What are the responsibilities and job description for the School Adjustment Counselor position at Sizer School?
JOB SUMMARY
The School Adjustment Counselor supports the school’s educational goals and contributes to
ensuring students’ physical, social, emotional, and intellectual well-being. The School
Adjustment Counselor serves as an advocate, liaison, coordinator, case manager, and
consultant for students, parents, school staff and/or community agency personnel. The School
Adjustment Counselor conducts various educational/psychological assessments, participates
in IEP and 504 meetings, collaborates with parents/guardians and agency personnel, and
provides assistance to staff on various issues to include conducting home visits as needed.
The School Adjustment Counselor reports to the Director of Special Education and ELL and
collaborates extensively with other administrators and student support personnel.
ROLE-SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Provides evidence-based counseling services for students in support of academic,
social, emotional and behavioral growth.
2. Serves as an active member of the school’s Student Services Team and the Crisis
Response Team.
3. Manages school-based support plans for students receiving Tier 3 and Tier 2
interventions for social/emotional/behavioral health needs; serves as a liaison to community
partners.
4. Provides caseload support, direct service, and consultation for all students with socio-
emotional goals per their Individual Education Plans.
5. Proposes, writes, implements and tracks goals as a service provider and/or consultant
in accordance with individual student’s IEP and/or 504 Plan.
6. Leads and/or participates in various student/teacher/family conferences, including
Family Group Decision-Making meetings; re-entry meetings; Special Education Team
meetings, and KidTalk (pre-referral) conferences.
7. Provides individual student and school-wide crisis intervention as needed.
8. Delivers research-based programming that addresses the social, emotional, behavioral
and academic needs of students (e.g. Signs of Suicide (SOS), Screening, Brief Intervention
and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), etc.
9. Participates in IEP and 504 Accommodation Plan meetings (initial, annual, review).
10. Administers educational assessments as called for by educational teams.
11. Facilitates student groups in response to student needs; supports others (e.g. Learning
Specialists, Advisors) to embed targeted skill-building in established learning environments.
12. Coordinates student referrals for counseling through outreach and collaboration with
agencies, families, and various community partners.
13. Serves as Home/Hospital liaison for students in behavioral health placements.
14. Serves as the Special Education Liaison for students with IEP’s that are strictly serviced
by the SAC (runs annual and progress meetings, maintains IEP deadlines, goals, etc.).
STUDENT SERVICES TEAM – SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Supports the student Advisory Program.
2. Partners with families to develop plans for responding to student needs.
3. Maintains accurate student records for case load.
4. Collects and analyzes school counseling services data.
5. Communicates and collaborates extensively with teachers, administrators, the school
nurse leader, family members, external agencies and other student allies as needed to
promote student success.
6. Regularly monitors student progress.
7. Encourages and provides system support in response to the needs of students and the
school community.
8. Performs duties related to data collection and input (Rediker, Frontline, and other
information systems).
9. Maintains relationships with and acts as a liaison to outside agencies.
10. Collaborates and consults on various grants that support student behavioral health and
academic success.
11. Provides administrative consultation regarding matters related to student disability and
discipline manifestation determination).
