Student Support Specialist

Description:

Identifies triages and co-manages students with social emotional health problems within the school-based setting. Provides responsive and preventative behavior support to students through using de-escalation strategies, providing check-in/check-outs, in-class support, lunch groups, teaching various social emotional strategies, etc.
SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with school counselor(s), school social worker, and admin team to compile a caseload of students.

• Responsible for creating and managing a daily schedule of students to meet with.

• Primary responsibility will be to respond to radio calls for behavior support promptly. Must be able to multitask and handle triage more than one request at a time.

• Keep daily use of time logs, recording various data points into google forms; daily.

• Work with the school team; school counselor, school social worker, administrators, school psychologist, EC team, to coordinate care, create behavior/safety plans, identify areas needing additional support, etc.

• Teach students skills including self-regulation, mindfulness, zones of regulation, etc.

• Provide consultation and/or education to school personnel (e.g. school counselors, principals, and teachers) as needed.

• Maintain, improve, and develop positive relationships with families/ students/ school contracted support personnel/ school staff (e.g. school counselors, principals, and teachers).

• Maintain and track data within the ReSet room, provide structure to students utilizing the space, and ensure a safe environment for students to regulate emotions. As well as, create and provide education to students, staff and families around the ReSet room.