School Socio-Emotional Counselor

School Socio-Emotional Counselor

Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School - Lawrence, Massachusetts. Open in Google Maps

Job : 5700345
Final date to receive applications: Jun 30, 2026 11:59 PM (UTC)
Posted: May 08, 2026 12:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Aug 24, 2026

Reports To / Evaluated By: Principal, Vice Principal

Terms of Employment:  School Year – Fulltime

Scope of Responsibilities: Assigned specifically to two grades to provide social‑emotional and academic support.

Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School (NDCR) is a private, Catholic, college-preparatory high school located in Lawrence, serving 274 students—many of whom are first‑generation college‑bound. The school is part of the Cristo Rey Network, a growing network of 30 schools across the United States built on a model that integrates rigorous academics with real‑world work experience. Central to this model is the Corporate Work Study Program (CWSP), an innovative and highly successful partnership with the business community, providing students with meaningful professional opportunities while helping to make their education more accessible.

Through CWSP, each student works five full days per month during the academic year at one of 74 partner companies, earning approximately 60% of the cost of their own education while gaining invaluable workplace experience and professional skills.

Primary Functions: The socio‑emotional counselor will focus on two grades of students (caseload of roughly 140‑150 students) and support socio‑emotional and academic needs. Expectations will be that the counselor will meet and form relationships with all students on their caseload.

• Conduct structured, goal‑oriented counseling sessions in systematic response to identified needs of individuals or groups of students—recurring topics include academic failure, attendance and behavior problems, peer problems, family issues, bullying, self‑harm, suicidal ideation, and more.
• Consult with, and facilitate conferences with, teachers, staff and parents/families regarding the developmental needs of students.
• Work collaboratively with the Principal, Vice Principal and Dean of Students to identify and address student mental health and behavioral issues.
• Serve as an advocate and acceptable model for students, demonstrating personal and intellectual honesty and respecting the rights of others.
• Provide counseling to individual students (behavioral, emotional, academic, social, psychological) as well as to small groups of students in the freshman class.
• Consult with and be a resource person to teachers to facilitate infusion of strategies into the classroom.
• Assume an active role in designing, implementing, monitoring, and adjusting behavioral and/or educational plans for individual students as needed.
• Serve as an advocate for groups or individual students as decisions are made that will affect those students.
• Document and evaluate guidance learning activities as they are implemented.
• Pursue professional growth: attend state and locally sponsored development offerings, join associations (ASCA, MASCA), read professional journals, attend relevant workshops, etc.
• Provide activities to help students understand themselves and their relationships with others, and seek to develop in students increased competency in decision‑making and problem‑solving.
• Provide direction, consultation, and training services for teachers, both on an individual and group basis, involving classroom/student management, student‑teacher and teacher‑parent relationships, and the social/emotional development of children.
• Other duties as assigned by the Principal and/or Vice Principal and Dean of Students.

• Guide parents toward resources available to them, both within and outside the school system, and serve as a resource person to parents and staff on the growth and development of children.
• Refer students with problems to appropriate program specialists or community agencies.

• Must possess a master’s degree in School Counseling, Mental Health Counseling or Social Work from an accredited college or university.
• Must…