About this role
- Provide immediate crisis intervention and stabilization services for students, families, and staff during the school day and through assigned after-hours crisis response support.
- Conduct comprehensive risk and threat assessments involving suicide, non-suicidal self-injury, homicidal ideation, threats of harm, behavioral escalation, trauma exposure, and other mental health crises.
- Develop, implement, and monitor individualized safety and stabilization plans in collaboration with students, families, campus leadership, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Lead campus crisis response and post-incident stabilization efforts to minimize disruption, restore safe learning environments, and provide trauma-informed support following critical incidents.
- Respond to and ensure timely follow-up of all P3 anonymous tips in accordance with district safety, threat assessment, and crisis response protocols.
- Participate in threat assessment, Student Support Team (SST), crisis team, and MTSS meetings to support early identification, intervention planning, and coordinated service delivery.
- Provide short-term, trauma-informed, and solution-focused therapeutic interventions for individual students, classrooms, and groups impacted by crisis, trauma, or behavioral health concerns.
- Utilize clinical assessment tools, diagnostic techniques, and evidence-based practices to determine needs, develop treatment plans, monitor progress, and modify interventions as appropriate.
- Provide comprehensive case management services, including referrals and coordination with psychiatric, medical, mental health, social service, juvenile justice, hospital, and community-based providers.
- Support student transition and re-entry planning for students returning from DAEP placements, psychiatric hospitalization, residential treatment, juvenile justice placements, or other restrictive settings.
- Consult with campus administrators, counselors, educators, Student Support Teams, and Reset Coordinators to promote effective interventions, de-escalation strategies, restorative practices, classroom management, and positive student outcomes.
- Provide staff support following high-impact incidents, including consultation, psychoeducation, resilience-building, secondary trauma mitigation, and referral to Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Benefits resources.
- Develop and deliver professional learning and community outreach programs related to crisis response, suicide prevention, trauma-informed practices, social-emotional learning, threat assessment, mental health awareness, and behavioral health concerns.
- Maintain accurate, timely, and compliant clinical documentation and data review processes, ensuring adherence to district standards, evidence-based practices, FERPA, HIPAA, licensure requirements, and professional ethics.
- Maintain operational readiness and district-wide service delivery, including travel to multiple campuses, participation in hands-on crisis situations, collaboration with families and community partners, and working flexible schedules including evenings, weekends, and special events as needed.
- Master’s or Doctoral degree in Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, or related mental health field required.
- Current Texas licensure (LCSW, LMSW, LMFT, LPC, or LSSP) required.
Minimum of two (2) years of school-based or crisis response experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience conducting suicide and threat risk assessments.
- Strong knowledge of evidence-based therapeutic practices.
- Experience working in fast-paced environments requiring management of competing priorities, including crisis response and active caseloads.
- Ability to work collaboratively with students, families, educators, law enforcement, and community providers.
- Ability to provide reliable personal transportation.
- Ability and willingness to work non-traditional hours, including evenings or weekends, to support crisis response and family accessibility. Demonstrated experience conducting suicide and threat risk assessments.
- Strong knowledge of evidence-based therapeutic practices.
- Experience working in fast-paced environments requiring management of competing priorities, including crisis response and active caseloads.
- Ability to work collaboratively with students, families, educators, law enforcement, and community providers.
- Ability to provide reliable personal transportation.
- Ability and willingness to work non-traditional hours, including evenings or weekends, to support crisis response and family accessibility.
- Preferred Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish.
- Preferred Experience collaborating with juvenile justice, hospital systems, or community crisis teams.
- Position requires flexible working hours to meet the needs of students and families.
- May include evening hours and Saturdays to meet the needs of students and families.
- Occasional after-hours crisis response or special events may be required.
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