JPA Chicago - Mental Health Consultant (Make a Difference!)

Are you a mental health professional whose passion is helping make a difference in kids’ lives? JPA Chicago is looking for a Mental Health Consultant to work in their Connect 2 Kids program. Their C2K program is a therapeutic consultation program focused on building and enhancing caring and supportive relationships between teachers and students to help students feel and function better. C2K partners licensed mental health clinicians work with educators and schools in under-resourced communities impacted by trauma and social and economic inequities. C2K consultants provide reflective consultation, training, and support to enhance educators’ understanding of the social emotional needs of their students and develop trauma-informed and relational practices that can be incorporated into daily school and classroom activities. You will take a lead role in this innovative program, providing guidance and support to teachers and school staff while also contributing to program development and evaluation. Does this sound like a job for you? Look over the details and consider applying today!

Job Function:

• Collaborate with teachers and other members of the school staff to provide weekly reflective consultations that highlights the ongoing social and emotional needs of students; how teachers experience, understand and respond to these needs and the impact of the teacher-student relationship on student wellbeing and classroom behavior.
• Provide support, feedback, guidance, and resources to teachers, with the goal of supporting positive teacher-student interactions and relationships while enhancing trauma-responsive classroom and school environments.
• Provide observations of individual students and classrooms with follow-up assessments and consultation to teachers.
• Facilitate developmentally appropriate social-emotional lessons and activities for students in the classroom setting across a variety of ages and grades (pre-K through 8th).
• Provide professional development workshops and training about SEL and mental health to school staff as needed.
• Build and sustain collaborative partnerships with administrators and school staff.
• Contribute to weekly meetings with Associate Director of Clinical Practices and others as needed.
• C2K Consultants participate in case consultation and planning for program implementation.
• Engage in weekly individual reflective supervision with the Associate Director of Clinical Practices.
• Complete necessary documentation on an ongoing basis and contribute information to grant reports and program evaluation activities.
• Contribute to projects related to the ongoing development and quality improvement of the C2K program model.
• Contribute to other agency and community activities as needed, including JPA’s Graduate-Level Internship Program, school-based crisis support, fundraising events, etc.

Basic Requirements:

• Master’s degree in social work, professional counseling, or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of professional clinical experience working with children and families.
• LCSW/LCPC nice to have.

Still interested? Apply now! We look forward to hearing from you.

Note: Pay will be based on level of experience and skillset. EOE