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Student Mental Health and Counseling Services (SMHC) Clinical Training Program Director
  • Job Number: 23982
  • Functional Area: Health Care
  • Department: MIT Health
  • School Area: Executive Vice President
  • Employment Type: Full-Time
  • Employment Category: Exempt
  • Visa Sponsorship Available: No
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Job Description

CLINICAL TRAINING PROGRAM DIRECTOR, STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH AND COUNSELING SERVICES (SMHC), MIT Health-Mental Health and Counseling (MH&C) Services, to serve as a member of the leadership team of MH&C Services, with responsibility for coordinating the Psychology Trainee (predoctoral and postdoctoral) Program.  Will provide direct clinical services to MIT’s undergraduate and graduate student population, including urgent care and crisis intervention, psychological evaluations, time-limited individual and group psychotherapeutic treatment, on-call services, campus liaison, outreach, mental health education, and community referral services.  Will also provide administrative and clinical oversight to the psychology predoctoral and postdoctoral trainee program; advertise, recruit, retain, mentor, and regularly evaluate the trainees; create a program where weekly supervision is provided for the trainees in dyadic, group, and seminar formats; and recruit and engage staff members at SMHC to provide supervision, mentorship, and seminar instruction for the trainees. 

A detailed position description is available at https://medical.mit.edu/jobs.  

Job Requirements
 REQUIRED: doctorate in clinical or counseling psychology from an American Psychological Association (APA)-approved doctoral program; completion of APA-approved clinical internship or its equivalent; Massachusetts licensure or license eligible; at least five years of supervised clinical internship/fellowships; advanced-level understanding of the full range of developmental and mental health challenges affecting late adolescents and young adults; and expertise in collegiate mental health trends, standards, assessments, accrediting bodies, and best practices (e.g., CCMH, CCAPS, IACS, etc.).  Job #23982-10

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