Institute of Innovation - Guidance Counselor

Institute of Innovation - Guidance Counselor  School Year)

Cherokee County School District Institute of Innovation – Gaffney, South Carolina – Open in Google Maps

Job : 5539557

Final date to receive applications: Feb 23, 2026 11:59 PM (UTC)

Posted: Feb 16, 2026 7:04 PM (UTC)

A CTE (Career and Technical Education) Guidance Counselor helps students identify, prepare for, and enter technical career pathways by providing specialized academic, career, and personal counseling. They create career plans, foster employability skills, connect students with industry-recognized credentials, and facilitate work-based learning, such as internships or apprenticeships.

• Academic Support:
  Helping students with study habits, time management, and academic challenges to improve performance.
• Social-Emotional Counseling:
  Providing individual or small-group sessions for personal, social, or behavioral problems.
• College and Career Planning:
  Guiding students with career exploration, course selection, and college applications.
• Crisis Intervention:
  Addressing immediate student needs regarding mental health, safety, or trauma.
• Collaboration:
  
  Working with teachers, parents, and administrators to support student success.
• Record Management:
  Maintaining accurate, confidential student records and handling referrals.
• Guidance Curriculum:
  Teaching topics such as anti-bullying, drug awareness, and social skills.

Under limited supervision, plans, supervises and provides professional guidance services designed to help each student establish a strong academic, social, emotional and physical foundation so that he may be successful in school and life in the future. Provides prevention, intervention and crisis counseling services, and personal and academic support and assistance to students as appropriate. Ensures the maintenance of accurate, up-to-date and confidential student records.

• Aids students in course and subject selection; obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and to classes studying occupations.
• Assists students in evaluating their aptitudes and abilities through the interpretation of individual standardized test scores and other pertinent data, and works with students in evolving educational and occupational plans in terms of such evaluation. Helps students evaluate career interests and choices.
• Supervises the preparation and processing of college, scholarship and employment applications.
• Plans guidance field trips to schools, colleges and industries.
• Guides students in their participation in school and community activities.
• Conducts individual, small- and large-group, and classroom guidance counseling sessions as needed.
• Works to discover and develop special abilities of students.
• Works to resolve students’ educational handicaps.
• Works with students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related to such problems as home and family relations, health and emotional adjustment, etc.
• Provides crisis intervention for students in immediate need.
• Consults with parents, principals, nursing staff, teachers, school psychologists, special service personnel, and outside experts on individual cases as necessary.
• Makes referrals to other agencies and service providers as appropriate.
• Plans and/or participates in staff orientation and staff development activities.
• Provides in-service training in guidance for teachers and familiarizes the staff with the range of services offered by the student personnel services department.
• Advises administrators and faculty on matters of student discipline.
• Takes an active role in interpreting the school’s objectives to students, parents and the community at large; interprets the guidance program to the community.
• Organizes and conducts an annual "career day."
• Ensures the maintenance of accurate, up-to-date and confidential student records; documents all counseling services and referrals performed; maintains confidentiality as required.
• Provides necessary student information to colleges and potential employers; makes recommendations to colleges for admissions and scholarships.
• Plans and administers the department budget;…