Advocate Counselor

3 weeks ago

Brooklyn, United States Brooklyn Community Services Full time

**Position: Advocate Counselor**

**Program/Department: Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community Service**

**Reports to: Program Director**

**Work Location: 300 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn**

**Hours: Full Time - 35 hours per week Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm**

**This position is fully in-person and does not offer any remote work.**

**Salary Range: $42,000 - $51,000**

**Position Summary**

**Brooklyn Community Services is one of Brooklyn’s first and largest non-sectarian social services agencies. BCS, which presently serves more than 10,000 individuals annually, is committed to a broad and diverse range of services including education and child care; services to strengthen families; and services to foster self-sufficiency for adults.**

**Brooklyn High School for Leadership and Community Service is a small, academically rigorous, full-time New York City Department of Education Transfer School designed to re-engage high school students who are over-age and under-credited or have dropped out of high school. BCS is directly responsible for the administration of the school’s Learning-to-Work Program, which enhances the school’s academic component by offering additional academic support, career and education exploration, work preparation, skills development, and internships.**

**The Advocate Counselor works in support of Brooklyn High School's goals to re-engage high school students. The advocate counselor provides individual and group counseling, case management, advocacy, referrals, and crisis intervention to over-aged, under-credited adolescents.**

**Responsibilities**:

- **Provide academic planning and case management services for a caseload of 40 + students.**
- **Provide weekly individual and daily group counseling, including facilitating an Advisory Group five days per week.**
- **Assist youth in attending school regularly by identifying obstacles, connecting students with resources and conducting attendance outreach including home visits.**
- **Assist youth with the development of actionable post-secondary plans.**
- **Provide immediate crisis intervention support as needed, including mediation support.**
- **Provide family outreach and conduct parent/guardian meetings as appropriate.**
- **Provide counseling and support services to families with the intent of improving communication between family members and students to ensure they have support they need to function at optimal levels.**
- **Document all work and keep case records on all students on caseload as required.**
- **Attend DOE Parent-Teacher conferences, School Leadership meetings, Parent Teacher Association meetings. and Out of town College Trips in accordance with DOE school calendar.**
- **Willingness to perform all duties remotely as well as in person as assigned.**
**Other duties as assigned by the Program Coordinator.**

**Qualifications**:

- **Bachelors Degree required; MSW Preferred**
- **Experience and demonstrated case management support in working with youth and families.**
- **College preparatory experience required.**
- **Committed to upholding an inclusive environment in program that fosters a sense of community, belonging and connectedness.**
- **Must have excellent time management, organizational, verbal and written communication skills.**
- **Must have a commitment to work from a strength based and/or youth and family development perspective.**
- **Knowledge in Trauma Informed Practice a plus.**
- **Willingness to be creative and work as an integral part of a team.**
- **Fingerprinting and background check.**
- **Must have a commitment to work from a strength-based and/or youth development perspective**
- **Prior experience in a school setting.**

**BCS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities.

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