Summary of Position:
Milton Academy is seeking a full-time counselor for an opening in the Upper School Health and Counseling Center starting in August 2024.
Candidates must be willing to live on campus as part of our on-call requirements.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Provide individual therapy to students: a combination of short and long term evidenced-based modalities.
- Provide culturally appropriate, consultative, clinical, and outreach services grounded in multicultural anti-racist frameworks and treatment modalities.
- Participate in a regular on-call schedule as part of our team of four clinicians: generally, one night a week, and about one weekend a month.
- Provide thorough safety assessments and accompany students who potentially need hospitalization to Boston Children’s Hospital Emergency Room
- Collaborate with the counseling team, health care providers, parents, administrators, faculty, dorm staff, and off-campus providers.
- Communicate closely with Academic Skills Center faculty in consultation and collaboration to support students who need counseling and academic support.
- Meet multiple times a week in group supervision with the Director of Counseling, counselors, and the consulting Psychiatrist.
- Serve as a dorm-affiliated counselor. The counselor will meet with two Dorm Heads on a regular basis in order to provide consultation in relation to supporting students in their respective dorms.
- Oversee specific student leadership programs (such as Peer Discussion Groups or Human Sexuality and Relationships).
