Reports to: Associate Chief, SMH&C
Position Overview:
The Trauma Services Coordinator serves as a content expert on sexual violence in collegiate populations. This role serves as a trauma specialist and coordinates trauma care within SMH&C and serves as a liaison to key campus programs and partners. The coordinator will also be tasked with developing and leading a multidisciplinary team of clinicians who will develop and hone expertise in treating the emotional and psychological needs of students who are involved in or directly affected by incidents that are of a traumatic nature. Under the Trauma Services Coordinator’s leadership, the team offers individual and group work that is holistic, culturally responsive, and empirically based.
Coordinator responsibilities would include leading team meetings, implementing a culturally responsive empirically based clinical care model, collaborating with other campus partners (i.e. IDHR, MIT Police) involved in critical incidents to manage care for individuals or groups, and coordination and implementation of trauma support groups and educational workshops and community building retreats. Types of traumas treated would include but not be limited to interpersonal trauma, sexual assault, racial trauma, and community violence. In the case of community violence, the team could provide aftercare service (postvention) or outreach for those individuals or groups affected by a traumatic incident who request it and would benefit.
The Trauma Services Coordinator offers clinical consultation to colleagues throughout Student Mental Health and Counseling Services and MIT Health as well as provides direct clinical services to students affected by sexual assault, intimate partner violence (IPV), stalking, childhood sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and/or other forms of significant trauma. This role provides expert individual and group counseling for students who are survivors of relationships and sexual violence. This clinician also provides diagnostic assessment, on-call crisis intervention and management, brief psychotherapy, risk assessments/mandated risk assessments, and long-term community counseling referrals to other members of the student-patient populations. The Trauma Services Coordinator also develops and delivers psycho-educational programs that address the psychological impact of IPV and sexual violence. The coordinator also participates in Institute-wide committees as well as collaborates and consults with administrators, faculty and students on initiatives/programs related to campus climate and a variety of campus issues. As such, this clinician provides expertise in sexual violence education, prevention, and response. The Trauma Specialist is well-versed in issues associated with the Clery Act, Title IX, and Campus SaVe Act and partners with the MIT’s Title IX, VPR and other related college offices on campus charged with coordinating sexual violence education, prevention, and response.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities*
Designs and maintains student-focused, data informed programming for collegiate students. By consulting and partnering with campus partners who are content experts on campus-wide initiatives, collaboratives with individuals and/or groups from across campus to develop appropriate programming and coordinate activities on campus with focus on undergraduate and graduate student populations.
Develops, recruits, screens, promotes, implements and evaluates trauma outreach and mental health promotion efforts / curriculum for a variety of group offerings, including prevention activities on campus, focusing on undergraduate and graduate student populations.
Coordinates and manages said trauma intervention and prevention programming provided by counseling service staff to the university community.
Continually conducts needs assessment via incoming requests, data obtained from various student surveys, and by partnering with key stakeholders to determine opportunities for educational program enhancements. Continually strives to achieve the goal of educating the community about resources for survivors and work to reduce stigma around being a survivor through the creation of a robust program which is benchmarked against other collegiate mental health programs and serves as a model to other Institutions.
Participate in national dialogue on best practices and standards in trauma treatment and prevention programming in university settings.
Provide individual and group counseling to survivors of sexual assault, sexual harassment, dating violence, intimate partner abuse, and stalking as well as student-patients presenting with general mental health concerns. Make appropriate treatment plan decisions as to the level of care needed, type and longevity of treatment, and whether treatment is best received on campus or in the community.
Clinical experience working on issues related to gender-based violence, as well as possessing a working knowledge of the full range of trauma-related counseling interventions appropriate for late adolescent and adult development.
Manage all aspect of client care, including consulting with concerned parties regarding student safety planning.
Collaborates on multi-disciplinary teams regarding clinical coordination/direct student care, policies and procedures, and campus-wide mental health promotion.
Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Required Education and Experience:
PhD, PsyD, LICSW, and advanced licensure by the Massachusetts Board of Registration.
Minimum 5 years related experience in a college counseling center or a multidisciplinary outpatient mental health center required.
Past experience working with college-aged population, including clinical experience and knowledge of working with survivors of trauma required.
Experience and interest in multicultural counseling.
Strong counseling skills including a thorough knowledge of general theoretical orientation to guide clinical practice, as well as experience and skills working with survivors of trauma.
Strong crisis assessment and crisis management skills.
Knowledge of Title IX, Clery Act, and Campus SaVe Act requirements.
Understanding and interest in adolescent and early adult development.
Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and to collaborate with other departments and college administrators.
Knowledge of and demonstrated competence and sensitivity to working with multicultural population.
Demonstrated commitment to the highest ethical standards of professional practice and integrity.