School Counselor - School-Based Mental Health Focused
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate (cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions). Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
"The Black Horse Pike Regional School District has and anticipated opening for a School-Based Mental Health Focused Counselor at Timber Creek High School"
Qualifications: "Valid New Jersey Certificate for School Counselor and/or Student Assistance Coordinator Endorsement. Preferred to hold one or more of the following: LPC, LMFT, LCSW, LSW, LAC. At least 2 years' experience in working with children/youth in the mental health field. Experience in establishing long term, mutually beneficial partnerships with other service providers. Strong teamwork and leadership skills; ability to think critically, creatively and strategically to promote quality programming and growth. Ability to work effectively with students, staff, parents, outside agencies, and community groups."
JOB GOAL: "To provide mental health counseling and referrals while effectively working with culturally diverse students, parents, school administration, school counseling team and other stakeholders, referral sources, and community partners, care management organization (CMO), hospitals, Mobile Response, DCP&P."
REPORTS TO: "The Director of Counseling"
Performance Responsibilities: list of many bullet-like sentences.
EVALUATION: "In accordance with State Statute and Rule and Board of Education Policy based upon the list of Performance Responsibilities. Evaluated by the Director of Counseling and/or School/District Administration."
PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT: "Employment shall be for a ten-month period, and as per negotiated Agreement between the Black Horse Pike Education Association and the Board of Education, Board of Education Policy, Law, and past practices. Salary based on education and experience on the BHPEA Salary Guide - $60,500 - $102,350. This position includes the following: Health Benefits, Dental Benefits, EAP Services, Access to Wellness and Discount Programs"
We need sections: maybe About the role (job goal?), Responsibilities (performance responsibilities), Qualifications (certificates, experience, skills), Benefits (health, dental, EAP, wellness), Pay (salary range), Schedule (ten-month period). Also maybe "Reports to" could be part of About the role.
We must not create sections with filler. So we need to ensure each section has substantive content.
We need to avoid duplicating lines.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences.
Let's craft sections:
About the role
with prose: includes job goal and reporting line.
Responsibilities
with - list of duties.
Qualifications
with - list of qualifications.
Benefits
with - list.
Pay
with salary range.
Schedule
with ten-month period.
We must ensure we don't include placeholder like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Check each section content.
About the role: Should include job goal and reporting to. Could be prose: "The School-Based Mental Health Focused Counselor will provide mental health counseling and referrals while working with culturally diverse students, parents, school administration, counseling team, stakeholders, referral sources, community partners, care management organization (CMO), hospitals, Mobile Response, and DCP&P. The position reports to the Director of Counseling."
Responsibilities: list each bullet from performance responsibilities. Let's extract them:
- Deliver the school counseling core curriculum that proactively enhances awareness of mental health; promotes positive, healthy behaviors; and seeks to remove the stigma associated with mental health issues.
- Provide responsive services including internal and external referral procedures, short-term counseling or crisis intervention focused on mental health or situational (e.g. grief, difficult transitions) concerns with the intent of helping the student return to the classroom and removing barriers to learning.
- Recognize warning signs: changes in school performance (changes in grades, attendance), mood changes, complaining of illness before school, increased disciplinary problems at school, experiencing problems at home or family situation (stress, trauma, divorce, substance abuse, exposure to poverty conditions domestic violence), communication from teachers about problems at school, and dealing with existing mental health concerns.
- Provide school-based prevention and universal interventions and targeted interventions for students with mental health and behavioral health concerns.
- Provide students with individual planning addressing their academic, career and social/emotional (including mental health) needs.
- Educate teachers, administrators, parents/guardians, and community stakeholders about the mental health concerns of students, including recognition of the role environmental factors have in causing or exacerbating mental health issues and provide resources and information.
- Advocate, collaborate and coordinate with school and community stakeholders to ensure that students and their families have access to mental health services.
- Recognize and address barriers to access mental health services and the associated stigma, including cultural and linguistic impediments.
- Adhere to appropriate guidelines regarding confidentiality, the distinction between public and private information and consultation.
- Direct students and parents to school and/or community resources for additional assistance through referrals that treat mental health issues (suicidal ideation, violence, abuse and depression).
- Assist with HIB investigations and programming to prevent HIB behaviors.
- Attend required trainings regarding Anti-bullying law and other state mandates that impact students and their mental health.
