” strive to move beyond conceptualizations
rooted in categorical assumptions, biases, and/or formulations based on limited knowledge about individuals and communities.
Guideline 3. Clinicians strive to recognize and understand the role of language and communication through engagement
that is sensitive to the lived experience of the individual, couple, family, group, community, and/or organizations with whom they interact.
Clinicians also seek to understand how they bring their own language and communication to these interactions.
Guideline
4. Clinicians endeavor to be aware of the role of the social and physical environment in the lives of clients, students, research
participants, and/or consultees.
Guideline 5. Clinicians aspire to recognize and understand historical and
contemporary experiences with power, privilege, and oppression. As such, they seek to address institutional barriers and related inequities,
disproportionalities, and disparities of law enforcement, administration of criminal justice, educational, mental health, and other systems
as they seek to promote justice, human rights, and access to quality and equitable mental and behavioral health services.
Guideline 6. Clinicians seek to promote culturally adaptive interventions and advocacy within and across systems,
including prevention, early intervention, and recovery.
Guideline 7. Clinicians endeavor to examine the
profession’s assumptions and practices within an international context, whether domestically or internationally based, and consider
how this globalization has an impact on the psychologist’s self-definition, purpose, role, and function.
Guideline
8. Clinicians seek awareness and understanding of how developmental stages and life transitions intersect with the larger
biosociocultural context, how identity evolves as a function of such intersections, and how these different socialization and maturation
experiences influence worldview and identity.
Guideline 9. Clinicians strive to conduct culturally appropriate
and informed research, teaching, supervision, consultation, assessment, interpretation, diagnosis, dissemination, and evaluation of efficacy
as they address the first four levels of the Layered Ecological Model of the Multicultural Guidelines.
Guideline 10.
Clinicians actively strive to take a strength-based approach when working with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations
that seeks to build resilience and decrease trauma within the sociocultural context.
Essential Functions:
Cultural Sensitivity: This clinician will engage in training experiences at the BCC that support their growth toward the
APA standard of multicultural guidelines.
Operations and daily management: This clinician will arrange staffing
patterns to ensure cohesive operations. This clinician will supervise day to day activity at the Brandeis Counseling
Center: managing staffing and overseeing clinical operations.
Oversight of programming: This clinician will work in
partnership with the counseling center director to develop programming within the center and in the Brandeis community.
Clinical Care: This clinician will provide consultation to the staff and ensure effective delivery of individual and
group therapy. This clinician may carry a case load. This clinician will oversee management of high risk and/or complex students.
Teaching and Supervision: The Associate Director will supervise clinical staff which may or may not include trainees,
and may lead seminars. This clinician will also provide in-service training to staff on subject areas of expertise. This clinician will
supervise the assessment and treatment coordinator. Quality Assurance: Assist with reviewing student charts to ensure
compliance with policy and procedures as set forth in the Policies and Procedures manual and will insure that documentation is being
completed in a timely and accurate manner.
Emergency Coverage: This clinician will be available for emergencies
outside of business hours in a call rotation.
Coordination with Campus Partners: This clinician will attend Weekend
Recap, Care Team and Housing Accommodations committee meetings and other meetings as needed.
Hiring Process: This
clinician will participate in the interview process for open positions. This clinician will mentor new staff for the first three months, and
organize the orientation process.
Time Commitment: As an exempt position, the Associate Director may be called on to
work beyond their scheduled hours to complete the work that is presenting itself on any given day or shift. This clinician will be available
to work the shifts needed to adequately staff the center
Position Requirements:
Education: This clinician
must have completed a PhD or PsyD in psychology, EdD or MSW in social work or Masters in Counseling and be licensed or license eligible in
the state of MA.
Experience: 5-8 years of college counseling experience and at least 3 years of management and/or leadership
experience.
Because we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential components of clinical excellence, we are seeking
candidates whose practice and values reflect our mission. We strongly encourage women, people of color, religious and ethnic minorities,
members of the LGBTQIA community, individuals with disabilities, individuals from other underrepresented groups, as well as individuals
whose work or interests demonstrate a commitment to social change, to apply
Closing Statement
Brandeis
University is committed to providing its students, faculty and staff with an environment conducive to learning and working and where all
people are treated with respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, ethnicity, caste, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation,
gender identity/expression, including transgender identity, religion, disability, age, genetics, active military or veteran status and any
other characteristics protected under applicable federal or Massachusetts law.
