Mental Health Professional - 24.25. School Year

Company Description

Position Overview: 

KIPP St. Louis Mental Health Professionals are at the core of our mission. They help students to develop the knowledge, skills, and character strengths needed to succeed throughout their education and in the competitive world beyond.

Who we are: KIPP St. Louis is a part of a national network of free, open-enrollment, public charter schools offering a choice to families and children in St. Louis city. As the largest charter school system in the city, we are driven and committed to our mission, vision, and equity statement.

Mission: Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose—college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.

Vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.

Equity Statement: KIPP St. Louis is committed to becoming an anti-racist and anti-sexist organization by confronting inequities, barriers, and oppressive policies and systems.

KIPP St. Louis currently educates over 2,000 students and at full growth, we will educate nearly 3,600 students and hundreds of alumni. Today, our St. Louis network consists of two middle schools, three elementary schools, and a high school.

Job Description

Postion Description: Reporting to the Manager of Mental Health, you’re a compassionate practice-focused mental health professional looking to work in a school. You show up every day to support your students’ social and emotional needs whether through ongoing counseling or one-off support. You know how to work across schools and the community to find connections to meet student and family need. Every day you are walking in to ensure your students can learn using the tools you develop alongside them. 

KIPP St. Louis Mental Health Professional

KIPP St. Louis is hiring a Mental Health Professional for the 2024-25 school year. 

Position Overview

KIPP St. Louis Mental Health Professionals (Elementary School Counselor & Social Worker),  are at the core of our mission to help students develop the knowledge, skills, and character strengths needed to succeed throughout their education and in the competitive world beyond.

If you firmly believe that all students can learn, if you have a proven willingness to do whatever it takes to disrupt the educational opportunity gap, if you thrive in an environment that is both fast-paced and collaborative and if you are eager to work alongside passionate educators committed to creating an equitable and inclusive school environment, then you are the one!

Position type: Full time, exempt, 10 month position

What you will do…

• Split time between 2-3 campuses to provide individual and group therapy to address student social emotional challenges

• Provide cognitive-behavioral interventions, including brief solution-focused strategies when appropriate

• Provide crisis intervention counseling as needed

• Maintain a caseload of students receiving regular, ongoing clinical services

• Maintain necessary documentation of clinical services

• Provide consultation and support to teachers working with students

• Provide regular contact with parents to monitor and support progress towards therapeutic goals

• Collaborate with a school interdisciplinary team to support school wide attendance efforts, specifically when it comes to following state Truancy Laws

• Collaborate with a school interdisciplinary team to provide Tier 2 supports to students

• Collaborate with social services professionals to develop appropriate agency services for students and families

• Collaborate with Special Education Team to provide related services per a student’s IEP

• Participate in school staff teams to develop policies and practices to prevent school violence and support opportunities for team-building and collaboration among students

• Create professional learning goals each year; willing to offer support to and receive constructive feedback from colleagues in order to create a professional working atmosphere that is conducive to change and