Guidance Counselor

Responsibilities

• Thinks, communicates and behaves as a cause-driven leader and role model for other staff and members when it comes to desired staff behaviors; promotes youth development, healthy living, and
  social responsibility in all job-related functions.
• Interviews students to determine nature and severity of barriers in areas such as personal and family adjustments, finances, employment, food, clothing, housing, crime victims and physical
  impairments, and social-emotional concerns; documents all necessary information within 24 hours.
• Secures information such as medical, psychological, and social factors contributing to student’s behavior and reason for participation in Juvenile Justice programming.
• Conducts support groups, workshops, individual counseling for at-risk youth and their families while operating within a Trauma Informed framework in individual and group settings.
• Provides counseling, assessment, and intervention to youth based on trauma informed approach and refer students and families to community resources based upon individual needs assessment.
• Provide crisis intervention to participants experiencing emotional distress and follow up with parents/caregivers to assure youth receive necessary assistance.
• Assist with coordinating, collecting, and organizing program data for program reporting to funders and stakeholders.
• Ensures youth understand the procedures and expectations by clearly communicating and enforcing established rules in a positive manner and modeling socially accepted behavior.
• Observes students for signs of disruptive behavior such as violence, verbal outbursts, and episodes of destructiveness and diffuse situations using safe and effective tools and techniques.
• Adheres to policies related to boundaries with youth, participates in required abuse risk management training, reports suspicious and inappropriate behaviors, follows mandated abuse
  reporting requirements, adheres to job-specific abuse risk management responsibilities.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse groups and viewpoints from all social and economic segments of the organization and community. A commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti
  - racism is expected from our staff.

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university; and two years related experience and/or training;
  Master’s degree preferred, or equivalent combination of
  education and experience.
• Active License required (Counseling, LSW, MSW).
• Knowledge of Evidence Based Practices (CBT, Motivational Interviewing and utilizing the Transtheoretical Model of Change.)
• Proven track record of developing authentic relationships with others.
• Must have working knowledge of computers and experience with a variety of software applications.
• Passionate belief in the Y’s cause of nurturing the potential of all youth, supporting healthy living for all people and finding ways to help and support our neighbors.
• Ability to work effectively with diverse groups and viewpoints from all social and economic segments of the organization and community. A commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and anti-racism is expected from our staff.
• Proven track record of developing authentic relationships with others.
• Ability to foster a collaborative team approach to solving challenging situations.
• CPR, First Aid, AED and O2 certifications must be obtained within 90 days.