Behavioral Health Service Clinical Specialist
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate.
We need to parse the posting.
Key info:
- Position Description Professional-Technical Level I 185 Calendar Days Hours: 8.0/ day Shift: TBD Location: Resource Center Salary/hourly rate: Step 1: $53.01 or Step 2: $54.10 (SC10 Prof Tech Salary Schedule 26-27) Benefits offered by Lake Washington School District can be found on the SEBB Website and per Prof Tech Handbook PRIORITY APPLICATION DATE: This position is open until filled with first consideration given to applications received by Friday September 25th.
- Summary paragraph: The Behavioral Health Service Clinical Specialist serves as a licensed behavioral health professional within the Special Services Department and plays a critical role in supporting the academic, behavioral, social-emotional, and mental health needs of students. This position provides direct individual and group counseling services, supports students with significant social, emotional, and behavioral needs, and collaborates with educators, families, and community providers to ensure coordinated, student-centered supports. The Behavioral Health Service Clinical Specialist partners with school teams to develop and implement comprehensive behavioral and mental health interventions, including Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs), Positive Behavior Support Plans (PBSPs), crisis response plans, and social-emotional learning supports. The Behavioral Health Specialist promotes culturally responsive, trauma-informed, and strengths-based practices that foster belonging, engagement, and positive outcomes for students across educational settings.
- Essential Job Functions: list of functions broken into subcategories: Direct Student Services, Consultation and Collaboration, Behavioral Assessment and Intervention Planning, Professional Learning and Capacity Building, Family and Community Engagement, Professional Responsibilities.
We need to output sections: maybe "About the role" (summary), "Responsibilities" (essential job functions), "Requirements" (experience & education), "Qualifications" (preferred qualifications), "Skills" maybe not present; we can omit if no specific content. "Benefits": we have mention: Benefits offered by Lake Washington School District can be found on the SEBB Website and per Prof Tech Handbook. That's a statement about benefits but not specific details. According to rule: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It does state that benefits can be found on SEBB website and per handbook. That's a statement about benefits but not specifics. Is that enough? The rule says: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state benefits exist and where to find them. That's stating them, albeit not details. I think we can include a Benefits section with that statement.
Pay: Salary/hourly rate: Step 1: $53.01 or Step 2: $54.10 (SC10 Prof Tech Salary Schedule 26-27). That's specific pay info. So we can include Pay section.
Schedule: Hours: 8.0/day Shift: TBD Location: Resource Center. Also 185 Calendar Days. That's schedule info (hours per day, shift TBD, location, calendar days). So we can include Schedule section.
We must not include placeholder like "TBD" as heading content? It's okay to include TBD as actual content.
We must not repeat job title as heading. So we will not include a heading for the position title.
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for prose.
We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail.
We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should drop the "Application Procedure" etc. Also drop "FINALISTS WILL BE CONTACTED FOR AN INTERVIEW", "Please review LWSD Human Resources Employment Policies", etc. Also drop "We are not able to sponsor employment at this time." etc. Also drop EEO statements. Also drop "LAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT IS A SMOKE-FREE WORKPLACE." etc.
We need to keep the summary, essential functions, experience & education, preferred qualifications, benefits, pay, schedule.
We need to decide sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (essential job functions), Requirements (education & licensure & experience), Qualifications (preferred qualifications), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Possibly Skills: we could combine some skills but not needed.
We must not create a section if no real specific content. We have content for each.
Now format.
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Let's craft.
First, About the role:
About the role
then with summary paragraph.
Second, Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
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Direct Student Services:
- Provide individual, group, and family-centered Behavioral Health Service Clinical Specialists to students whose emotional, behavioral, or mental health needs impact educational performance.
- Provide clinical services to assess and assist in identifying student strengths, needs, barriers, and risk factors affecting school success.
- Deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions that promote self-regulation, social-emotional development, resilience, and positive, pro-social coping skills.