- Help identify and address students' mental health issues while working within the ASCA's Ethical Standards; Competencies for School Counselors; and national, state and local legislation (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), which guide school counselors' informed decision-making and standardize professional practice to protect both the student and school counselor.
- Seek to continually update their professional knowledge regarding the students' social/emotional needs.
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Qualifications: list:
- Valid New Jersey Certificate for School Counselor and/or Student Assistance Coordinator Endorsement.
- Preferred to hold one or more of the following: LPC, LMFT, LCSW, LSW, LAC.
- At least 2 years' experience in working with children/youth in the mental health field.
- Experience in establishing long term, mutually beneficial partnerships with other service providers.
- Strong teamwork and leadership skills; ability to think critically, creatively and strategically to promote quality programming and growth.
- Ability to work effectively with students, staff, parents, outside agencies, and community groups.
Benefits: list:
- Health Benefits
- Dental Benefits
- EAP Services
- Access to Wellness and Discount Programs
Pay: salary range $60,500 - $102,350 (based on education and experience on BHPEA Salary Guide). Could phrase: "Salary range: $60,500 – $102,350, based on education and experience per the BHPEA Salary Guide."
Schedule: ten-month period per negotiated agreement. Could phrase: "Employment period: ten months per the negotiated agreement between the Black Horse Pike Education Association and the Board of Education."
We need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like evaluation, etc. The evaluation section is not required but could be omitted if not a standard heading? The instruction: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Evaluation is substantive but not one of the prescribed headings? The allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Evaluation is not in that list, so we should not create a section for it. We could incorporate evaluation info into Responsibilities or About? Probably better to omit as not required.
Similarly, PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT we used for Schedule. Salary for Pay.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Good.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's craft:
About the role
The School-Based Mental Health Focused Counselor will provide mental health counseling and referrals while working with culturally diverse students, parents, school administration, counseling team, stakeholders, referral sources, community partners, care management organization (CMO), hospitals, Mobile Response, and DCP&P. The position reports to the Director of Counseling.
Responsibilities
- Deliver the school counseling core curriculum that proactively enhances awareness of mental health; promotes positive, healthy behaviors; and seeks to remove the stigma associated with mental health issues.
- Provide responsive services including internal and external referral procedures, short-term counseling or crisis intervention focused on mental health or situational (e.g. grief, difficult transitions) concerns with the intent of helping the student return to the classroom and removing barriers to learning.
- Recognize warning signs: changes in school performance (changes in grades, attendance), mood changes, complaining of illness before school, increased disciplinary problems at school, experiencing problems at home or family situation (stress, trauma, divorce, substance abuse, exposure to poverty conditions domestic violence), communication from teachers about problems at school, and dealing with existing mental health concerns.
- Provide school-based prevention and universal interventions and targeted interventions for students with mental health and behavioral health concerns.
- Provide students with individual planning addressing their academic, career and social/emotional (including mental health) needs.
- Educate teachers, administrators, parents/guardians, and community stakeholders about the mental health concerns of students, including recognition of the role environmental factors have in causing or exacerbating mental health issues and provide resources and information.
- Advocate, collaborate and coordinate with school and community stakeholders to ensure that students and their families have access to mental health services.
- Recognize and address barriers to access mental health services and the associated stigma, including cultural and linguistic impediments.
- Adhere to appropriate guidelines regarding confidentiality, the distinction between public and private information and consultation.
- Direct students and parents to school and/or community resources for additional assistance through referrals that treat mental health issues (suicidal ideation, violence, abuse and depression).
- Assist with HIB investigations and programming to prevent HIB behaviors.
- Attend required trainings regarding Anti-bullying law and other state mandates that impact students and their mental health.
- Help identify and address students' mental health issues while working within the ASCA's Ethical Standards; Competencies for School Counselors; and national, state and local legislation (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), which guide school counselors' informed decision-making and standardize professional practice to protect both the student and school counselor.
- Seek to continually update their professional knowledge regarding the students' social/emotional needs.
Qualifications
- Valid New Jersey Certificate for School Counselor and/or Student Assistance Coordinator Endorsement.
- Preferred to hold one or more of the following: LPC, LMFT, LCSW, LSW, LAC.
- At least 2 years' experience in working with children/youth in the mental health field.
- Experience in establishing long term, mutually beneficial partnerships with other service providers.
- Strong teamwork and leadership skills; ability to think critically, creatively and strategically to promote quality programming and growth.
