Green Acres School is seeking an experienced full-time counselor to work with students in Pre-K-8th grade. The school counselor provides counseling services to individuals and groups of students in a safe and welcoming environment. The person in this position acts as a consultant to parents, teachers, and administrators. Some of the duties and support services that the counselor is responsible for include:

• Building relationships with students, families, and colleagues throughout the school community;
• Providing short-term individual and group counseling for students with social-emotional challenges, whether or not those challenges are clinically diagnosed;
• Providing behavior management assistance and crisis intervention when necessary;
• Communicating with families about their children, both sharing accounts from school and listening to accounts from home;
• Developing and maintaining a referral list of therapists and local resources for students who may need an assessment and/or long-term therapeutic support;
• Communicating with therapists and other outside professionals about students;
• Coordinating the gathering, editing, and sending of documentary evidence for social-emotional testing on behalf of outside professionals;
• Actively participating in the Student Support Committee meetings;
• Problem solving with teachers, parents, and outside professionals to develop appropriate supports for students with social-emotional challenges;
• Developing and coordinating student learning plans with teachers;
• Participating in parent-teacher conferences, as needed.