Career Counselor

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full time kittrell, nc, us

10 days ago requisition

salary: $45,000.00 annually

reports to the cpp and counseling manager and is a salaried, exempt position. Responsible for counseling students in all aspects of center life, e.g., personal, and social development, vocational and educational training. Demonstrates on-going commitment to preparing young people for the workforce by modeling, mentoring, and monitoring excellence in the eight career success standards of: workplace relations and ethics; information management;

communications; multicultural awareness; personal growth and development; career and personal planning; interpersonal skills and independent living.

• demonstrates and abides by covenant learning center values and operating principles.
• actively collaborates with all other departments to best meet the needs of each student.
• assess and evaluate continuously those students assigned to them on both formal and informal levels.
• provides assistance to students in continuing their education their education or entering into additional training; and in connecting with community services necessary for successful transition from school to work.
• documents minimum of two monthly student contact counseling sessions for minors and one counseling session for adult students. Encourages adult students to sign permission forms to counselor to contact them in the student's behalf. Frequency is adjusted for students on probationary status or with demonstrated need for more support.
• esp and my pace reviews are conducted. Information is reviewed and updated as needed. This review is documented in accordance with established time frames in the prh.
• assists students in setting short and long-term goals, identifying strengths and career challenges and resolution of personal issues affecting career readiness.
• completes ongoing assignments given by the counseling and all other program administrative personnel.
• submits written student reports/evaluations as needed to outside agencies, referrals to mental health consultant, review boards, or at the center director's request.
• participates in joint sessions with resident advisors and the center mental health consultant. Reviews student records and completes special needs requests for mental health or additional specific counseling needs.
• co-facilitates small group social skills sessions including employability skills, career success standards, and covenant learning solutions values.
• collaborates with residential staff at least once monthly. Contact frequency will change as directed, or as individual circumstances require.
• develops close working relationship with the center mental health consultant.
• participates in all phases of career management team decisions. Assesses students' transitional support needs and develops strategies to meet identified needs.
• provides training to center staff on related counseling techniques.
• participates in student orientation and development of employability plans for students.
• performs retrieval tasks; grants and verifies leaves and passes per prh and center director mandates. Enters appropriate information in cis.
• tracks and manages projection data, updating weekly to ensure that students are moving as predicted in shop. Works with academic manager to identify and solve problems of academic concern.
• conducts intake interview for new enrollees within 48 hours of on-boarding.
• counselors will routinely monitor their students' attendance as per department protocols; address conduct issues, arrange for staffing and/or other interventions to address below expectations performance.
• is assigned counselor on duty for the weekends in a rotational order.
• provides counseling-related assistance to all other staff functions within the center.
• attends required staff training sessions.
• clearly communicates and consistently models appropriate css and employability skills including personal responsibility and computer fluency.
• maintains accountability of staff, students, and property,…