School Counselor

School Counselor

St. Mary's County Public Schools District Wide - Leonardtown, Maryland Open in Google Maps

This job is also posted in St. Mary's County Public Schools, Maryland

Job : 5467999

Final date to receive applications: Oct 15, 2026 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Posted: Dec 11, 2025 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Release Date: December 11, 2025

Final date to receive applications: October 15, 2026

St. Mary's County Public Schools has recently adopted a Teacher Candidate Assessment. Once you submit your application, you will receive an email to complete the Teacher Candidate Assessment as part of your application package.

Position:
School Counselor

This is a professional position to provide students with a school counseling program that promotes academic, career, and social/emotional development and academic achievement outcomes.

• Ability to professionally relate to and collaborate with co-workers, students, and community members
• Ability to understand and maintain confidentiality
• Ability to use technology effectively to complete tasks
• Ability to report to work daily and on time
• Ability to organize, supervise, coordinate and establish priorities of tasks to be completed
• Ability to work independently in the absence of detailed instructions and to follow complex oral and/or written instructions
• Ability to communicate orally or in writing, courteously and tactfully, with staff, students, parents, and the community in a timely manner
• Possess excellent time management skills and the ability to take initiative and make decisions within assigned responsibility in a challenging, fast-paced professional environment and be flexible in work responsibilities and hours
• Possess knowledge of the programs, policies, and procedures of the St. Mary's County Public Schools
• Possess an in-depth knowledge of the ASCA Comprehensive School Counselor program

• Delivers a developmental school counseling program (K-12) to students to include: individual and group counseling, and classroom guidance
• Provides career, social/emotional, and academic development to students in accordance with ASCA professional standards
• Consults with staff and parents
• Connects students with services provided through the local school district and community agencies, and remains aware of state laws and local district policies related to students with special needs, including limits to confidentiality and notification to authorities as appropriate
• Facilitates short-term groups to address students’ academic achievement, postsecondary and career exploration, and social/emotional well-being
• Informs parents/guardians and school administration when a student poses a serious and foreseeable risk of harm to self or others
• Collaborates as needed to provide optimum services with other school and community professionals with legitimate educational interests (e.g., school nurse, school psychologist, school social worker, speech-language pathologist), following all local, state, and federal laws
• Collaborates with all relevant stakeholders, including students, school faculty/staff, and parents/guardians, when students need assistance, including when early warning signs of student distress are identified
• Provides a list of outside agencies and resources to students and parents/guardians when students need or request additional support
• Assists students, through individual and small group sessions, to understand and accept themselves and others, resolve conflicts, overcome crisis situations, etc.
• Coordinates and implements student career development in conjunction with the school counseling program
• Provides culturally responsive counseling to students in a brief context
• Provides…