Job Description: Counsellor
Position Purpose: The purpose of this position is to provide professional counselling services to Massey University students in order to enhance their personal wellbeing and academic performance, thereby promoting student retention and positive academic and emotional outcomes.
Department: Student Counselling | te ratonga hauora
Location: Wellington
Reports to: Team Leader: Student Counselling
Status: Permanent
Delegations: Delegation Band B
Key relationships:
Health & Counselling Centre
Local and national service providers
Colleagues on other campuses
Health Agencies including local and national service providers
Student Experience Services
Halls of Residence
Appropriate pastoral care and support agencies.
Student Care team
Other tertiary education providers.
Student representative bodies and associations
Accountabilities:
Assist individuals to deal with problems adversely impacting their functioning as students by providing appropriate, timely counselling, including assessment, advocacy, and dispute resolution support.
Manage a relatively high-volume caseload across a diverse spectrum of presenting problems, client histories, and mental health concerns.
Design and deliver presentations and workshops as required.
Maintain accurate, concise, timely and confidential records in accordance with the health centre's policies, legal requirements, and administrative best practice standards.
Work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team across the campus & liaise with medical staff to provide comprehensive holistic care.
Qualifications and Experience:
Qualifications: Professional tertiary level qualification in Counselling, psychotherapy, Social Work or Psychology.
Current registration and practicing certificate as evidence of full registration in the respective profession.
Experience: High quality professional experience that demonstrates competency in delivering counselling and psychological services to students and/or similar client groups.
Aptitude in building rapport, clinical engagement, and establishing a therapeutic relationship.
Competence in assessment and intervention across a diversity of needs and populations.
Demonstrated skills and abilities to work in shorter-term and evidence-based psychotherapeutic frameworks.
Demonstrated competence with crisis intervention and referral, concepts of distress tolerance and affect regulation, trauma responses and sequelae, motivation, and relational dynamics.
Sensitivity in working with a variety of cultural and language backgrounds, including Maori and Pasifika students and those in the LGBTQI+ community.
Experience working in the health sector and/or in multidisciplinary teams.
Commitment to reflective practice and both peer and individual/external supervision.
Experience and/or comfort in provision of outreach programmes and psychoeducation, as well as health promotion.
Experience and competence in electronic record keeping and documentation systems.
Capabilities:
Ability to establish trust with clients and colleagues and to form effective therapeutic relationships.
Ability to communicate effectively during crises and communicate with systems of referral in an effective and responsive fashion.
Ability to work flexibly in a busy health and university environment.
Maintain privacy, professional boundaries and confidentiality.
Strong ability to utilise computer skills, particularly those related to effective note keeping, communication with others and running of appointments.
Pre-employment checks:
Requirement to pass a Qualifications Validation Check.
Requirement to pass a Criminal and Traffic Convictions (Security) Check performed by the Ministry of Justice.
A safety check in accordance with the Vulnerable Children Act 2014 is required.
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