- Support students experiencing behavioral, emotional, or mental health crises through assessment, intervention, de-escalation, and safety planning.
- Monitor and document student progress and adjust interventions based on data and outcomes.
Consultation and Collaboration:
- Collaborate with special education teams, building administrators, teachers, school psychologists, counselors, nurses, and related service providers to support student success.
- Consult with staff regarding behavioral health concerns and provide recommendations for evidence-based interventions and supports.
- Engage in and support collaboration across districtwide behavior programs
- Participate in Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings and contribute clinical expertise regarding behavioral health goals, services, and accommodations.
- Support school teams in developing effective behavior support systems for students with intensive behavioral or mental health needs.
- Serve as a liaison among schools, families, community agencies, healthcare providers, and behavioral health systems.
- Partner with Non-Public Agencies
Behavioral Assessment and Intervention Planning:
- Assist in conducting Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs), behavioral health assessments, and related evaluations.
- Support development, implementation, and monitoring of Positive Behavior Support Plans, Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIPs), and individualized behavioral health supports.
- Collect, analyze, and interpret behavioral and social-emotional data to inform problem solving and decisionmaking.
- Utilize data to evaluate intervention effectiveness and make recommendations for ongoing support.
Professional Learning and Capacity Building:
- Design and facilitate professional learning for staff, administrators, and teams regarding:
- Behavioral health and mental health awareness
- Trauma-informed practices
- Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
- Social-emotional learning
- Restorative practices
- Provide coaching and consultation to increase staff confidence and effectiveness in supporting students with behavioral and social-emotional needs.
- Build school-based capacity to implement evidence-based behavioral health supports with fidelity.
Family and Community Engagement:
- Conduct family outreach and engagement activities.
- Support families in accessing community behavioral health, social service, and wraparound resources.
- Facilitate coordination of care among families, schools, healthcare providers, and community agencies.
- Foster collaborative partnerships that support student well-being across home, school, and community settings.
Professional Responsibilities:
- Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential records in accordance with district, state, and federal requirements.
- Prepare reports and documentation required by the district and state.
- Contribute written feedback about student progress for inclusion in annual IEPs for students
- Stay current with research, best practices, legal requirements, and emerging trends in behavioral health and special education.
- Attend meetings, trainings, conferences, and professional development activities as required.
- Travel between district sites and attend occasional evening meetings as needed.
- Perform related duties as assigned.
We need to keep all that.
Now Requirements: Education, Licensure, Experience.
Education: Master's degree in one of the following: Mental Health Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, School Psychology, Behavioral Health, Or a closely related field.
Licensure: Current Washington State licensure as one of the following: Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), Licensed Psychologist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Other qualifying behavioral health credentials recognized by Washington State. Associate-level licenses may be considered depending on experience and supervision requirements.
Experience: Experience providing behavioral health or mental health services to children, adolescents, and families. Experience working within educational settings preferred. Experience participating in multidisciplinary team processes, including IEP teams, preferred. Experience with behavioral assessment, crisis intervention, and implementation of evidence-based behavioral supports preferred.
We can format as
- each.
Now Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications): list:
- Training or certification in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Training or certification in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) training
- Motivational Interviewing and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy training
- Trauma-informed care training
- Experience implementing MTSS and PBIS frameworks
- Experience supporting students with emotional and behavioral disabilities
- Experience facilitating adult professional learning
Now Benefits: "Benefits offered by Lake Washington School District can be found on the SEBB Website and per Prof Tech Handbook". We'll put that in a
.
Pay: "Salary/hourly rate: Step 1: $53.01 or Step 2: $54.10 (SC10 Prof Tech Salary Schedule 26-27)". We'll put in
.