- Ability to work effectively with students, staff, parents,
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate (cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions). Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to parse the posting. Content: "The Black Horse Pike Regional School District has and anticipated opening for a School-Based Mental Health Focused Counselor at Timber Creek High School" Qualifications: "Valid New Jersey Certificate for School Counselor and/or Student Assistance Coordinator Endorsement. Preferred to hold one or more of the following: LPC, LMFT, LCSW, LSW, LAC. At least 2 years' experience in working with children/youth in the mental health field. Experience in establishing long term, mutually beneficial partnerships with other service providers. Strong teamwork and leadership skills; ability to think critically, creatively and strategically to promote quality programming and growth. Ability to work effectively with students, staff, parents, outside agencies, and community groups." JOB GOAL: "To provide mental health counseling and referrals while effectively working with culturally diverse students, parents, school administration, school counseling team and other stakeholders, referral sources, and community partners, care management organization (CMO), hospitals, Mobile Response, DCP&P." REPORTS TO: "The Director of Counseling" Performance Responsibilities: list of many bullet-like sentences. EVALUATION: "In accordance with State Statute and Rule and Board of Education Policy based upon the list of Performance Responsibilities. Evaluated by the Director of Counseling and/or School/District Administration." PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT: "Employment shall be for a ten-month period, and as per negotiated Agreement between the Black Horse Pike Education Association and the Board of Education, Board of Education Policy, Law, and past practices. Salary based on education and experience on the BHPEA Salary Guide - $60,500 - $102,350. This position includes the following: Health Benefits, Dental Benefits, EAP Services, Access to Wellness and Discount Programs" We need sections: maybe About the role (job goal?), Responsibilities (performance responsibilities), Qualifications (certificates, experience, skills), Benefits (health, dental, EAP, wellness), Pay (salary range), Schedule (ten-month period). Also maybe "Reports to" could be part of About the role. We must not create sections with filler. So we need to ensure each section has substantive content. We need to avoid duplicating lines. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. Let's craft sections:
About the role
with prose: includes job goal and reporting line.Responsibilities
with- list of duties.
Qualifications
with- list of qualifications.
Benefits
with- list.
Pay
withsalary range.
Schedule
withten-month period. We must ensure we don't include placeholder like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Check each section content. About the role: Should include job goal and reporting to. Could be prose: "The School-Based Mental Health Focused Counselor will provide mental health counseling and referrals while working with culturally diverse students, parents, school administration, counseling team, stakeholders, referral sources, community partners, care management organization (CMO), hospitals, Mobile Response, and DCP&P. The position reports to the Director of Counseling." Responsibilities: list each bullet from performance responsibilities. Let's extract them: - Deliver the school counseling core curriculum that proactively enhances awareness of mental health; promotes positive, healthy behaviors; and seeks to remove the stigma associated with mental health issues. - Provide responsive services including internal and external referral procedures, short-term counseling or crisis intervention focused on mental health or situational (e.g. grief, difficult transitions) concerns with the intent of helping the student return to the classroom and removing barriers to learning. - Recognize warning signs: changes in school performance (changes in grades, attendance), mood changes, complaining of illness before school, increased disciplinary problems at school, experiencing problems at home or family situation (stress, trauma, divorce, substance abuse, exposure to poverty conditions domestic violence), communication from teachers about problems at school, and dealing with existing mental health concerns. - Provide school-based prevention and universal interventions and targeted interventions for students with mental health and behavioral health concerns. - Provide students with individual planning addressing their academic, career and social/emotional (including mental health) needs. - Educate teachers, administrators, parents/guardians, and community stakeholders about the mental health concerns of students, including recognition of the role environmental factors have in causing or exacerbating mental health issues and provide resources and information. - Advocate, collaborate and coordinate with school and community stakeholders to ensure that students and their families have access to mental health services. - Recognize and address barriers to access mental health services and the associated stigma, including cultural and linguistic impediments. - Adhere to appropriate guidelines regarding confidentiality, the distinction between public and private information and consultation. - Direct students and parents to school and/or community resources for additional assistance through referrals that treat mental health issues (suicidal ideation, violence, abuse and depression). - Assist with HIB investigations and programming to prevent HIB behaviors. - Attend required trainings regarding Anti-bullying law and other state mandates that impact students and their mental health. - Help identify and address students' mental health issues while working within the ASCA's Ethical Standards; Competencies for School Counselors; and national, state and local legislation (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), which guide school counselors' informed decision-making and standardize professional practice to protect both the student and school counselor. - Seek to continually update their professional knowledge regarding the students' social/emotional needs. We can put each as
- .
