Job Description
General responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
Provide direct services to the school community, including:
- Providing regular one-on-one counseling or group counseling to students and families;
- Providing crisis intervention as needed;
- Managing, tracking, and documenting student interactions and counseling schedule;
- Setting goals with students and tracking progress towards those goals;
- Working directly with students to help them successfully work towards high school graduation, college matriculation and self-sufficiency;
- Collaborating and communicating daily with supervisors, colleagues, and teachers to meet students’ needs.
Manage aspects of referral process for social services, partnerships, and special education services, including:
- Provide support and documentation for all students with IEPs;
- Meet regularly with students who have mandated counseling on their IEPs;
- Conducting regular assessments of current and emerging student and family needs;
- Developing and maintaining partnerships with external agencies;
- Referring individuals and families to external resources and services and when necessary referring cases of suspected child abuse to the State Central Registry.
- Monitoring and facilitating the delivery of external resources and services;
- Administering records, documentation, and other compliance activities.
Design and coordinate student engagement, family engagement, and family education activities, including:
- Home visits for newly enrolled and current students, as appropriate;
- Workshops to educate families, staff, and/or students on specific issues;
- Support Principal, Deans, and teachers when discipline issues arise.
- Participate actively in department meetings, faculty meetings, and other meetings.
- Consult with the school’s Student Response Teams to develop comprehensive supports and interventions to students who are presenting challenging behaviors.
- Share responsibility for grade-level and school-wide activities, including chaperoning day and overnight trips.
- Provide recommendations to the staff and leadership team around approaches to working with struggling students.
- Implement and enhance the school’s systems and culture by discussing character education with students.
- Meet with parents (English and Spanish-speaking) regularly regarding student issues.
- Establish a professional rapport and strong relationship with students, staff, and families.
- Display the highest ethical and professional behavior and confidentiality when working with students, parents, and staff.
- Ensure a safe, positive environment in group and one-on-one counseling sessions.
- Commit to professional growth.