- 29-Apr-2022 to Until Filled (CST)
- Murfreesboro, TN, USA
- Salary
- Full Time
Murfreesboro City Schools
Mental Health & Wellness Counselor
Department of Student Support Services
Revised on 05/04/2022
Job Description: The Murfreesboro City Schools Mental Health & Wellness Counselor serves as a member of the school-based student support team and provides mental/behavioral health support within a multi-tiered intervention framework. The Mental Health & Wellness Counselor collaborates with the school-based team to identify the mental/behavioral health needs of students and provide individual and small group mental health counseling and case management for students who do not respond to Tier I and/or Tier II behavioral supports, i.e., students who require more individualized and intensive mental health support to be successful in school.
Qualifications:
- Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), licensed Mental Health Provider (MHP), Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or significant progress towards achieving licensure as an LPC, MHP, or LCSW and a commitment to complete the licensure process.
- A minimum of 2 years' experience working with children with behavior and emotional issues is required.
- Experience working within a school setting is preferred.
Other Qualifications:
- Experience collaborating with parents, school, and community professionals.
- Demonstrate empathy for and understanding of the dynamics of families with students with behavioral and emotional issues.
- Respect and protect the confidentiality rights of parents and children.
Essential Job Functions:
The primary role of the Murfreesboro City Schools Mental Health & Wellness Counselor is to collaborate with school-based student support teams to identify the mental/behavioral health needs of students, provide direct mental health intervention, and coordinate care for those students referred by the support team. Specific job functions include, but are not limited to:
- Collaborate with the school-based student support team and use multiple data points to identify students who are at-risk for externalizing and internalizing behaviors and would benefit from small group intervention.
- Identify a targeted intervention goal for each small group.
- Provide goal-directed small group intervention for students who are identified as at-risk (Tier II).
- Collaborate with the school-based student support team to develop comprehensive behavior support plans.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of intervention for students and share outcomes with the support team.
- Collaborate with the school-based student support team to modify goals/intervention as needed.
- Communicate progress with caregivers and link families to available community-based resources.
- Collaborate with the school-based student support team and use multiple data points to identify students whose externalizing and internalizing behaviors indicate the need for more individualized and intensive intervention.
- Develop a treatment plan and identify clear goals for treatment.
- Provide goal-directed individual intervention for each student (Tier III).
- Collaborate with the school-based student support team to develop comprehensive behavior support plans.
- Provide case management services for students with complex needs.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of intervention for students and share outcomes with the support team.
- Collaborate with the school-based student support team to modify goals/intervention as needed.
- Communicate progress with caregivers and link families to available community resources.
- Provide training for principals, assistant principals, teachers and other staff regarding mental health, trauma, student wellness, staff wellness, de-escalation strategies, crisis prevention & intervention, etc.
Staff Relationship: Reports directly to the Coordinator of Behavior Support.
Terms of Employment: 10-11months, salary and benefits set annually. Exempt.
