Guiding Light Academy Job Description
Job Title: Licensed Counselor or Social Worker
Level/Salary Range: Based on experience
Position Type: Full Time (35-40 hours per education week)
MASTERS DEGREE AND ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CURRENT ILLINOIS LICENSES IS REQUIRED: LPC, LCPC, LSW, LCSW
Schedule: Therapeutic Day School- Adjusted 6 week summer work schedule Fridays off, (2) 2-week summer breaks, 1-week spring break and 2 week winter break.
Job Purpose:
Therapists (along with counseling, psychology, rehabilitation and social work interns) are primarily responsible for providing behavioral modification and management interventions and psychotherapy services to students as dictated by their
Individualized Student Education Plans (IEPs) in the form of related services. Interventions are delivered through individual sessions, group therapy, psychoeducation and overall behavioral milieu management. Therapists collaborate with teachers, behavioral analysts, and other related service staff in facilitating ongoing communication with students’ parents/ guardians and ancillary providers (academic, mental health, social services and legal).
General Duties:
Individual Sessions
- Meets with assigned caseload students weekly to provide psychotherapy session minutes as mandated by related service minutes associated with social, emotional, behavioral and functional IEP goals.
- Provides additional skills training in emotion regulation, problem solving, and overall coping skill development to be applied in the academic, vocational and social settings.
- Documents and files individual session notes.
- Completes recommended assessments/diagnostic tools, mental health screenings and summaries and files reports in student therapy files.
- Attends, presents and implements student behavioral management/incentive contracts at interdisciplinary meetings.
- Maintains accurate and confidential student session behavioral data and collaborates with teachers and paraprofessionals to generate accurate classroom data and other clinically relevant documentation within ethical and professional practice guidelines.
Group Psychotherapy/Psychoeducation
- Plans, facilitates and documents psychotherapy/psychoeducation groups in accordance with guidelines of group modules with the following topics and content: Emotion Regulation, Coping Skills, Anger Management, Social Skills and Relationships, Art/Movement/Music therapies and Animal Assisted therapy.
- Manages group attendance ratios, dynamics and interventions as planned and coordinated with therapists, behavior analysts and paraprofessional staff.
- Records related service minutes in student related service minutes log immediately following individual and group sessions.
- Logs group therapy sessions with specific detail and content sampling in group binders after every group facilitation.
Milieu Management
- Coaches and assists students in implementation of coping skills needed to manage emotion dysregulation or crisis situations.
- Collaborates with staff in modeling, managing and prompting appropriate student behaviors in and outside of classroom contexts as dictated by both expressed and implied academic and behavioral expectations as presented in student IEPs, student handbooks and classroom rules.
Collaboration
- Prepares, updates, revises and communicates student’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP) social emotional goals (will train), Functional Behavior Analysis (FBA) and Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP).
- Attends and participates in scheduled IEP multidisciplinary meetings.
- Prepares and provides pertinent IEP updates to student teacher/case manager before IEP meetings.
- Actively communicates student behavioral concerns and updates to parents, behavior analysts, social workers, physicians, therapists, probation officers and other ancillary student service or care providers as deemed clinically necessary after obtaining appropriate consent.
- Participates in classroom behavioral management by role modeling appropriate behaviors, providing feedback, providing coping skills prompts and interventions, participating in individualized academic assistance, offering conflict resolution interventions and crisis intervention.
- Prepares, develops and presents pertinent student case studies and clinical or psychoeducational topics for purpose of staff development.
- Communicates and arranges for group and individual therapy coverage by rescheduling missed related services minutes with supervisor, therapists and teachers.
- Responds to mental health crisis (SASS, DCFS, local law enforcement)
- Therapists report to the lead therapist and will be clinically supervised in weekly and group clinical supervision sessions.
Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
Skills/Qualifications:
- First Aide/ CPR Certified
- Regular and predictable attendance
- Federal/State background check clearance
- Sex Offender check clearance
- Hearing and vision within the normal limits
- Integrity and ability to work independently
- Legal to work in the United States
- LPC or LCPC Licensure Certification
Benefit Conditions:
- Waiting period may apply
- Only full-time employees eligible
Work Remotely
Job Type: Full-time(40 hours per week)
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
Application Question(s):
- Are you willing to undergo a background check, in accordance with local law/regulations?
- Do you have the following license or certification: LPC or LCPC or LSW or LCSW
- Are you authorized to work in the United States?
Experience:
- relevant: 1 year (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- ONE OF THE FOLLOWING CURRENT ILLINOIS LICENSES IS REQUIRED: LPC, LCPC, LSW, LCSW
Work Location: May possibly vary
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Work setting:
Application Question(s):
- Are you willing to undergo a background check, in accordance with local law/regulations?
- Do you have the following license or certification: LPC or LCPC OR LSW OR LCSW
Work Location: In person