Assistant Director of Assessment and Crisis

University of Colorado•Colorado Springs, CO

3d•$75,000 - $100,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is seeking an Assistant Director of Assessment and Crisis to join the Wellness Center Mental Health Services (WCMHS) team. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to academic excellence, professional development, and foster an environment of innovation and student success in the scenic setting of Colorado Springs. The position provides both clinical and non-clinical services, including clinical psychology and counseling for UCCS students whose personal or emotional lives interfere with their academic performance. The role involves developing and executing neuropsychological offerings, managing budgets for assessment services, expanding assessment tools, and partnering with the Director of Clinical Training and UCCS Disability Services. A key responsibility is developing and implementing a crisis/emergency plan, training staff, and responding to psychological crises. The position also involves data collection and analysis to inform service decisions, providing psychotherapy services, making referrals, and contributing to case consultations. Additionally, the role includes sharing the clinical supervision load for graduate students, interns, and fellows, attending staff and administrative meetings, and maintaining the WCMHS website and outreach materials. The goal is to support the developmental needs of the campus community through education and prevention programs.

Requirements

Must have experience with psychological, educational, and neuropsychological assessments (administration, report-writing and providing feedback to all relevant stakeholders)
Must have experience providing clinical assessment supervision for trainees;
Experience with risk assessment and crisis intervention strategies is required.
Experience in creating and implementing processes for an organization or team is required.
Must have experience with common psychological disorders (i.e. eating disorders, psychological trauma related disorders, substance abuse and dependence, mood and anxiety disorders, suicide and violence risks, psychotic disorders) and developmental and academic challenges of traditional, and nontraditional college students;
Must have experience with short-term psychotherapy modalities in individual, group, couple, and family therapy formats.
Experience with supervising graduate students who have various levels of education, training, and experience is required.
Must have experience with effective data collection and the ability to articulate the findings.
Must be able to create and deliver psychoeducational presentations that can speak to and address the students, faculty and staff on a college campus.
Active Colorado psychologist license or is eligible to obtain Colorado Psychologist license within 3 months of employment.
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree or Doctor of Psychology degree is required.

Nice To Haves

Experience in supervising employees.
Fluent in Spanish and can provide clinical services to UCCS students in Spanish.

Responsibilities

Directly responsible for development, and execution of our neuropsychological offerings at the WCMHS including the educational materials around all neuropsychological testing.
Change or adapt offerings as the need arises around neuropsychology.
Create an annual budget and manage both income and expenses for all assessment needs to operate all testing services.
Responsible for all testing online materials, equipment needed, and pen/paper assessments.
Expand assessment services and tools throughout all mental health services.
Partner with the WCMHS Director of Clinical Training (DCT) to provide training and supervision for trainees who participate in the testing services.
Partner with UCCS Disability Services team for testing services that impact accommodations for UCCS students and provide the most up to date education to the Disability Servies team.
Develop a crisis/emergency plan, train all staff/trainees on the process, and regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the plan and along with remaining up to date on most current research around college campus crisis/emergency needs.
Respond to psychological crises/emergency walk ins or calls to the WCMHS; be available to make assessments; and carry out crisis/emergency interventions; in addition to contribute to on-call duties of the WCMHS clinicians.
Develop and implement data collection strategies to keep track of various Mental Health Service data to help contribute to data collection of services provided by the WCMHS, analyze the collected data to be able to inform service decisions based on outcomes information, and assist with billing of non-Wellness Center units/agencies when needed.
Provide psychotherapy services in individual therapy, group therapy, couple therapy, and family therapy formats.
Whenever clinically necessary, make appropriate referrals to on- and off campus services and being available to contribute to case consultations with these agencies.
Whenever there are referrals (both general and mandatory) from other offices in the university for services (i.e. education/outreach, counseling, and evaluations), providing the required support service and/or assisting other clinicians in carrying out the request as needed.
Share the clinical supervision load of graduate students, predoctoral psychology interns and post-doctoral fellows from psychology, social work and counseling programs from both UCCS and other schools, with other clinicians.
Regularly participate in supervision consultation and training.
Attend all the staff meetings and administrative meetings that are related to position's responsibilities.
Maintain accurate information on the WCMHS website as well as take the lead on WCMHS materials used around campus.
Partake in the WCMHS staffs’ efforts to organize and coordinate campus-wide education and prevention programs and assist in efforts to address the developmental needs of the campus.