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About the Role
The Center for Disability Services is seeking a School Counselor in Queensbury, NY, to support students within the Children Services Division. This role is crucial in providing comprehensive behavioral health services and ensuring quality care for students and their families, aligning with the organization's mission to foster hope, innovation, and achievement.
Responsibilities
- Supports students of the Children Services Division and the organization's mission by providing comprehensive behavioral health services.
- Works collaboratively with administration, team members, program directors, and interdisciplinary teams to ensure quality services for all students and their families.
- Develops recommended annual individualized education plan (IEP) goals and objectives.
- Develops appropriate treatment plans based on a student’s IEPs.
- Provides comprehensive psychosocial services using methods and instruments appropriate to the developmental age and needs of the student.
- Provides services as indicated on annual IEP.
- Documents student treatment outcomes correctly and contemporaneously.
- Implements classroom management and individual behavior intervention.
- Provides assistance as necessary to management and team during student/family crisis and/or suspected child abuse/neglect screening and reporting.
Requirements
- Graduate degree (Masters) in field of Social Work, Psychology, or Behavioral Sciences.
- NYS Licensure as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC).
- Mental Health Counselor (MHC) Limited Permit working towards LMHC.
- Master Social Worker (MSW) working towards LMSW.
- Professional experience working with students with developmental, physical, neurological disorders, and Autism Spectrum disorders preferred.
- Less than 1 year of job-related experience required.
- Must be at least 18 years old.
- Must be able to lift a minimum of 50 pounds.
Skills
- Behavioral health services
- Individualized Education Plan (IEP) development
- Treatment planning
- Psychosocial services
- Classroom management
- Behavior intervention
- Crisis intervention
- Child abuse/neglect screening and reporting
Location
- Queensbury, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
- Follows school calendar with a mandatory six-week summer school session
Experience Level
- Less than 1 year
Education Level
- Master's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $68,945.06 - $75,606.80
About the Company
- Where people get better at life!
- Join us in our mission to make a difference and shape a more inclusive future.
- The Center for Disability Services offers hope, innovation and achievement to the people we support.
- For 80 years, we have been one of upstate New York’s largest providers of programs and services for individuals who have disabilities.
- Many of the innovative programs and vital services that we offer are not available elsewhere.
Equal Opportunity
- At the Center for Disability Services, we don’t just accept difference – we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees and the people we support.
- We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any protected class of job applicant or employee in our employment practices.