Michigan State University
Location
East Lansing, MI | United States
Job description
The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at Michigan State University provides a wide range of mental health and supportive services for MSU employees and their dependents. We invite applicants for a full-time Counselor to join our growing team. We are a staff who strive to use multicultural and collaborative approaches to provide quality care. We believe diversity enriches the workplace and enhances personal growth, and we strongly value cultural humility, social justice, and accessibility.
Position Description
This is a generalist position that will provide short-term comprehensive psychotherapy services in-person and via telehealth for MSU employees (faculty, staff, graduate student employees, and retirees) and their benefits-eligible family members. The services provided by the counselor include but are not limited to: clinical assessment; short-term counseling (1 to 6 sessions) to individuals, couples, and/or families; case management; and referral services for clients that require services beyond those provided by the EAP. The counselor will plan and implement supportive group services, workshops, wellness classes, and/or other sessions to help targeted populations develop knowledge and skills to respond to or prevent emotional problems. The counselor will participate in staff meetings, multicultural seminars, peer review and clinical supervision, continuing education programs, and other organizational meetings. Moreover, the counselor will complete other duties as specified and assigned.
About the EAP
The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is a confidential short-term counseling and referral service provided at no cost to MSU faculty, staff, graduate assistants, retirees, and their insurance eligible dependents who are located within the state of Michigan. We provide emotional assistance and counseling support to all eligible individuals as they attempt to work through a wide range of clinical and personal issues, such as work-related stress, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, relationship challenges, family conflict, trauma, or grief and loss. We are dedicated to supporting and enhancing the emotional health of the entire MSU community. To learn more about the MSU EAP, please visit our website:
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability or protected veteran status.
This position is a hybrid position, some of the work can be done remotley but at least 3 days a week will require onsite work in East Lansing.
STANDARD 8-5
This is an off-dated position funded for one year from date of hire, with possible extension contingent upon funding renewal.
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MSU strives to provide a flexible work environment and this position has been designated as remote-friendly. Remote-friendly means some or all of the duties can be performed remotely as mutually agreed upon.
About Michigan State University
Spartans work every day to advance the common good in uncommon ways.Together, we tackle some of the world?s toughest problems to find solutions that make life better?from alternative energy to better food safety to breakthrough medical and environmental applications achieved through rare isotope research.We teach. We explore and we discover. We collaborate and lead. We innovate, inspire, and empower. We achieve our potential and create circumstances that help our students and others achieve theirs.We're good at it, and we've been at it for more than 150 years.The nation?s pioneer land-grant university, MSU began as a bold experiment that democratized higher education and helped bring science and innovation into everyday life. The revolutionary concept became a model for the nation.Today, MSU is one of the top research universities in the world?on one of the biggest, greenest campuses in the nation. Home to nationally ranked and recognized academic, residential college, and service-learning programs, we?re a diverse community of dedicated students and scholars, athletes and artists, scientists and leaders.In ways both practical and profound, we work to create a stronger, more sustainable, and more hopeful future for all.
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