Job Locations US-NM-Albuquerque

ID

2026-13730

College

TUNY - College of Dental Medicine

Position Type

Part-Time

Schedule Shift

Varies

Hours Per Week

19

Travel

As needed

Category

Academic/Program Support

FLSA Status

Non-Exempt

Location : Country

US

The Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) at Touro College of Dental Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico, provides mental health and wellness support to promote student success. Reporting to the Executive Assistant Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor, the LCSW is responsible for conducting assessments, providing short-term psychotherapy and supportive counseling, facilitating group counseling, supporting high-risk students, and connecting students with community resources. This role also involves collaborating with students, faculty, staff, and administration to foster a supportive campus environment.

Clinical Hours & Counseling (75%):

• Deliver short term individual therapy and conduct a needs-based assessment, including triage, clinical consultation, coordinating treatment with other professionals, and providing community referrals when crisis intervention as needed or requested.
• Minimum of 4 clients per workday.
• Maintain case load and terminate as clinically indicated to prioritize urgent student needs.
• Facilitate support group(s) as needed.
• Provide culturally sensitive clinical services that address the unique needs of students from diverse backgrounds, and students with intersecting identities.
• Maintain strict adherence to FERPA and HIPAA guidelines and confidentiality practices.
• Participate in Wellness programming and activities.
• Other duties as assigned by the Associate Vice Chancellor, Associate Director and/or Executive Assistant Dean.

Administration (10%):

• Produce timely, empirically supported, and confidential record keeping in strict accordance with the departments' standards, policies, and procedures.
• Utilize an electronic health record for documentation and computer-based systems for administrative functions.
• Familiarity in utilizing HIPAA-compliant Zoom platform to ensure reliable virtual client care, and in being able to effectively coordinate clinical consultation with counseling team.
• Seek and utilize supervision for any and all clinical care.

Referrals (5%):

• Collaborate and refer to established community behavioral health partners.

Departmental Meetings and Wellness Activities (10%):

• Participate in weekly all-staff meetings.
• Report on students, and communicate outcomes, next steps and needs to: Initiate any follow up on needs identified at these meetings, including creating a written summary, updating internal documentation in EMR, and internal high-risk list.
• Follow-up required with all other internal and external providers involved in the client's care.
• Be available for other duties as assigned by the Associate Vice Chancellor of the Office of Student Mental Health and Wellness.
• Working collaboratively with diverse teams to support student mental health programming and services.
• Availability to participate in Wednesday Department meeting is required.

Education/Experience

• Doctorate or master's degree from an accredited program in Social Work required.
• Licensure as a Clinical Social Worker, in good standing in New Mexico.
• Maintain continuing education requirements applicable to licensure and credentialing.
• 5 years of clinical experience post licensure preferred.
• Experience with student population in an academic health center preferred.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Analytical skills necessary for collection and assessment of psychosocial data, interpretation of data and ongoing review of treatment efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ability to self-assess when in need of support and engage in active communication with counseling leadership when facing challenges, to adhere to professional boundaries and ethics, to seek supervision and remains within the scope of practice for social work.
• Ability to work independently and desire to be a team.
• Excellent oral communication skills (i.e., ability to deal effectively with others; speak professionally on the phone, etc.)
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience working with issues related to gender, culture, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, socio-economic status, etc. and skilled with techniques for counseling students from diverse backgrounds.
• Ability to preserve confidentiality of information.
• Ability to adhere to the NASW code of conduct, ethics and values for Social Work Professionals.
• Proficiency with virtual platforms, EMR, Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to learn and proficiently use Office EMR, Microsoft Office Suite.

Travel

• As needed

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