Sel Mental Health Clinician - Lexington, United States - Cotting School
Description
Cotting SchoolSEL Mental Health ClinicianThe SEL Mental Health Clinician at Cotting School has the primary role of supporting students, families, educators, and members of the community through an ecological framework, a trauma-informed lens, and a collaborative care model of practice.
Cotting School strives to provide students with an equitable and inclusive educational environment in which to learn and thrive, supporting self-determination in students ages 3 through 22 years old, with social-emotional learning embedded in its instructional programming.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The SEL Mental Health Clinician is committed to meeting the social-emotional needs of neurodivergent students with complex learning profiles through: Evidence-based direct service individual and group counseling when social-emotional challenges are preventing a student from fully accessing the programming opportunities in the school environment.
Group counseling can be provided independently or in conjunction with another discipline (i.e., SLP) to all classroom levels for whom this is appropriate based on service delivery needs and homogeneity of presenting challenges.
Establishing skill-based goals and objectives that are specific to the needs of each student or classroom and guided by CASELs five areas of social-emotional competence, namely self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.
For students on your counseling caseload, develop skill and strategy-based IEP goals based on student data; collect data for progress monitoring within counseling and in collaboration with the students collaborative care team, and participate in IEP meetings.
Engaging in relationship building with students and families/caregivers paired with ongoing consultation with educators, medical staff, and therapists, as well as outside providers.
Collaborates with faculty and staff to share relevant behavioral health information and develop appropriate supports for individual students as related to functioning within the academic, social, and vocational environments.
Identifies cross-classroom/student needs and develops/runs short-term groups to address those needs according to age and developmental needs (i.e.Social skills groups with students at various academic levels that prevent them from being in the same classroom, grief groups, medical trauma-based groups, specific topic or issue groups
Required skills and Abilities:
Coordinates with the Director of Family Services, Community Outreach Coordinator, and other stakeholders to support families as indicated and appropriate, in line with their scope of competence and educational programming of Cotting School.
Participates in weekly Support Team meetings and covers a percentage of on-call team shifts scheduled under the supervision/direction of SEL Coordinator.
Communicates necessary information about individual student needs and programming to the Educational Leadership Team and the students collaborative care team.
Completes Safety Care Training (or other relevant de-escalation training) to maintain full certification.
Completes risk assessment training, conducts risk assessments when clinically indicated, and documents and communicates with families and administration in accordance with results and student needs.
The SEL Mental Health Clinician works alongside and in collaboration with other mental health clinicians (adjustment counselor and guidance counselor) within the SEL Department and is directly supervised by the SEL Coordinator (school psychologist).
Knowledge of Responsive Classroom or willingness to be trained in the approach Knowledge or willingness to be trained in Interoception Curriculum, Zones of Regulation, Circles Curriculum, and Sexuality Education programming for disabled students.
Familiarity with the use of social stories and visuals to support social-emotional learning and skills development.
