Staff Counselor: Group Focus

The Staff Counselor: Groups Focus (40 hours/week) provides group and individual counseling services using a feminist relational framework, helps shape and support the Counseling program, and participates in a 45+ year old feminist collective. The Counseling program is looking for candidates who align closely with CWHC’s mission and who can join us in strategic imagining and planning for the future. While this position includes individual counseling, the focus for the role will be developing & co-facilitating our group offerings.

Primary Responsibilities: 

Clinical (50%): 

• Co-facilitate up to 3-4 groups per year while maintaining a caseload of weekly individual and/or relationship counseling clients.  
• Conduct psychosocial assessments with new individual and group clients.
• Conduct assessments and write letters of support for gender affirming surgeries. 
• Consult with other counselors and/or staff members as needed. 
• Consult with providers in other programs to facilitate integrative care.
• Support CWHC clinical services clients who are in crisis during a medical healthcare visit, as needed. 
• Provide weekly individual clinical supervision for one 2nd year master’s-level counseling intern, as needed. 

Program Development (25%):  

• Develop outreach and administrative infrastructure for group programs (in collaboration with Counseling Program Administrator). 
• Develop and adapt curricula for new groups.  
• Conduct and analyze ongoing needs assessments of CWHC Counseling clients to determine directions of programmatic growth. 

Administrative (25%):

• Maintain accurate, confidential, timely and HIPAA-compliant records. 
• Collaborate with Counseling staff on program management (program planning, budgeting, etc.), as needed. 
• Attend monthly CWHC Staff Committee meetings and Counseling Committee meetings. 
• Maintain current Illinois license and meet necessary CEU requirements. 
• Participate in the Collective process (outlined below). 

Collective Involvement:

• Join ad-hoc committees as needed (based on interest and/or specific skill set). 
• Review meeting minutes from all programs to stay informed about health center activities. 
• Provide feedback in the interest of improving health center services and culture. 
• Participate in annual budget approval process. 
• Support CWHC through events attendance and community networking. 
• Attend, participate in, and vote in Collective meetings (4 meetings per year). 

Qualifications:

• Possess an Illinois license or complete licensure application process within 2-4 months of start date: LSW, LPC, AMFT, LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, or other closely related clinical license.    
• Group and individual counseling experience (required). 
• Strong assessment, therapeutic, and crisis intervention skills.  
• Experience providing LGBTQIA+ affirming services. 
• Experience working with BIPOC communities.
• Experience working with trauma and violence. 
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred (not required).
• Program development and/or program evaluation experience preferred (not required).  
• Supervisory experience preferred (not required). 

Skills: 

• Commitment to a compassionate, collaborative, comprehensive approach to health care.  
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills. 
• Flexibility to work well independently and collaboratively. 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills. 
• Computer literacy in Word, Excel, and G Suite.
• Teletherapy and electronic health records experience is preferred (not required).

Work Environment:

The position will start as a remote teletherapy position with on-site staff meetings, and will transition to a hybrid remote and on-site position for client contact. The work environment is indoors in an open office. The clinic is subject to frequent interruptions and at times, irregular hours due to the variety of services offered. Occasional intrusions due to multiple calls and inquiries exist. As a health center, there are mechanical, electrical, chemical, and infectious material hazards in existence at the clinic, although the Staff Counselor will not have direct interactions with these materials. Safety for staff can be provided in the form of personal protective equipment and barrier precautions.  

The person in this position will be considered a full-time Collective member of CWHC. Benefits include health insurance (on the first day of the month following hire date, or immediately if starting on 1st of the month), generous paid time-off, supervision towards terminal licensure and a stipend for professional development opportunities.