Certified School Counselor Job Kissimmee area,Florida USA,Education / Teaching

Calling all School Counselors!!

Richard Milburn Academy seeks a School Counselor (9-12).

Interested applicants should submit their resume and an employment application. Please contact Mr. Sands with questions at .

Job Purpose

Responsible for planning and implementing a Comprehensive School Counseling Program to ensure all students graduate high school with a post‑secondary plan.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Design and implement a data‑driven, comprehensive school counseling program for all students to address barriers to student learning.

Spend a minimum of 80 percent of time providing direct and indirect services and 20 percent in program planning and school support activities.

Direct services include, but are not limited to, school counseling core curriculum, individual counseling and student planning, classroom lessons, small group counseling, and preventative and responsive services.

Indirect services on behalf of students include, but not limited to, referrals for additional assistance and consultation/collaboration with parents, teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders to create a learning environment promoting educational equity, access, and success for every student.

Deliver programs that promote students’ development of essential mindsets and behavior standards including, but not limited to, learning skills, social skills, self‑management skills, and college/career readiness skills.

Review and disaggregate student achievement, attendance, and behavior data to identify and implement interventions with current knowledge of grade level promotion and retention criteria (HIGH SCHOOL – graduation requirements).

Use school data to identify and assist individual students who do not perform at grade level and do not have opportunities and resources to be successful in school.

Create yearly, data‑driven goals that advance student outcomes in areas of academic, social/emotional, and college/career development.

Use the skills of leadership, advocacy and collaboration to create systemic change to improve the academic, social/emotional, and post‑graduate success of all students.

Conduct credit checks with students and monitors at‑risk students to ensure on‑time graduation.

Act as a system change agent in collaboration with the school leadership team to ensure a safe, supportive, and respectful school climate that promotes the social/emotional and academic development and success of all students.

Foster family and community partnerships to support the social/emotional, academic and career development of all students.

Infuse cultural competence, ethical and professional competencies in planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating the comprehensive school counseling program.

Provide preventative education and skill building along with counseling for students during times of transition, separation, heightened stress, and critical change.

Use appropriate responses and a variety of intervention strategies to meet the needs of the individual, group, or school community before, during, and after crisis response.

Support the continuum of mental health services, including prevention and tiered intervention strategies, and collaborate with both school‑based and community mental health providers to enhance student success.

Develop and communicate a school counseling mission statement that is specific, concise, clear, and comprehensive, describing a school counseling program’s purpose and vision of the program’s benefits for every student in alignment with the school, district, and state missions.

Use student data to demonstrate a need for systemic change in areas such as course enrollment patterns; equity and access; and achievement, opportunity, and/or information gaps.

Advocate for student equity and access to a 21st‑century education that fosters college and career readiness and promotes post‑secondary success.

Analyze and report outcomes of the school counseling program and goals, which are presented in the context of the overall school and district performance.

Utilize technology effectively and efficiently to plan, organize, implement, and evaluate the comprehensive school counseling program.

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