Equity-Minded Campus Mental Health Counselor

Southwestern Community College District; Chula Vista (CA); On-site; USD 77,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Southwestern Community College District seeks a full-time, tenure-track Mental Health Counselor to support the MOCSE program and provide campus counseling services. The role emphasizes equity-minded counseling and services to a diverse student body at multiple campus sites in Chula Vista and surrounding communities.

The counselor will deliver brief interventions, crisis response, and coordination with campus and community resources to promote student success, retention, and personal growth while

Qualifications

• Diverse student populations.
• Counseling principles, practices, and techniques.
• Applicable policies, procedures, goals, and objectives of a student mental health program.
• Pertinent federal, state, and local laws, codes, and regulations.
• Effective and appropriate communication skills.
• Principles and procedures of record keeping and report preparation.
• English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
• Interpersonal skills using tact, patience, and courtesy.
• Oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, and implement the delivery of psychological/mental health services to a culturally and ethnically diverse campus community.
• Provide psychological services and mental health counseling to students including psychological assessment and brief psychotherapy in support of student academic success and retention.
• Provide referral services to students in need of psychological resources beyond those offered on campus.
• Serve as a consultant to faculty, staff, and administration on psychological/mental health matters that may influence the student behavior, motivation, and learning process issues including serious mental illness, thoughts of harm to self or others, domestic and relationship violence, stalking, and substance/alcohol abuse.
• Provide crisis intervention to students as needed.
• Provide professional development training; distribute resources to staff and faculty.
• Develop workshops and programs that enhance students’ abilities to benefit from college including anger management, conflict resolution, domestic violence, and communication skills.
• Collaborate with student campus community members in designing innovative programs to enhance student success.
• Maintain confidential counseling records.

Job description

Southwestern Community College District seeks a full-time, tenure-track Mental Health Counselor to support the MOCSE program and provide campus counseling services. The role emphasizes equity-minded counseling and services to a diverse student body at multiple campus sites in Chula Vista and surrounding communities.

The counselor will deliver brief interventions, crisis response, and coordination with campus and community resources to promote student success, retention, and personal growth while