Job Title: Mental Health Service Coordinator
Terms of Employment: 10-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:
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).
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.
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:
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).