Qualifications: list:
- Valid New Jersey Certificate for School Counselor and/or Student Assistance Coordinator Endorsement.
- Preferred to hold one or more of the following: LPC, LMFT, LCSW, LSW, LAC.
- At least 2 years' experience in working with children/youth in the mental health field.
- Experience in establishing long term, mutually beneficial partnerships with other service providers.
- Strong teamwork and leadership skills; ability to think critically, creatively and strategically to promote quality programming and growth.
- Ability to work effectively with students, staff, parents, outside agencies, and community groups.
Benefits: list:
- Health Benefits
- Dental Benefits
- EAP Services
- Access to Wellness and Discount Programs
Pay: salary range $60,500 - $102,350 (based on education and experience on BHPEA Salary Guide). Could phrase: "Salary range: $60,500 – $102,350, based on education and experience per the BHPEA Salary Guide."
Schedule: ten-month period per negotiated agreement. Could phrase: "Employment period: ten months per the negotiated agreement between the Black Horse Pike Education Association and the Board of Education."
We need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like evaluation, etc. The evaluation section is not required but could be omitted if not a standard heading? The instruction: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Evaluation is substantive but not one of the prescribed headings? The allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Evaluation is not in that list, so we should not create a section for it. We could incorporate evaluation info into Responsibilities or About? Probably better to omit as not required.
Similarly, PERIOD OF EMPLOYMENT we used for Schedule. Salary for Pay.
We must not repeat job title as heading. Good.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's craft:
About the role
The School-Based Mental Health Focused Counselor will provide mental health counseling and referrals while working with culturally diverse students, parents, school administration, counseling team, stakeholders, referral sources, community partners, care management organization (CMO), hospitals, Mobile Response, and DCP&P. The position reports to the Director of Counseling.
Responsibilities
- Deliver the school counseling core curriculum that proactively enhances awareness of mental health; promotes positive, healthy behaviors; and seeks to remove the stigma associated with mental health issues.
- Provide responsive services including internal and external referral procedures, short-term counseling or crisis intervention focused on mental health or situational (e.g. grief, difficult transitions) concerns with the intent of helping the student return to the classroom and removing barriers to learning.
- Recognize warning signs: changes in school performance (changes in grades, attendance), mood changes, complaining of illness before school, increased disciplinary problems at school, experiencing problems at home or family situation (stress, trauma, divorce, substance abuse, exposure to poverty conditions domestic violence), communication from teachers about problems at school, and dealing with existing mental health concerns.
- Provide school-based prevention and universal interventions and targeted interventions for students with mental health and behavioral health concerns.
- Provide students with individual planning addressing their academic, career and social/emotional (including mental health) needs.
- Educate teachers, administrators, parents/guardians, and community stakeholders about the mental health concerns of students, including recognition of the role environmental factors have in causing or exacerbating mental health issues and provide resources and information.
- Advocate, collaborate and coordinate with school and community stakeholders to ensure that students and their families have access to mental health services.
- Recognize and address barriers to access mental health services and the associated stigma, including cultural and linguistic impediments.
- Adhere to appropriate guidelines regarding confidentiality, the distinction between public and private information and consultation.
- Direct students and parents to school and/or community resources for additional assistance through referrals that treat mental health issues (suicidal ideation, violence, abuse and depression).
- Assist with HIB investigations and programming to prevent HIB behaviors.
- Attend required trainings regarding Anti-bullying law and other state mandates that impact students and their mental health.
- Help identify and address students' mental health issues while working within the ASCA's Ethical Standards; Competencies for School Counselors; and national, state and local legislation (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), which guide school counselors' informed decision-making and standardize professional practice to protect both the student and school counselor.
- Seek to continually update their professional knowledge regarding the students' social/emotional needs.
Qualifications
- Valid New Jersey Certificate for School Counselor and/or Student Assistance Coordinator Endorsement.
- Preferred to hold one or more of the following: LPC, LMFT, LCSW, LSW, LAC.
- At least 2 years' experience in working with children/youth in the mental health field.
- Experience in establishing long term, mutually beneficial partnerships with other service providers.
- Strong teamwork and leadership skills; ability to think critically, creatively and strategically to promote quality programming and growth.
- Ability to work effectively with students, staff, parents,
- list.
- list of qualifications.