Position : Social Worker/ School Counselor/ Mental Health Counselor

Reports to: Director of Scholar Culture and K-8 Principal or 9-12 Principal

Nuasin Next Generation Charter School, is a K-12 institution with a strong history and presence in the Highbridge Bronx area. At Nuasin Next Generation Charter School, we truly value and believe in our scholars and communities, which is why we push and demand only the highest academic and intellectual standards. Nuasin Next Generation Charter School, formerly Metropolitan Lighthouse Charter School, is in the process of transitioning from a national CMO to an independent charter school and is looking for innovative, passionate, and talented leaders to partner with us to continue to build the great school our scholars, parents, staff and community truly deserve.

We are looking for an immediate hire in the High School.

Social Worker/SchoolCounselor provides support services to scholars, staff, and parents. Support services include referrals, counseling, assessment, diagnostics, and report writing. The essential functions for our social workers/ school counselorsconsist of the following five critical areas:

The anticipated salary range is $70,000.00 to $110,000.00for a candidate who will work in New York City. The salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience to the job, education, and certifications.

School Culture

• Completes assessments, referrals, and counseling with scholars and families.
• Serves as a member of school-based teams to provide support to families.
• Implement Professional Development for Teachers.
• Assist in School Events when needed.
• Model the core values of Nuasin Next Generation Charter School at all times; be a visible and highly engaged leader in the school community.
• Support a school culture of high behavioral expectations that enables a consistent focus on academic results
• Support all staff around behavior management, classroom culture, and school wide systems.
• Liaison with teaching and administrative staff to support scholars.
• Provide at risk services for scholars individually and in small groups around individualized behavior goals to manage crisis intervention.
• Communicate and reinforce explicit and high behavioral expectations based on our Core Values.
• Work closely and effectively with scholars who have behavior challenges; partner with the Culture team, teachers and families to execute individualized behavior interventions when needed.
• Member of the Building Crisis Response Team.
• Research and develop character education plan to inform Advisory lessons (in HS).
• Research and develop character education and other initiatives as needed (in K-8).

Management

• Manage the implementation of social emotional curriculum
• Manage ACS and other support agencies to support scholars receiving services and assist ACS representatives, when needed.
• Participate in regularly scheduled position meetings and check in meetings with the Culture team to ensure the school’s successful implementation of best practices, and shared, mission-aligned professional development.
• Ensure smooth operation of the schoolwide systems and routines that support scholars, teachers and families.
• Serves as school’s McKinney Vento Liaison.

Counseling

• Counseling scholars with personal and psychological issues that affect their performance, behavior, and socialization in school.
• Providing counseling sessions, treatment plans, or workshops as necessary and establishing prevention programs and intervention plans.
• Assisting teachers and administrators with behavioral and attitude issues by communicating with scholars to find the causes of their distress.
• Providing information, when appropriate, to outside support services to help scholars with economic, emotional, or physical issues.
• Assisting at-risk scholars or scholars with disabilities.
• Communicating with parents, teachers, and administrators to understand scholars’ challenges.
• Helping scholars and families suffering from abuse, violence, hunger, or homelessness to access resources like shelters, food banks, and medical care.

Adult Learning and Coaching

• Attend regularly scheduled check in meetings with teachers to provide tier 1 social/emotional support for their classroom culture and provide feedback pertaining to scholars social and emotional wellbeing.
• Educate staff in areas where emotional issues affect educational progress.

Community Engagement

• Provide regularly scheduled office hours to provide accessibility to support for families.
• Follow a consistent schedule for availability during arrival and dismissal.
• Support and collaborate with structures that establish families as partners including the Parent association, Family Conferences, classroom and school-wide and network wide family events during and after school as needed.
• Support and create workshops and seminars for families as needed.
• Collaborate with the Culture team to provide resources about educational and recreational opportunities.
• Be well versed in community resources that support physical and mental health.
• Connect families to social services and community resources.
• Seek out professional resources and attend professional development to meet the needs of Nuasin scholars to continuously improve practice.