Licens Expectations

Required licensure: LMSW, LCSW, LPC, PLPC, or LPC 

Job Specific Expectations

Clinical Mental Health Counseling 

• Provides mental health and wellness services and programs that foster pro-social skills and appropriate behavior.

• Develops and implements treatment plans; conducts clinical interviews, assessments, observations, and writes clinical reports; provides individual, group, and family therapy services.

• Reviews referrals of students who need intensive mental health services; makes recommendations for behavioral health therapy services.

• Maintains documentation regarding students served and services provided.

• Completes psychosocial assessments to assist in the determination of special education services.

• Maintains and facilitates communication with and between families, mental health staff, and providers.

• Service students who are currently in crisis.

School-Wide Support 

• Identifies the mental health and behavioral needs of students.

• Conducts crisis and/or risk assessment and response. 

• Provides support in the development of behavior support plans.

• Manages homebound student services.

• Attends parent/student conferences as needed.

• Communicates and collaborates with academic counselors, faculty, staff, and administration as needed.

• Participates in IEP staffing and serves on the SAT team, which includes the initial screening process, when indicated.

• Identifies and assesses academic problems through analysis of factors impinging on student adjustment, including factors in the home, school, and community.

• Provides referrals to outside organizations as needed.

• Implements a system of universal screening in coordination with the school-wide system of social-emotional supports for early identification of students at risk.

• Promotes regular school attendance of students through ongoing attendance monitoring at school, counseling with students and their parents, and consulting with school personnel regarding the effectiveness of the school’s attendance incentive plan and seat-time recovery.

• Acts as the school’s McKinney-Vento Liaison by attending meetings, maintaining paperwork/data, meeting with identified students monthly, and providing required services to McKinney-Vento students.

Instructional Leadership 

• Provides training to students, parents, and staff in behavioral and social-emotional related preventions, interventions, and curricula.

• Engage in professional developments that will enhance knowledge within the role and maintain state licensure.