Training Director

Duke University:

Duke University was created in 1924 through an indenture of trust by James Buchanan Duke. Today, Duke is regarded as one of America’s leading research universities. Located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke is positioned in the heart of the Research Triangle, which is ranked annually as one of the best places in the country to work and live. Duke has more than 15,000 students who study and conduct research in its 10 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. With about 40,000 employees, Duke is the third largest private employer in North Carolina, and it now has international programs in more than 150 countries.

Positional Summary

CAPS provides an excellent quality of care to undergraduate, graduate and professional students. We are committed to demonstrating empathy and trust with students, one another, campus/community partners, and other stakeholders. As social justice motivates our work, all students will experience acceptance and compassion, and affirmation for their lived identities and life experiences.

Under the direction of the Clinical Director, the Senior Staff Psychologist (Training Director) will provide oversight for training program activities. The Senior Staff Psychologist maintains primary responsibility for creating, implementing, and providing leadership for an APA accredited doctoral psychology internship and master’s level social work and counseling internships.   Provides leadership for ongoing staff professional development activities. The Senior Staff Psychologist is responsible for the interns (4-6) and supervises the staff assistant assigned to them. The Senior Staff Psychologist leads the Training Committee.

Key Position Duties

Training Program Administration – (35%)

• Ensures that the training program fits within the overall scope and mission of CAPS, Student Affairs and Duke University;
• Provides leadership for training programs including mission, vision, policies, and procedures that align with CAPS mission;
• Establishes training policies and procedures consistent with CAPS policy, ethical guidelines, best practices, and applicable state and federal statutes;
• Ensures efficient, high-quality service and evaluation for the training program;
• Commits to educating the interns and the campus community on the ways privilege is perpetuated and differentially impacts student mental health;
• Administers training programs for doctoral psychology interns, social work and counseling interns, and psychology postdoctoral residents;
• Generates timely reports related to health service provider service hours, training program evaluations, supervisory evaluations, and data germane to federal training guidelines;
• Develops and updates training recruitment materials and training-related policy and procedure manuals;
• Directs the selection process of CAPS trainees, trainee orientation and evaluation, seminar development, supervisor selection, data analysis for training programs, and preparation of related reports for program development and evaluation;
• Compiles and writes site-visit reports that demonstrates compliance with APA accreditation standards;
• Represents and advocates for CAPS’ training programs at professional, state, and national organizations;
• Demonstrates comprehensive communication strategy skills that promote staff input, participation, and engagement in CAPS training activities;
• Works with other CAPS administrators to coordinate parallel activities involving trainees, including but not limited to clinical services and campus community engagement; and
• Provides leadership for the development of ongoing staff professional development activities.

Clinical services (40%)

• Provides individual, couples, and group services;
• Participates in the provision of mental health triage services;
• Administers and interprets limited assessment measures;
• Responds to campus crises;
• Provides consultation and emergency interventions as part of CAPS daytime response teams and after-hours on-call rotation;
• Provides supervision to assigned trainees including goal setting, evaluations, and disciplinary action in accordance with training policy and procedures;
• Commits to professional activities that are designed to promote the critical thinking skills related to individuals, environments, cultures, and systems and provide culturally responsive psychological interventions; and
• Provides campus engagement services through liaison relationships with faculty, staff, families, and students.

Administrative and other duties – (25%)

• Maintains complete, accurate, timely and confidential documents in an electronic health record;
• Completes clinical documentation according to CAPS policies and procedures;
• Attends CAPS staff, clinical team and committee meetings;
• Participates in Division of Student Affairs committees
• Attends CAPS sponsored professional development activities;
• As budget allows, represents CAPS on the Duke campus, in the Triangle area and nationally; and
• Performs other duties as assigned.

General Qualifications

• Must have a completed doctoral degree in the psychology field from an APA-accredited program;
• Currently licensed or immediately eligible for transfer of licensure within one year of hire in the state of North Carolina;
• A minimum of three years licensed experience in a clinical setting required;
• Previous experience with the provision of brief therapy services desired;
• Preference will be given to candidates with experience in university counseling centers and/or mental health agencies that serve college students; 
• Strong organizational team building, leadership and communication skills are necessary;
• The ideal candidate must be self-motivated and able to manage independent projects and collaborative teamwork; and
• Experience providing primary supervision to psychology interns

Strongly Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrates experience working with international communities such as individuals from Asian, South Asian, Latinx, and Middle Eastern/North African countries;
• Experience also working with members of the LGBTQIA communities as well as demonstrates experience and skills working with individuals from diverse spiritual/religious backgrounds; and
• Bilingual language skills are strongly preferred.

Additional Job-Specific Skills and Competencies

• Demonstrates experience and capability to work from a variety of theoretical approaches based on student need;
• Demonstrates experience and capability to work as part of a highly cohesive and interdisciplinary team in a university counseling center as well as an ability to collaborate across campus; and
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills that facilitate promotes students’ wellbeing and organizational health.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

Work requires a doctoral degree in Psychology from an accredited educational institution. Must be eligible for full licensure as a Practicing Psychologist as defined by the North Carolina State Board of Examiners of Practicing Psychologists.

Experience

Licensure requires a minimum of two years of appropriate supervised experience, as defined by the N.C. State Board, after the receipt of a doctoral degree. Alternatively, the Board accepts one year pre-doctoral and one year post-doctoral towards the supervision requirement. The appropriateness of education and experience of applicants for licensure is evaluated solely by the Board according to statutory provisions as outlined in the North Carolina Practicing Psychologist Licensing Act.

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