Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston, NJ seeks a full-time Guidance Counselor for the upcoming school year.
Responsibilities:
Connect with students across grades 9-12 about individual, personal, and community issues;
Build empathy with every student in caseload with individualized, nuanced understanding;
Partner with administration and parents;
Support in-classroom social-emotional learning initiatives across all grades;
Demonstrate warmth, collegiality, humor, and industry in interactions with students and colleagues;
Use responsive counseling strategies to establish relationships and collaborate with educators, students, families, and community partners which reflect recognition of and respect for each individual;
Assists families in obtaining services for their children through an appropriate referral and follow-up process
Collaborate with teachers to bring social-emotional learning into every classroom
Collaborate with community resources to bring programming related to mental health into the High School
A masters degree or MSW and guidance experience preferred, though all candidates are encouraged to apply by resume to jobs@jkha.org
Contact Email:jobs@jkha.org