Counselor or Social Worker

Counselor or Social Worker Guiding Light Academy- Shorewood, IL - 3.1 Shorewood, IL Job Details Part-time $37,200 - $39,000 a year 5 hours ago Benefits Health insurance Dental insurance 401(k) Paid time off Employee assistance program Vision insurance Employee discount Professional development assistance Life insurance Referral program Retirement plan Qualifications LCPC Working with individuals with developmental disabilities Teamwork LSW LPC Schedule management Working with students Counseling Social Work Full Job Description Company Overview Guiding Light Academy is approved by the Illinois State Board of Education and specializes in providing therapy and academic instruction for adolescents aged 5 to 21 with extraordinary needs. Our dedicated team supports students with diverse conditions, including autism, developmental delays, learning disabilities, and social/emotional disorders, fostering an inclusive and nurturing environment. Job Summary We are seeking a compassionate and skilled Counselor or Social Worker to join our multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in behavioral health, mental health counseling, and social work, with experience working with children and individuals with disabilities. This role involves delivering comprehensive clinical services, supporting students' emotional well-being, and collaborating with families and staff to promote positive outcomes. Duties Guiding Light Academy (GLA), a private therapeutic day school serving students from kindergarten through age 21. Therapists (along with counseling, psychology, rehabilitation and social work interns) are primarily responsible for providing behavioral modification and management interventions and psychotherapy services to students as dictated by their Individualized Student Education Plans (IEPs) in the form of related services. Interventions are delivered through individual sessions, group therapy, psychoeducation and overall behavioral milieu management. Therapists collaborate with teachers, behavioral analysts, and other related service staff in facilitating ongoing communication with students' parents/guardians and ancillary providers (academic, mental health, social services and legal). Individual Sessions  Meets with assigned caseload students weekly to provide psychotherapy session minutes as mandated by related service minutes associated with social, emotional, behavioral and functional IEP goals.  Provides additional skills training in emotion regulation, problem solving, and overall coping skill development to be applied in the academic, vocational and social settings.  Documents and files individual session notes.  Completes recommended assessments/diagnostic tools, mental health screenings and summaries and files reports in student therapy files.  Attends, presents and implements student behavioral management/incentive contracts at interdisciplinary meetings.  Maintains accurate and confidential student session behavioral data and collaborates with teachers and paraprofessionals to generate accurate classroom data and other clinically relevant documentation within ethical and professional practice guidelines. Group Psychotherapy/Psychoeducation  Plans, facilitates and documents psychotherapy/psychoeducation groups in accordancewith guidelines of group modules with the following topics and content: Emotion Regulation, Coping Skills, Anger Management, Social Skills and Relationships, Art/Movement/Music therapies and Animal Assisted Therapy.  Manages group attendance ratios, dynamics and interventions as planned and coordinated with therapists, behavior analysts and paraprofessional staff.  Records related service minutes in student related service minutes log immediately following individual and group sessions.  Logs group therapy sessions with specific detail and content sampling in group bindersafter every group facilitation. Milieu Management  Coaches and assists students in implementation of coping skills needed to manage emotion dysregulation or crisis situations.  Collaborates with staff in modeling, managing and prompting appropriate student behaviors in and outside of classroom contexts as dictated by both expressed and implied academic and behavioral expectations as presented in student IEPs, student handbooks and classroom rules. Collaboration  Prepares, updates, revises and communicates student's Individualized Education Plan(IEP) social emotional goals (will train), Functional Behavior Analysis (FBA) and Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP).  Attends and participates in scheduled IEP multidisciplinary meetings.  Prepares and provides pertinent IEP updates to student teacher/case manager before IEP meetings.  Actively communicates student behavioral concerns and updates to parents, behavior analysts, social workers, physicians, therapists, probation officers and other ancillary student service or care providers as deemed clinically necessary after obtaining appropriate consent.  Participates in classroom behavioral management by role modeling appropriate behaviors, providing feedback, providing coping skills prompts and interventions, participating in individualized academic assistance, offering conflict resolution interventions and crisis intervention.  Prepares, develops and presents pertinent student case studies and clinical orpsychoeducational topics for purpose of staff development.  Communicates and arranges for group and individual therapy coverage by rescheduling missed related services minutes with supervisor, therapists and teachers.  Responds to mental health crisis (SASS, DCFS, local law enforcement)  Therapists report to the lead therapist and will be clinically supervised in weekly and group clinical supervision sessions.

Pay:

$37,200.00 - $39,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k) Dental insurance Employee assistance program Employee discount Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Professional development assistance Referral program Retirement plan Vision insurance

Work Location:

In person