DCS Mental Health Coordinator

Job Title: Mental Health Service Coordinator

Terms of Employment: 12-month

Job Description:

The Mental Health Services Coordinator works with students, families, teachers, and administrators to identify and address the social/emotional, mental health, and wellness needs of students through collaboration with school-based and community mental health professionals, including school counselors, school social workers, school nurses, school psychologists, and school resource officers

Job Qualifications:

• Master's degree from an accredited college or university

• Valid Alabama School Counselor Certification

• Previous professional mental health experience or licensed in mental health occupation including, but not limited to, licensure as licensed professional counselor (LPC) or marriage and family therapist (MFT).

• Minimum of five (5) years school counseling experience

Supervisor: Superintendent or Designee

Essential Functions

• Provides assessments to determine the social, emotional, and behavioral needs of students for the purpose of pinpointing the source of school or parental concerns; coordinates effective intervention strategies that will lead the students to be more successful in school.

• Serves on multidisciplinary team(s) to address needs of students, including students from special populations, to ensure data-informed implementation of appropriate services, programming, and/or placement.

• Maintains accurate, complete, and punctual records as required by law, district policy, and administrative directions.

• Abides by the Alabama Professional Educator Code of Ethics, in addition to those required by his or her professional specialty area.

• Understands and adheres fully to requirements of FERPA and HIPPA.

• Provides consultation and professional learning to administration, faculty, and other school employees on broad areas of mental health and wellness-related issues.

• Consults with administrators and appropriate school employees to ensure student success and assists in the structure to remove barriers to learning.

• Consults with parents regarding ways they can assist student(s) in becoming successful in and out of school.

• Provides crisis intervention services as needed.

• Assists schools in the prevention, intervention, and postvension of grief and/or suicide as needed.

• Coordinates direct and indirect services for students and parents.

• Serves as a liaison between school, families, and community agencies on a continuous basis.

• Utilizes community resources to effectively serve family and student needs.

• Assists the school in planning programs that prevent, reduce, or alleviate situations that interfere with the learning process of students.

Salary Schedule and Amount: State Minimum Salary Schedule Classroom Teachers

Evaluation

Since the Mental Health Services Coordinator will employ the multi-tiered system of support, the Dallas County School System will use the following methodology to monitor the implementation of the process through the following:

• Analyze user and data reports monthly or as required to monitor acceleration and intervention resource programs to evaluate students' progress and fidelity of implementation to support effectiveness.

• Monitor the progress of student through the integration of plans that address student's academic, behavioral and social emotional needs

• Monitor the implementation of newly introduced strategies and interventions post professional development delivery.

• Report feedback on the increase level of targeted student support

• The implementation and sustainability of building district and school-wide approach to student support and partnerships: Creating a framework of multi-tiered system of support is a "way of doing business" which utilizes high quality instructions (observation through classroom observation), intervention (demonstration student data progress), and assessment practices (assurance that every student receives appropriate level of support to be successful).