Schedule: "Hours: 8.0/ day Shift: TBD Location: Resource Center 185 Calendar Days". Also maybe include "Priority Application Date: This position is open until filled with first consideration given to applications received by Friday September 25th." That's schedule-related? It's application deadline. Could be considered schedule? Might be considered as part of posting but not schedule. The rule says only create Schedule section if posting actually states them. It does state hours, shift, location, calendar days. The priority date is not schedule but maybe we could include in a separate section? Not required. We could include it in a
under Schedule or maybe as a separate section "Application Timeline"? But we should not create extra sections unless needed. We could include the priority date in the Schedule section as additional info. Or we could drop it as it's not strictly schedule but it's a date. The rule says: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does not forbid including other info inside those sections. So we can include the priority date in the Schedule section as extra.
Thus Schedule section:
Schedule
Hours: 8.0/day; Shift: TBD; Location: Resource Center; 185 Calendar Days; Priority application date: open until filled with first consideration given to applications received by Friday September 25th.
Now we need to ensure we don't duplicate lines. Also remove any boilerplate like "Position Description Professional-Technical Level I 185 Calendar Days Hours: 8.0/ day Shift: TBD Location: Resource Center Salary/hourly rate: Step 1: $53.01 or Step
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should drop the "Application Procedure" etc. Also drop "FINALISTS WILL BE CONTACTED FOR AN INTERVIEW", "Please review LWSD Human Resources Employment Policies", etc. Also drop "We are not able to sponsor employment at this time." etc. Also drop EEO statements. Also drop "LAKE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT IS A SMOKE-FREE WORKPLACE." etc. We need to keep the summary, essential functions, experience & education, preferred qualifications, benefits, pay, schedule. We need to decide sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (essential job functions), Requirements (education & licensure & experience), Qualifications (preferred qualifications), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Possibly Skills: we could combine some skills but not needed. We must not create a section if no real specific content. We have content for each. Now format. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Let's craft. First, About the role:
About the role
thenwith summary paragraph. Second, Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
then maybe we can break into subheadings? But onlyallowed for section headings; we could still use
? Not specified; only
for section headings. We could use
for prose and
- for lists. The essential functions have categories; we could make each category a
- with sub-items? Might be okay to just list each bullet as
- . We'll need to preserve all detail.
Let's extract each bullet.
Direct Student Services:
- Provide individual, group, and family-centered Behavioral Health Service Clinical Specialists to students whose emotional, behavioral, or mental health needs impact educational performance.
- Provide clinical services to assess and assist in identifying student strengths, needs, barriers, and risk factors affecting school success.
- Deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions that promote self-regulation, social-emotional development, resilience, and positive, pro-social coping skills.
- Support students experiencing behavioral, emotional, or mental health crises through assessment, intervention, de-escalation, and safety planning.
- Monitor and document student progress and adjust interventions based on data and outcomes.
Consultation and Collaboration:
- Collaborate with special education teams, building administrators, teachers, school psychologists, counselors, nurses, and related service providers to support student success.
- Consult with staff regarding behavioral health concerns and provide recommendations for evidence-based interventions and supports.
- Engage in and support collaboration across districtwide behavior programs
- Participate in Individualized Education Program (IEP) meetings and contribute clinical expertise regarding behavioral health goals, services, and accommodations.
- Support school teams in developing effective behavior support systems for students with intensive behavioral or mental health needs.
- Serve as a liaison among schools, families, community agencies, healthcare providers, and behavioral health systems.
- Partner with Non-Public Agencies
Behavioral Assessment and Intervention Planning:
- Assist in conducting Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs), behavioral health assessments, and related evaluations.
- Support development, implementation, and monitoring of Positive Behavior Support Plans, Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIPs), and individualized behavioral health supports.
- Collect, analyze, and interpret behavioral and social-emotional data to inform problem solving and decisionmaking.
- Utilize data to evaluate intervention effectiveness and make recommendations for ongoing support.
Professional Learning and Capacity Building:
- Design and facilitate professional learning for staff, administrators, and teams regarding:
- Behavioral health and mental health awareness
- Trauma-informed practices
- Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
- Social-emotional learning
- Restorative practices
- Provide coaching and consultation to increase staff confidence and effectiveness in supporting students with behavioral and social-emotional needs.
