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Counseling Services Associate Director

Job Group: Health and Wellness Services
Job Subgroup: Health Services Administration
Salary Range (Annual): 28: $97,600-199,320
Employee Category: Academic Staff
Job Code: HS098
  • Job Summary:
    Oversees and manages personnel, operations, policy, logistics, and strategic planning. Serves as the primary liaison from Counseling Services to the college and surrounding community. Provides direct counseling and education services to students and consultation to students, faculty, and staff. Ensures staff and programs work collaboratively and effectively with other areas of the college.
  • Job Responsibilities:
    • Assists in executive decision making as a member of the leadership team of counseling services
    • Functions as the day-to-day contact person in the Director's absence which may involve responding to life-threatening crises and providing direction to staff and students
    • Provides mental health services including diagnostic evaluations, assessments of suicide/homicide or other danger to the community, referrals and monitoring of medications, decisions regarding hospitalization or withdrawal from school, and ongoing treatment; and advises families
    • Manages psychological emergencies and crises for individual patients and the community at large
    • Functions as administrator of the counseling services and provides oversight of training efforts
    • Establishes on-going staff development activities
    • Manages administrative and medical records
    • May manage the unit budget
    • Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
  • Education:
    Master's Degree Preferred Minimum
  • FLSA Status:
    Exempt
  • Institution Job:
    No
  • Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees:
    Yes
  • Employee Category:
    Academic Staff
  • Scaled Job:
    No
  • Salary Range (Annual):
    28: $97,600-199,320
  • Job Code:
    HS098: Counseling Services Associate Director
  • Link directly to this job title: https://hr.wisc.edu/standard-job-descriptions/?q=HS098

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