Guidance Counselor

Job Description

Reports to:

Principal and/or Counseling Supervisor or Coordinator of Virtual Learning (if assigned to the Virtual Learning Program).

Supervises:
May coordinate and direct activities of counselor aides and clerical assistants.

Purpose:

To help all students develop skills in the areas of personal-social growth, educational planning, and career and vocational development.

• Program Planning – The school counselor establishes the school‑counseling program and develops activities and resources to implement and evaluate the program. The school counselor involves other school staff in making decisions about the school counseling program.
• Counseling – The school counselor provides individual and group counseling services to meet the developmental, preventive, and remedial needs of students.
• Consulting – The school counselor consults with students, parents, teachers, and other school community personnel to assist in meeting the needs of students.
• Coordinating – The school counselor coordinates all counseling services for students and assists with the coordination and implementation of student services in the school. The counselor also assists teachers with the Guidance Curriculum.
• Student Appraisal – The school counselor accurately interprets test results and other student data. The counselor also assists teachers with the educational placement of students by using appropriate educational assessment strategies.
• Professional Practices and Development – The school counselor adheres to ethical standards of the counseling profession and abides by the laws, policies, and procedures that govern the schools. The counselor also participates in professional associations and upgrades professional knowledge and skills when needed.
• Learning Management System for Online Program – All online courses are taught using the Guilford County Schools Learning Management System. Counselors assigned to the Virtual Learning Program are expected to attend professional development trainings in order to be proficient in the use of the management system.

Bachelor's degree in a related field with a Master's degree in counseling or any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

Must be licensed by the State of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in counseling or able to obtain licensure in this area.

• Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, typewriters, copiers, calculators, etc.
• Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• Light work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree.

• Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics of data, people or things.

• Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments or directions.

• Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, press releases, etc.
• Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, etc., using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style.
• Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence.

• Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

• Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions.
• Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently using…