- Build school-based capacity to implement evidence-based behavioral health supports with fidelity.
Family and Community Engagement:
- Conduct family outreach and engagement activities.
- Support families in accessing community behavioral health, social service, and wraparound resources.
- Facilitate coordination of care among families, schools, healthcare providers, and community agencies.
- Foster collaborative partnerships that support student well-being across home, school, and community settings.
Professional Responsibilities:
- Maintain accurate, timely, and confidential records in accordance with district, state, and federal requirements.
- Prepare reports and documentation required by the district and state.
- Contribute written feedback about student progress for inclusion in annual IEPs for students
- Stay current with research, best practices, legal requirements, and emerging trends in behavioral health and special education.
- Attend meetings, trainings, conferences, and professional development activities as required.
- Travel between district sites and attend occasional evening meetings as needed.
- Perform related duties as assigned.
We need to keep all that.
Now Requirements: Education, Licensure, Experience.
Education: Master's degree in one of the following: Mental Health Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, School Psychology, Behavioral Health, Or a closely related field.
Licensure: Current Washington State licensure as one of the following: Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW), Licensed Psychologist, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Other qualifying behavioral health credentials recognized by Washington State. Associate-level licenses may be considered depending on experience and supervision requirements.
Experience: Experience providing behavioral health or mental health services to children, adolescents, and families. Experience working within educational settings preferred. Experience participating in multidisciplinary team processes, including IEP teams, preferred. Experience with behavioral assessment, crisis intervention, and implementation of evidence-based behavioral supports preferred.
We can format as
- each.
Now Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications): list:
- Training or certification in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Training or certification in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) training
- Motivational Interviewing and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy training
- Trauma-informed care training
- Experience implementing MTSS and PBIS frameworks
- Experience supporting students with emotional and behavioral disabilities
- Experience facilitating adult professional learning
Now Benefits: "Benefits offered by Lake Washington School District can be found on the SEBB Website and per Prof Tech Handbook". We'll put that in a
. Pay: "Salary/hourly rate: Step 1: $53.01 or Step 2: $54.10 (SC10 Prof Tech Salary Schedule 26-27)". We'll put in
. Schedule: "Hours: 8.0/ day Shift: TBD Location: Resource Center 185 Calendar Days". Also maybe include "Priority Application Date: This position is open until filled with first consideration given to applications received by Friday September 25th." That's schedule-related? It's application deadline. Could be considered schedule? Might be considered as part of posting but not schedule. The rule says only create Schedule section if posting actually states them. It does state hours, shift, location, calendar days. The priority date is not schedule but maybe we could include in a separate section? Not required. We could include it in a
under Schedule or maybe as a separate section "Application Timeline"? But we should not create extra sections unless needed. We could include the priority date in the Schedule section as additional info. Or we could drop it as it's not strictly schedule but it's a date. The rule says: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does not forbid including other info inside those sections. So we can include the priority date in the Schedule section as extra. Thus Schedule section:
Schedule
Hours: 8.0/day; Shift: TBD; Location: Resource Center; 185 Calendar Days; Priority application date: open until filled with first consideration given to applications received by Friday September 25th.
Now we need to ensure we don't duplicate lines. Also remove any boilerplate like "Position Description Professional-Technical Level I 185 Calendar Days Hours: 8.0/ day Shift: TBD Location: Resource Center Salary/hourly rate: Step 1: $53.01 or Step
- each.
Now Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications): list:
- Training or certification in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Training or certification in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) training
- Motivational Interviewing and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy training
- Trauma-informed care training
- Experience implementing MTSS and PBIS frameworks
- Experience supporting students with emotional and behavioral disabilities
- Experience facilitating adult professional learning
Now Benefits: "Benefits offered by Lake Washington School District can be found on the SEBB Website and per Prof Tech Handbook". We'll put that in a
- for lists. The essential functions have categories; we could make each category a