Elementary School Counselor

Elementary School Counselor

A vacancy exists for the  school year for an Elementary School Counselor within the Norristown Area School District located at Marshall Street Elementary School. Sign On Bonus for new to the district employees (In addition to Salary): $3,000

Qualifications:

• PA Certification in Guidance and Counseling
• Experience working with Kindergarten students preferred.
• Spanish Speaking preferred
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations
• Ability to write reports and business correspondence
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables
• Bilingual in Spanish Preferred

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Counsel at strategic intervals with students who are having academic, behavioral, and/or social-emotional problems
• Select and administer special purpose tests designed to yield information helpful to the student/counselor
• Assure that each student has the benefit of placement services – either from the individual counselor or by cooperative arrangement within the pupil personnel team
• Assure that a system of student personal and educational records is maintained and updated periodically
• Coordinate the maintenance and growth of a library of student guidance information and materials: personal, social, occupational, and educational
• Ascertains that parents of students who have been systematically identified as having academic, behavioral, and/or social-emotional problems are informed concerning the problems and that they are invited to cooperate with the student, the counselor, and the school toward a solution to the problem(s)
• Establishes and maintains parental awareness of the guidance function, its place, and its importance by periodic and continuing use of newsletters, brochures, and other communication techniques
• Meet periodically with administration and staff to improve intra-building communication concerning general understanding and awareness of student's needs, student characteristics, and the central place of those factors in all professional planning
• Communicates the needs of individual students to appropriate professional personnel, when those needs become apparent
• Alerts the professional staff to the need for, and preparation for, identification of students who have educational, emotional, or social problems, or who appear to be inclined toward such problems
• Cooperates with building administration as it plans and conducts student orientation programs
• Establishes and maintains effective liaison relationships with community agency resources
• Collaborates with school team to analyze data and determine appropriate interventions
• Conduct risk/threat assessments for students in need
• Facilitate, conduct, and assist in the implementation of FBAs and PBSPs for students

Salary

Schedule:

Experience calculated per contract agreement not to exceed step 10

Bachelor's - $62,663- $78,539 (step 10)

Bachelor's + 24 - $67,760- $87,165 (step 10)

Master's - $72,133- $95,070 (step 10)

Master's + 15 - $75,276- $99,400 (step 10)

Master's + 30 - $78,419- $103,698 (step 10)

Master's + 45 - $78,944- $104,289 (step 10)

Doctorate/Master's + 60 - $79,469- $104,848 (step 10)