School Counselor - WWJH

POSITION DESCRIPTION

POSITION TITLE: School Counselor - Secondary Level

FLSA: Exempt Professional

QUALIFICATIONS:

Texas Teachers Certification

Master’s Degree or its equivalent in guidance counseling

Thorough understanding of school operations

Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills

Three years' experience as a classroom teacher

Knowledge of counseling procedures, student appraisal and career development

Ability to communicate effectively with students, parents, and community

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Plan and conduct structured group lessons to deliver district's guidance curriculum effectively in accordance with students' developmental needs.
• Guide students and parents to plan, monitor, and manage the student's own educational and career development.
• Use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to counsel individual students and parents to plan and manage student's personal and social development.
• Provide preventive, remedial, and crisis counseling as needed.
• Coordinate school, home, and community resources and refer students, parents, and others to special programs and services as needed.
• Consult parents, teachers, administrators, and other relevant people to enhance their work with students.
• Work with school and community personnel to bring together resources for students.
• Present for students a positive role model that supports the mission of the school district.
• Maintain a positive and effective relationship with supervisors and teachers.
• Effectively communicate with colleagues, students, and parents.
• Respond to needs related to job responsibilities.
• Use an effective referral process to assist students and others to use special programs and services.
• Interpret standardized test results and assessment data to guide students in individual goal setting and planning and communicate to parents.
• Plan school guidance and counseling programs to ensure they meet identified needs, priorities and program objectives.
• Plan, implement, evaluate, and promote continuous improvement of a balanced comprehensive developmental guidance and counseling program that includes guidance curriculum, responsive services, individual planning, and system support components.
• Develop and coordinate a continuing evaluation of the campus guidance center program.
• Demonstrate behavior that is professional, ethical, and responsible.
• specify and monitor student goals for behavioral change when appropriate.
• Demonstrate awareness of school-community needs and initiate activities to meet those needs.
• Comply with policies established by federal and state law, State Board of Education rule, and board policy in guidance and counseling areas, district and compus routines and regulations.
• Participate in professional development to improve skills appropriate to job assignment.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

None