Counselor - FTE; Specifically ELL students

Henry Clay High School Counselor - 0.5 FTE (Specifically working with ELL students)

Fayette County Public Schools HENRY CLAY HIGH SCHOOL - Lexington, Kentucky Open in Google Maps

Job : 5908472
Final date to receive applications: Sep 14, 2026 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
Posted: Aug 31, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)
Starting Date: To Be Determined

Job Class Code: 1050

Position Type:
Salary

Job Type: Certified

Pay Grade:
Salary calculations are based on verified education and related experience levels

Reports To:

Superintendent’s Designee

Supervises: N/A

Work Calendar Name: 10.5 month salaried

Days in work calendar: 209

To provide the best functional guidance program possible under the direction of the principal, the Associate Director for Pupil Personnel and Guidance Services, and other administrative personnel.

• Provides counseling services using his/her competencies and professional knowledge in an effort to assist the student to:
• understand and accept himself as an individual, thus leading to development of self-awareness
• develop personal decision‑making competencies that are important to the decision‑making process
• to develop the ability to resolve problems
• counsels parents to assume responsibility for their decisions and the consequences resulting from them.
• Assists in providing student appraisal procedures by:
• organizing, developing, collecting, studying, and using pertinent appraisal data as bases for stimulating the intellectual, career, and personality development of each student;
• interpreting the implications of appraisal data to teachers and administrators;
• helping teachers develop competencies in student appraisal procedures;
• working with school administrators to develop conditions conducive to the operation of an effective program of student appraisal procedures.
• Assists in providing informational procedures by:
• organizing, collecting, disseminating, and interpreting pertinent educational and occupational information for use by students, parents, and school staff.
• developing suitable plans and procedures for effective group guidance activities;
• planning with teachers for the development and use of units of instruction that relate to the goals of guidance;
• developing student competencies in using information more effectively to attain their personal goals.
• Assists in procedures concerning realistic placement of students considering his interests, stage of development, and program offerings by:
• participating with the school staff in providing accurate and proper grouping procedures for all students;
• helping students in making informed choices of subjects that relate to his future goals;
• identifying school related and community related activities in keeping with student interests and encouraging student participation in those activities.
• Assists in providing referral services for students by:
• utilizing special services available through the Department of Pupil Personnel and Guidance Services and the Department of Instructional Improvement Services that relate to all special needs of students;
• utilizing special services available through the various community agencies;
• assuring accuracy and completeness of data that accompanies the request for referral services;
• making parents aware of the available referral services and encourage utilization of these services whenever it seems appropriate;
• encouraging the development and/or extension of community agencies for meeting special student needs that are not already adequately met.
• Assists in providing evaluation and research data by:
• developing suitable plans and procedures for continuous evaluation of the effectiveness of the work of the counselor;
• developing suitable plans and procedures for continuous evaluations of the effectiveness of the total guidance program;
• cooperating with local, state, federal, and university-sponsored guidance research studies when appropriately related and properly coordinated.
• Performs certain other tasks that are supportive and complementary to the total guidance program in the school by:
• participating in programs of orientation for students, being especially concerned with articulation;
• providing and receiving…