School Counselor - K-5; Elementary

K-5 Guidance Counselor

Guidance counselors promote student success, provide preventive services, and respond to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that addresses academic, career, and personal/social development for all students.

Major

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Discusses the comprehensive school counseling program with the school administrator.
• Develops and maintains a written plan for effective delivery of the school counseling program based on the NC Comprehensive School Counseling Standard Course of Study and current individual school data.
• Communicates the goals of the comprehensive school counseling program to education stakeholders.
• Maintains current and appropriate resources for education stakeholders.
• Implements developmentally appropriate and prevention-oriented group activities to meet student needs and school goals.
• Assists all students, individually or in groups, with developing academic, career and personal/social skills, goals and plans.
• Collaborates with parents/guardians and educators to assist students with educational and career planning.
• Provides individual and group counseling to students with identified concerns and needs.
• Consults and collaborates effectively with parents/guardians, teachers, administrators and other educational/community resources regarding students with identified concerns and needs.
• Implements an effective referral and follow-up process.
• Provides appropriate information to staff related to the comprehensive school counseling program.
• Assists teachers, parents/guardians and other stakeholders in interpreting and understanding student data.
• Participates in professional development activities to improve knowledge and skills.
• Uses available technology resources to enhance the school counseling program.
• Adheres to laws, policies, procedures, and ethical standards of the school counseling profession.
• Conducts a program audit to review the extent of program implementation annually.
• Analyzes and collects data to guide program direction and emphasis.
• Measures results of the school counseling programs/activities and shares results as appropriate.
• Monitors student academic performance, behavior and attendance and assists with appropriate interventions.

Additional Expectations:

• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Ability to reason, make judgments, and maintain effective working relationships with others.
• Ability to utilize positive human relation skills with all staff.
• Skills in keyboarding with accuracy at the necessary speed for the position.
• Skills in operating a computer with word processing, spreadsheet, and desktop publishing applications.
• Knowledge of office practices and procedures.
• Ability to compile and summarize information.
• Ability to resolve problem situations with sound judgment.
• Ability to demonstrate proper telephone etiquette.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality in matters relating to the school system.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment and initiative in completing work assignments.
• Knowledge of business letter writing memos.
• Ability to compose correspondences independently.
• Ability to work in the absence of supervision.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

Other Responsibilities:

• Performs related work as required.
• Quarterly Assemblies
• Weekly Character lessons
• Intervention
• Weekly teacher meetings
• Field Trips
• Grown-up Talks

Desired Training and Hands-On

Experience:

• A valid North Carolina school counselor's license representing intensive course work in the principals and practices of educational counseling; educational testing and measurement; the organization and administration of guidance services; and the psychology of learning.

Minimum Qualifications or Standards required to perform essential job functions:

• Physical Requirements:
  
  Position requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds of force as frequently as needed to move objects.
• Interpersonal Communication:
  Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information.
• Intelligence:
  Requires the ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagrammatic form.
• Verbal Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow written and oral instructions.
• Numerical Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide.
• Motor Coordination:
  Requires the ability to coordinate eyes and hands to use the keyboard.
• Interpersonal Temperament:
  Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.
• Physical Communication:
  Requires the ability to talk, write and hear.

Terms of Employment:
Salary and work year as established by the Board.