学生心理咨询师

Department: Office of Students Affairs 1. To offer a standardized mental health assessment referred to collaboratively determine the most appropriate intervention, including whether an urgent response is required and where further support would best be offered. To manage the risks to self and others, when there may be no other mental health professional support available. 2. To provide a responsive, confidential and specialist counselling service to students and make clinical decisions by assessing all relevant factors with a range of difficulties including depression, anxiety, stress, exam panic, suicidal ideation, self-harm, transition issues, eating disorders, relationship issues, addictions, identity conflicts, bereavement and other difficulties and refer to external specialist services as and when necessary to support the individual needs. 3. To respond to emergencies and consultation requests from other members of the service regarding students who are experiencing mental health crises. 4. To provide front-line assessment, support and referral for students with acute and chronic serious mental health issues, including students at credible risk of suicide and harm to self or others, and to provide on-call crisis counseling and intervention support to students in need. 5. To provide psychoeducation about anxiety, depression, stress, emotional regulation, relationships, eating concerns, substance abuse, sexual assault and other topics of concern to the welfare of students. 6. To undertake group work and student workshops as appropriate, according to service need and specialist skills in this area, and to work autonomously, carrying and managing a caseload, where the nature of the work can be rapid and unpredictable, utilizing time limited evidenced based interventions for a wide range of mental health difficulties. 7. To advise students regarding reasonable adjustments to study arrangements. 任职要求: 1. Applicants should hold at least a bachelor’s degree in psychology, Counseling, Nursing, Counselor Education, Social Work, or Education. Course work and appropriate training should include individual and group counseling, crisis response, psychological assessment, abnormal psychology or psychopathology, standards of ethical practice and substance abuse prevention. They should have at least 3 years of counselling experience in universities. 2. Experiences in providing individual or group counseling, and in crisis counseling an intervention to include on-call response and emergency hospitalization procedures, and experience counseling special populations to include those who are at-risk for suicide and victims of sexual assault and substance abuse. Prior experience working in a university counseling center is expected. 3. They should be fluent in Chinese and English. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as group work and crisis intervention skills are required. 4. Irregular working hours and on call duties are required.