School Counselor (Middle School and High School)
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES: FLSA: EXEMPT
Supports District schools and principals in their effort to foster an optimal educational environment for students. To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational, occupational, and life plans that hold promise for their personal fulfillment as mature and responsible men and women.
MAJOR TASKS:
· Plans, organizes and delivers the comprehensive school counseling program.
· Delivers and implements the guidance curriculum through the use of effective instructional skills and careful planning of structured classroom lessons and small group sessions.
· Implements the individual student planning component by guiding individuals and groups of students and their parents through the development of education and career plans.
· Implements the responsive services component through the effective use of individuals and small group counseling, consultation and referral skills.
· Implements the systems support component through effective guidance program management and support for other educational programs.
· Knows how to use data as a guide when deciding school counseling direction and emphasis.
· Monitors the students on a regular basis as they progress in school.
· Uses the skills of leadership, advocacy and collaboration to create systematic change to improve the academic and career success for all.
· Takes an active role in interpreting the school's objectives to students, parents, and the community at large.
· Works with teachers and other staff members to familiarize them with the general range of services offered by the student personnel services department, and to improve the educational prospects of individual students being counseled.
· Supervises the preparation and processing of college, scholarship, and employment applications.
· Initiates, assembles, maintains, and interprets cumulative progress records, activity records, and uniform transcript records for assigned students.
QUALIFICATIONS:
· Master's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in guidance and counseling and course work in psychology, testing and measurement, sociology, and education.
· Experience as a school counselor implementing the ASCA National Model.
· Classroom experience teaching school counseling competiencies.
· Arizona Guidance Counselor Certificate .
· Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit and use hands to finger, handle or feel objects. The employee is frequently required to stoop, bend, or crouch.
The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and frequently lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: 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 individual with disability to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works in outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and extreme heat.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and frequently low.
SUPERVISION:
Received From: Principal
Given to: Student Body
EVALUATION: At least once annually by the Administrator in accordance with the policy of the Governing Board.