Qualifications

• Doctorate or Masters in Counseling or Clinical Psychology or a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT)
• Experience assessing and treating children and adolescents.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Meets with students to determine reasons for low grades and provides appropriate intervention based on assessment.
• Communicates with parents regarding student challenges when student requires additional intervention.
• Completes miscellaneous research, reports and letters as requested and needed.
• Completes assigned reporting functions involving Child Protective Services.
• Provides recommendations regarding a student’s need for intervention, switching classes, academic and/or mental health needs.
• Works with teachers to support student academic needs.
• Works with the learning specialist to best support student needs.
• Manages missed work or adjusted schedules for students with extended absences or students with extenuating circumstances, such as students with concussions.
• Monitors, manages and responds to phone calls, emails and comments from teachers, parents and students, regarding academic and emotional concerns of students.
• Monitors, manages and responds to academic concerns.
• Counsels students experiencing academic, transitional, emotional and/or social difficulties.
• Communicates with student advisors, division head, dean of students, head of school and parents regarding student progress when necessary.
• Provides referrals to community resources for testing and long-term counseling.
• Facilitates mandated reporter training for faculty and staff as needed.
• Prepares letters notifying parents of student’s academic probation status.
• Meets with parents of assigned new students and provides new student support.
• Coordinates parent/teacher conferences for academic, transitional, emotional and/or social difficulties.
• Reviews, prints, assesses, and responds to parent and/or teacher emails referencing concerns. If needed, forwards to the appropriate Division Head.
• Informs and educates teachers about interventions required for accommodating students with learning differences.
• Arranges logistics for presentations to faculty, parents, and students each year, including a yearly presentation on depression and stress
• Assists with wellness program as needed.
• Provides college counselors, registrar, assistant head of school; academic affairs and division head with information about and proposed courses of action for students they are concerned about, whether concerns are academic, social, behavioral, or emotional in nature.
• Provides short term triage counseling to students in crisis.

Knowledge, Skill & Ability Requirements

• Understands child and family development.
• Understands child abuse reporting, basic counseling and record-keeping requirements for a licensed MFT or licensed Psychologist.
• Computer programs that support internal and external communications