Assistant Director of Training-Tulane University

Tulane University is seeking a Counseling & Psychiatric Services (CAPS) Assistant Director, Training to help lead a campus-wide commitment to student mental health and wellbeing.

In this impactful leadership role, you'll:
Provide direct clinical services to a diverse student population
Serve on the CAPS leadership team
Oversee and grow the doctoral internship training program
Lead clinical supervision, staff development, and continuing education
Collaborate across campus to advance a student-centered, inclusive mental health mission

Tulane CAPS is grounded in core values of student-centered care, belonging, integrity, excellence, and creativity, and operates within a nationally recognized AAU research university serving 13,500+ students.

Highlights

Comprehensive benefits & total rewards package
Work and live in the vibrant, iconic city of New Orleans
Opportunity to shape the next generation of mental health professionals

If you're passionate about clinical leadership, training, and equity-focused student mental health work, we encourage you to apply-even if you don't meet every qualification.

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Another Source's client, Tulane University, is recruiting a Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) Assistant Director, Training to join their team on-site in New Orleans, La.

Help Lead a Campus-Wide Mental Health Mission Tulane's Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) is committed to providing developmentally appropriate mental health services both in the office setting and as outreach, along with consultative support throughout Tulane University.

About the Department:

Tulane's Core Values

Student-centered - We are committed to a developmental model that recognizes, accepts and addresses the full spectrum of individual and collective life experiences and health needs of our students.

Belonging and Respect - We strive to create an environment where every student feels welcome, valued, and supporting, recognizing the unique perspectives and experiences that each person brings

Responsibility - We are conscientious stewards of money, time, patient information, and human and physical resources.

Excellence - We use best practices, regularly engage in quality improvement activities, and are committed to continuing education for all staff.

Integrity - We consistently live out our stated values.

Creativity - We encourage innovation, have a participatory environment, and collaborate at all levels.

https://campushealth.tulane.edu/about

About the Role: The Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) Assistant Director, Training is part of the Tulane University Campus Health team of committed professionals dedicated to supporting and promoting student health and wellbeing as a core institutional value through a multidisciplinary, comprehensive approach. This position resides within the Counseling Center, and reports to the CAPS Director. The individual in this position is responsible for delivering clinical services, participating in community engagement activities, and coordinating training and staff development.

As a member of the CAPS leadership team, the Assistant Director, Training provides student mental health services, including urgent walk-in assessments, consultations, individual psychotherapy, group therapy and workshops. The Training Director is part of the CAPS Leadership Team and is responsible for the administration and oversight of the internship training program. This includes recruiting, selecting, and orienting interns; planning and scheduling training experiences; coordinating services provided by external consultants and supervisors; managing communication and documentation with interns' doctoral training programs; providing clinical supervision; onboarding of new clinical staff; and coordinating and providing continuing education for licensed and unlicensed clinical staff.

Located in the unique and iconic city of New Orleans, Tulane is a highly regarded and selective independent research university, a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), and offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees in the liberal arts, science and engineering, architecture, business, law, social work, medicine, and public health. Tulane University Campus Health is fully accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) and serves as a student body of over 13,500.

Qualifications:

Required:

Doctorate in clinical or counseling psychology from an APA accredited program and completion of an APA approved internship by the date of hire.

• Licensed to practice psychology in the State of Louisiana. Must be licensed in Louisiana within 18 months of hire date.

• Outstanding oral and written communication skills, able to dialogue effectively with a wide range of students, faculty, and staff

Preferred:

• Previous experience delivering group interventions (interpersonal, support, skill-building).

• Experience working with university students in a university counseling setting.

• Training and experience working with substance abuse issues.

• Experience working with BIPOC students, students from all economic classes, first generation students, LGBTQ students, and international students.

• Demonstrated ability to handle spontaneous work demands while undertaking projects that require advanced planning.

• Doctorate in clinical or counseling psychology and licensed to practice psychology in the State of Louisiana or eligible by date of hire to obtain Louisiana licensure, including having previously passed the EPPP exam and completing postdoctoral clinical hours. Must be licensed in Louisiana within 18 months of hire date.

Tulane offers a comprehensive Total Rewards package:

https://hr.tulane.edu/benefits

Additional Information This position is considered ESSENTIAL - Level 2. This means that when there is an emergent situation at the university, you will be called upon to fill a critical role. This includes but is not limited to the university's response to hurricanes before, during and after the event, and other weather incidents. Your individual supervisor will discuss the nature of your specific responsibilities as they are able to do so. You should not assume that being in this category means that you must remain in New Orleans for every critical incident, but it does mean that you will have responsibilities during critical incidents.

Failure to comply with your duties as an essential employee as requested by your supervisor may result in disciplinary action as outlined in the Staff Handbook.

HIPAA STATEMENT: Employee provides services associated to the Tulane University Campus Health, its participating physicians and clinicians, which is a covered entity under the HIPAA rule. In the scope of performing functions, including but not limited to management, administrative, financial, legal and operational support services, I may have access to Protected Health Information (PHI), which is information, whether oral, written, electronic, visual, pictorial, physical, or any other form, that relates to an individual's past, present or future physical or mental health status, condition, treatment, service, products purchased, or provision of health care and which reveals the identity of the individual, whose health care is the subject of the information, or where there is reasonable basis to believe such information could be utilized to reveal the identity of that individual.

Another Source works with their clients, on a retained project basis. As you read through the job posting and review the list of qualifications (required and/or preferred), please do not self-select out if you feel you do not meet every qualification. No one is 100% qualified. We encourage you to apply and share your story with us.

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