Adjustment Counselor

Framingham Public Schools is seeking a highly skilled Adjustment Counselor to join our team. As an Adjustment Counselor, you will provide essential support to students, families, and staff to promote academic success and social-emotional well-being.

• Identify and assess academic and behavioral concerns through analysis of factors impacting student adjustment.
• Develop and implement measurable goals and objectives to address students' social-emotional needs.
• Provide individual and group therapeutic counseling to students.
• Assist students in identifying, modifying, and changing behavior that interferes with achievement and school adjustment.
• Provide strategies and preventative interventions for clinical issues related to all school-age children.

• Current and valid MA DESE as a Social Worker/Adjustment Counselor.
• Experience supporting students in the academic, social/emotional, and career domains.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Experience working collaboratively with teachers, administrators, support staff, parents/community, and outside agencies.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must be required to move about and may be required to traverse occasionally throughout the school building;
• Must often remain in a stationary position for considerable periods of time;
• Is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl;
• Is expected to lift at least 20 lbs (i.e. books, school supplies, etc.);
• Must frequently use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and use hand strength to grasp tools;
• Must be able to assist students who have physical difficulties;
• Operate a computer and other office productivity machinery (i.e., a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer);
• Must be able to input information into a computer and as well as read material from a computer monitor as well as handwritten or printed matter with or without visual aids;
• Must be able to communicate effectively with students, parents, and other staff members in person, via email, and on the telephone;
• In the classroom, must be able to see and hear on a continuous basis in order to ensure the safety of students as well as speak frequently to provide instruction;
• May be required to move quickly across even or uneven surfaces;
• Working in a normal school environment with an acceptable level of noise;
• Must interact with students, parents, and other staff members;
• Must be able to kneel, sit, stand, crawl, push, and pull to assist and teach children throughout the day;
• Is directly responsible for the safety, well-being, and work output of students;
• Must be able to interact with students, parents, and other staff members and occasionally must meet multiple demands from several people;
• While the majority of the workday is spent inside, must spend time outdoors for recess, fire drills, and special activities;
• May be exposed to bodily fluids, disease, or pathogens;
• May receive unintentional injuries from aggressive students;
• And may be required some degree of physical interaction with students who have difficulty controlling physical behavior.