JOB SUMMARYThe School Adjustment Counselor supports the schools educational goals and contributes to ensuring students physical social emotional and intellectual wellbeing. The School Adjustment Counselor serves as an advocate liaison coordinator case manager and consultant for students parents school staff and/or community agency personnel. The School Adjustment Counselor conducts various educational/psychological assessments participates in IEP and 504 meetings collaborates with parents/guardians and agency personnel and provides assistance to staff on various issues to include conducting home visits as School Adjustment Counselor reports to the Director of Special Education and ELL andcollaborates extensively with other administrators and student support RESPONSIBILITIES:1. Provides evidencebased counseling services for students in support of academicsocial emotional and behavioral growth.2. Serves as an active member of the schools Student Services Team and the CrisisResponse Team.3. Manages schoolbased support plans for students receiving Tier 3 and Tier 2interventions for social/emotional/behavioral health needs; serves as a liaison to communitypartners.4. Provides caseload support direct service and consultation for all students with socioemotional goals per their Individual Education Plans.5. Proposes writes implements and tracks goals as a service provider and/or consultantin accordance with individual students IEP and/or 504 Plan.6. Leads and/or participates in various student/teacher/family conferences includingFamily Group DecisionMaking meetings; reentry meetings; Special Education Teammeetings and KidTalk (prereferral) conferences.7. Provides individual student and schoolwide crisis intervention as needed.8. Delivers researchbased programming that addresses the social emotional behavioraland academic needs of students (e.g. Signs of Suicide (SOS) Screening Brief Interventionand Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) etc.9. Participates in IEP and 504 Accommodation Plan meetings (initial annual review).10. Administers educational assessments as called for by educational teams.11. Facilitates student groups in response to student needs; supports others (e.g. LearningSpecialists Advisors) to embed targeted skillbuilding in established learning environments.12. Coordinates student referrals for counseling through outreach and collaboration withagencies families and various community partners.13. Serves as the Home / Hospital liaison for students in behavioral health placements.14. Serves as the Special Education Liaison for students with IEPs that are strictly servicedby the SAC (runs annual and progress meetings maintains IEP deadlines goals SERVICES TEAM SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES1. Supports the student Advisory Program.2. Partners with families to develop plans for responding to student needs.3. Maintains accurate student records for case load.4. Collects and analyzes school counseling services data.5. Communicates and collaborates extensively with teachers administrators the schoolnurse leader family members external agencies and other student allies as needed topromote student success.6. Regularly monitors student progress.7. Encourages and provides system support in response to the needs of students and theschool community.8. Performs duties related to data collection and input (Rediker Frontline and otherinformation systems).9. Maintains relationships with and acts as a liaison to outside agencies.10. Collaborates and consults on various grants that support student behavioral health andacademic success.11. Provides administrative consultation regarding matters related to student disability anddiscipline (e.g. manifestation determination).