Duties and Responsibilities

Proactive work with students, staff, and families 

• Assists teachers in understanding their students, including providing and interpreting student data and supports other school staff in implementing school wide advisory programs.
• Identifies, creates, and assesses services to address at-risk students' needs
• Providing consultation to school staff and parents to facilitate student educational, social, and emotional growth.
• Serve as the main point of contact on student’s mental health, and social-emotional issues to teachers, administrators, families
• Obtaining information concerning the effects of the environment, including family, cultural, and economic disadvantages that may be adversely affecting student progress
• Works with the Restorative Intervention Specialist to provide resources for students experiencing housing insecurity and home relocation, and students being removed from the home

Program Development/ Program Planning 

• Designs, implements and evaluates processes and procedures for services to include student referrals, placement and continuous assessments
• Providing resources and building connections with community providers to provide referrals to the students and families

Advocacy 

• Works closely with teachers to offer guidance, facilitate communication, and advocate on how to best support students, family engagement and community-based referrals as needed to support the whole family. 
• Provides consultation, support and resolution on school-based issues through collaboration with parents/guardians, advocates or legal counsel and make appropriate referrals as warranted

Direct Service 

• Conducts frequent and ongoing individual, group and workshop sessions with students to address social/emotional needs and improve behaviors and interactions that impact school climate, school attendance and learning environments;
• Providing psycho-education 
• Completes assessments for students to determine additional needs for the students 
• Maintains accurate documentation and records

Special Education 

• Providing related services as prescribed by Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), including social skills, life skills, and transitional skills that can be transferred from school to community.
• Participate as a member of the IEP and academic 504 team, Instructional Support and Student Intervention Teams, and other school-based teams to develop interventions for promoting students' academic success.
• Working collaboratively within the classroom setting to implement student IEPs.

Perform other duties as assigned
 

Qualifications

• A License in Professional Counseling (LPC) Preferred
• Minimum of two years of experience working as a counselor in a school with students in grades 9 - 12
• Exchange and communicate information clearly and accurately  with parent, students and other health professionals
• Ability to make good judgments and quick decisions
• Maintain high degree of discretion and confidentiality, as necessary and appropriate
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred