Job Description

The School Counselor will:

• Help to create and maintain a culture of respect, challenge, support, and care for all FlexSchool students.
• Provide ongoing support to students throughout the day through classroom push-in and as-needed crisis management.
• Maintain an open "virtual support room" for students to come to as needed throughout the day for emotional regulation and problem-solving.
• Provide IEP-mandated individual counseling as needed.

• Prepare necessary paperwork for PLAAFPs, IEP meetings, ADHD/ASD teacher reports and other documentation as needed.

• Run weekly social pragmatic groups or coping skill development groups for students (including Seminar).
• Plan and lead regular parent workshops and support groups.
• Participate in weekly Town Hall meetings.
• Coordinate with the other counselors to develop the Seminar program.
• Run small group counseling sessions.
• Teach weekly and/or daily health classes using a social-emotional lens as needed.
• Collaborate with the Learning Specialist to write and consistently update student learning profiles based on prior evaluations.

• Attend and participate in student articulation meetings, regular faculty meetings, and sometimes lead staff professional development.

• Meet with teachers as needed to discuss executive functioning and classroom management strategies.
• Communicate with parents about progress, concerns, and triumphs
• Maintain frequent communication with outside service providers to ensure that student needs are being met.
• Report all significant student concerns to the Head of School and collaborate on an action plan when appropriate.

• Supervise interns if applicable.
• Communicate with students' outside providers to build consistent SEL plans for students.

• Conduct Counseling Consultations for prospective students.
• Maintain above duties during Adventure Week, either in-person offsite, virtually for Cloud Adventure Week, or as otherwise assigned by their manager. While we seriously consider faculty preference and any reasonable accommodations, FlexSchool reserves the right to assign employees based on staffing.
• Other duties as requested by the Head of School

Qualifications:

• Masters degree in Social Work or related field
• Licensed by state of NY (when applicable))
• 2+ years experience in schools preferred
• Experience with gifted and/or Twice-Exceptional (2e) learners preferred but not required
• Familiarity with at least one of the following: CBT, DBT, Collaborative and Proactive Solutions, PBIS

For more information, or to apply now, you must go to the website below. Please DO NOT email your resume to us as we only accept applications through our website.

About FlexSchool

FlexSchool is a private middle and high school that specializes in motivating and supporting gifted and twice-exceptional (2e) students. We individualize our coursework to accelerate when possible and decelerate when necessary, always celebrating strengths and meeting students where they are. Many highly creative, eager gifted students struggle to thrive in school. Some lose their confidence, their sense of purpose and finally their will to try. Twice-exceptional students experience similar challenges. Whether they are impacted by a specific learning disability, poor executive functioning, slow processing speed, ASD, anxiety, or even intense stubbornness to “do things their way,” they are stuck. Whether online or on campus, our unique approach of ability and discussion-based classes, small class size, and social and emotional support allows students to take risks and thrive in ways they haven’t been able to in their previous school environments. In addition, attending a school with students like themselves provides a space for students to find friends, practice social skills with a forgiving student body, and learn to appreciate and accept the quirks of others. FlexSchool is ... an accredited school providing a high-quality, discussion-based, experiential educational experience for students who want more. FlexSchool has two physical locations: Berkeley Heights, NJ, and Bronxville, NY. We have offered our innovative live online Cloud Campus for the last six years. ‘Without affection,’ J.V. Milne once wrote, ‘the schoolroom is a hard, forbidding place. With love, it becomes the next best place to home.’

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