School Based Counselor (Flushing Queens)

Job Title: School-based Counselor at JHS 185 Flushing, Queens

Division: School-based Mental Health; Youth Development

Reports to: Senior Program Director, Gerda Gonzalez

FLSA: Exempt

Location: 147-26 25th Drive, Flushing, NY 11354

Summary: The School-based Counselor (SBA) is responsible for developing and facilitating the social, personal, and academic development of youth, adolescents, and teenagers via motivational interviewing and other selective individual and group counseling methods and frameworks. The SBA serves as a guide and mentor who assists youth with setting and achieving their individualized academic, personal, and vocational goals. Additionally, they assist in providing support to students and families identified to be in need regarding mental and emotional support via outreach, referral, and intake system management. Essential Functions:· Engage youth individually to build trusting relationships; develop skills; and set goals.· Implement selective individual and group counseling sessions utilizing motivational interviewing framework.· Facilitate internal referrals via psychoeducation of Wellness Center and services· Support overall Wellness Center intake systems including collecting client information.· Liaise between youth, families, schools, agencies, and other community partners to best support and advocate for youth including external referrals and services.· Support school community by providing education workshops as needed.· Implement incentive systems to increase and maintain attendance and connection to services.· Maintain required documentation of efforts and services into relevant data systems.· Performs other related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Minimum Qualifications:· Associate’s Degree or equivalent in human services, social work, or related field.· Understand youth popular culture trends and social media platforms· Ability to plan and carry out assignments independently.· Ability to prioritize, adhere to timelines and multi-task.

Qualifications Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in human services field such as social work, counseling, etc.· Experience working with youth in a counseling or case management setting.Job Behavioral Expectations:· Maintain regular consistent and professional attendance, punctuality, personal appearance, and adherence to relevant health & safety procedures.· Safe and successful performance, including meeting productivity standards.· Maintain an understanding of the principles, methods and processes needed to perform the job. Attends staff meetings, seminars and in-service training as assigned.· Demonstrates the ability to complete work in an acceptable manner by the time and/or date established with accuracy, neatness and thoroughness and minimal amount of errors.· Maintain established departmental policies and procedures including maintain strict confidentiality and adherence to all HIPAA guidelines at all times. Bilingual in Spanish, Mandarin, or Cantonese is a plus.

Compensation: $25/hour

Physical demands and work environment: The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to walk, sit for long period of time; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or control; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment:· Work may be performed in the field or a school environment with normal heating and cooling. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only job duties to be performed by the incumbent. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties requested by his or her supervisor.

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