Student Support Advisor

About the Role

The Student Support Advisor (SSA) collaborates with school- and district-level leadership to provide holistic support to schools for cultivating a safe, healthy, welcoming, and affirming learning environment. The SSA focuses on reducing behavior incidents by building staff capacity to respond to student behaviors effectively through data-driven, multi-tiered systems of support. The role involves facilitating professional development, engaging evidenced-based practices, and supporting the development and implementation of comprehensive student support plans.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the chief point of contact for providing continued education and in-school intervention opportunities for students in the discipline process, collaborating with school-based staff on instructional and behavioral supports.
• Coordinates, facilitates, and documents all student support transition meetings.
• Serves as the chief point of contact for the development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and improvement of comprehensive student support plans.
• Coordinates school-based homebound and home-based instructional programs.
• Coordinates and facilitates Return to Learn meetings and related plans with students, parents/guardians, and appropriate school- and district-level staff.
• Consults with school teams to support the Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavioral Intervention Plan process.
• Serves as the school-based internal Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support (PBIS) coach in alignment with LCPS PBIS Coach Roles and Responsibilities.
• Serves as the chief point of contact for Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for staff, including problem-solving with school-based teams around student academic, social-emotional, and behavioral needs, managing documentation of student MTSS plans, and delivering professional development on best practices for student engagement.
• Collaborates with the School Improvement Team by providing analysis of discipline data.
• Collaborates with the Student Activities and Engagement Coordinator in coordinating remediation and credit recovery efforts, including scheduling students, tracking participation, ensuring course engagement, and monitoring program success.
• Tracks and addresses chronic student absenteeism and tardiness in collaboration with the Student Activities and Engagement Coordinator.
• Schedules and facilitates conferences with students regarding lack of classroom engagement due to chronic absenteeism, tardiness, office referrals, or other individualized factors.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• Successful full-time experience in teaching, school counseling, and/or mental health services.
• Eligibility for appropriate licensure; an active Licensed Professional Counseling (LPC) license issued by the Virginia Department of Health Professionals (DHP) may be considered in lieu of this requirement.

Skills

• Working knowledge of Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), including subject content, curriculum, differentiated methodologies, restorative practices, the conflict cycle, positive behavioral approaches, and evidence-based practices.
• Strong interpersonal, relationship-building, and cultural proficiency skills to establish and maintain positive collaborative relationships with staff, students, and parents.
• Skill in using multimedia and computer technology to enhance learning.
• Excellent human relations, oral, and written communication skills.
• Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional programs.
• Ability to analyze data to make informed decisions that improve instructional, social-emotional, and behavioral supports for students.

Physical Requirements

• Regularly talking, expressing, or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, including conveying detailed or important instructions accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Normal cognitive abilities, including the ability to learn, recall, and apply practices and policies.
• Frequently sitting and/or remaining in a stationary position for long periods.
• Exerting up to 25 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or move objects.

Schedule

10 months, 200 days, 7 hours per day.

Pay

Licensed Salary Scale: https://www.lcps.org/compensation