Graduate Student Practicum​/Internship

Description

Practicum/Internship: FIVE
18 Counseling

Reports To
:
Director of Clinical Training

FIVE
18 Counseling’s Clinical Training is a program designed to prioritize the clinician-in-training. Our goal is to provide training, experience, and supervision tailored to the individual to foster an environment that guides you directly toward your passions. We accomplish this by offering home-based, school-based, and outpatient-based training opportunities so you can identify what you’re best suited for. Additionally, we offer quality supervision with no time commitment required of you post-licensure, all at no cost to you!

Our supervisors receive specific training and meet together to ensure that they provide you with the best service possible. At FIVE
18 Counseling, we invest in you.

The purpose of this position is to provide counseling to children, adolescents, adults, and/or couples and families in an outpatient setting. As needed, opportunities to provide counseling in a public school-based setting may be available. If counseling services are provided in a public school-based setting, graduate students will be asked to be an advocate and resource to students, families, and staff and linking to other resources.

Requirements

• Partner with FIVE
  18 Counseling to fulfill the requirements of your academic institution

Reasonable Accommodations Statement To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Accuracy - Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
• Active Listening - Ability to actively and accurately attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
• Autonomy - Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Accountability - Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
• Client Oriented - Ability to take care of client’s needs while following company procedures.
• Collaborative - ability to identify problems and solutions with others, and work to achieve needed change with others.
• Communication, Oral and Written - Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word, and in writing clearly and concisely.
• Diversity Oriented - Ability to work effectively with people regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, job type, socio-economic status, or any other attribute.
• Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
• Diversity Oriented - Ability to work effectively with people regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or job type.
• Empathetic - Ability to appreciate and be sensitive to the feelings of others.
• Ethical - Ability to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
• Honesty / Integrity - Ability to be truthful and be seen as credible in the workplace.
• Interpersonal - Ability to get along well with a variety of personalities and individuals.
• Organized - Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
• Problem-Solving - Ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related problems.
• Relationship Building - Ability to effectively build relationships with clients, co-workers, and community partners.
• Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
• Self Motivated - Ability to be confidently, and internally inspired to perform a task to the best of one's ability using his or her own drive or initiative.

DELIVERABLES
:

The Graduate Student will provide professional mental health counseling with clients as assigned in order to meet the requirements of their academic institution, meeting regularly with the approved supervisor. The Graduate Student will maintain all necessary records required by the Virginia Board of Counseling and/or their respective academic institution.

POSITION QUALIFICATIONS

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Knowledge of:

• Human behavior and performance; individual…