Life Coach

Salary: $66,300 - $68,000/yr

Position Summary:
The Life Coach position at CACPCS will directly be involved in the lives of the scholars and family by providing social/emotional support, community resources, assistance in navigating multiple systems, and coordinating care that will support the family system maintain equilibrium. Life Coaches will monitor and organize all Life Coach support referrals submitted by teachers, staff and parents. They will collaborate with teachers in the implementation of the social/emotional curriculum for assigned grades.

Life Coaches will provide support to children and participate in completing tasks that support the daily operation of the school. CACPCS Life Coaches work collaboratively with the Senior Life Coaches and under the daily supervision of the Life Coach Director who works under the direction of the Community School Director and the Head of School.

Essential Duties:

Engage

• Understand and promote the organization's Mission, Vision, and Core Values to ensure alignment with organizational policies and procedures.
• Foster positive and healthy relationships with each student/family in a grade and/or as assigned.
• Foster positive and healthy relationships with all school staff including the principal, teachers and all other school personnel.
• Reach out to other Children's Aid staff throughout the organization as needed for resources, services or other supports as needed by students and their families.
• Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment, person-in-environment, and other multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks to engage with clients and constituencies.

Assess

• Collaborate with Senior Life Coaches, students and families to assess needs of support and place appropriate referrals (ex. Completing New York Times Neediest, Health Connections Referrals, and other outside referrals to help support scholar and family).
• Work with colleagues, supervisor and director to identify and coordinate academic and socio-emotional resources for students and their families.

Intervene

• Coordinate Scholar Success Meetings, parent conferences, and organize parent groups.
• Assure classrooms have all necessary supplies and materials to support Life Skills and Power Groups and to provide scholars with the tools and materials needed to enhance self-regulation skills and to support teachers and scholars with how to use these tools and materials.
• Provide in class support for struggling students and provide recommendations for supervisors, teachers and paraprofessionals to ensure children are able to learn.
• Facilitate home visits when necessary.

Monitor

• Organize demographic information for scholars involved in the Child Welfare System, Homeless, and/or impacted by incarceration into school database.
• Monitor and track all Life Coach Clinical referral forms.

Program

• Facilitating and implementing social/emotional curriculum 1-2 times a week for each class.
• Co-facilitate clinical groups with Senior Life Coaches focusing on bullying, violence, anxiety, relationships, impulse control, and many others topics.
• Research Children's Aid and other community resources and create presentations to enhance knowledge on the development of children and how to provide trauma-informed care.

Advocate

• Use the resources provided by Children's Aid to meet the needs of scholars on a daily basis.
• Advocate for scholars and families, and staff in order to access external resources.

Clinical Practice

• Use empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills to effectively engage diverse clients and constituencies.
• Use supervision and consultation to guide professional judgment and behavior. Make ethical decisions by applying the standards of the NASW Code of Ethics, relevant laws and regulations, models for ethical decisions-making, ethical conduct of research, and additional codes of ethics as appropriate to context.
• Recognize the importance of diversity and difference in practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.
• Apply self-awareness and self-regulation to manage the influence of personal biases and values in working with diverse clients and constituencies.
• Participate in on-going training and professional…