School-Based Clinician

Responsibilities

• Deliver age-relevant program activities and direct services, outreach, and paperwork for billing and clinical purposes.
• Safeguard facilitation of professional development workshops.
• May clinically supervise assigned MSW and other graduate level interns, if certified.

Requirements

• Caseload management, including maintaining attendance and educational progress.
• Provide individual and group counseling to students on a weekly basis.
• Support and co-facilitate classroom sessions – Advisory, Side by Side, and/or SEL curriculum.
• Plan and facilitate milieu services in common spaces, such as classroom, cafeteria, and afterschool push-ins, arrival and dismissal.
• Serve as a Success Mentor, and provide attendance supports and interventions for students struggling with attendance.
• Complete weekly Success Mentoring logs.
• Facilitate communication between students, families, and school staff.
• Participate in school teams, such as Attendance, Counseling, and others, as identified by Site Manager.
• Outreach to students and their families, including phone calls, written correspondence, and home visits.
• Provide crisis counseling, conflict mediation, and social-emotional support.
• Complete screenings, assessments, treatment plans, progress notes, and provide referrals.
• Timely completion of required documentation for clinical and billing purposes (EMR Dr. Cloud).
• Attend staff meetings and staff development opportunities.
• Collaborate on transdisciplinary team of Wediko and school staff to create individualized plans to support student progress.
• Support the facilitation of professional development workshops for school staff.
• Cultivate and maintain effective relationships with school staff and other school-based partners.
• Represent Wediko in the field via participation or presentations at panels, conferences, meetings, etc.
• Support the implementation of the Community School Model.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in mental health/counseling (e.g., MSW, M.S. Ed in Counseling, MFT, etc.).
• Licensed professional strongly preferred.
• Clinical supervision and client contact hours towards independent licensure.
• One plus years’ experience working within programs serving youth and families preferred.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to approach challenges in a supportive and creative manner.
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills.
• Flexible schedule and willingness to work school hours as well as some weekends/evenings in support of school events.
• Bilingual Spanish preferred.