FTE School Counselor

School Counselor

Iowa City Community School District

Qualifications:

• Hold, at minimum, a master's degree in school counseling
• Iowa certification in school counseling
• Previous counseling experience preferred
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the District may find appropriate and acceptable.

Reports To:

School Principal

Job Goal:
School counselors provide support to students, teachers/staff, and families with the overarching goal to improve student success for ALL students by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program. School counselors work with youth individually and in small or large group settings with a focus on academic and social emotional skills and college and career readiness. Through implementation of a comprehensive school counseling program, school counselors promote access and equity and help create a school culture of success and belonging for all students.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with School Counseling team, and other building staff as needed, to identify and implement evidence based practices within an MTSS process to strengthen the overall school counseling program

• Academic/Career
• Teach prevention education lessons
• Provide individual student academic planning and goal setting
• Collaborate with families, teachers, staff, administrators and community partners geared toward student success
• Analyze data and make data-based decisions to identify and respond to student needs and challenges
• Regularly review data to determine effectiveness of services and make necessary adjustments

• Social-Emotional
• Provide counseling services (individual students/student groups, parents, crisis)
• Support teachers in the classroom delivery of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for students
• Connect families with district and community resources
• Coordinate transition activities for students new to the community and between buildings
• Serve as advocate for students and families
• Facilitate restorative, problem-solving conversations with students, teachers, families and/or staff
• Intervene and provide responsive support services in crisis situations
• Provide skills-based instruction based on student needs identified through data
• Act as a vanguard for sexual harassment, abuse, bullying, inappropriate behavior, and other difficult situations
• Report suspected child abuse to Department of Human Services (DHS)

• Leadership and Professional Growth
• Communicate regularly with students, families, teachers, faculty and staff
• Consult with teachers, families, administrators, staff and outside agency personnel and coordinate efforts to work effectively with students' academic and/or social emotional behavioral health needs
• Communicate accessibility of program to parents and students through mailings, phone contacts, e-mail, classroom presentations, and individual meetings
• Meet regularly with building administrators
• Regularly assess counseling program to determine effectiveness, inform improvements, highlight the positive impacts of a school counseling program on student outcomes
• Participate in leadership roles within the building including, but not limited to, Positive Behavior Intervention Support (PBIS) teams, Professional Learning Committees, Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) teams with a focus on advocacy for students
• Facilitate, co-facilitate, and/or develop staff and family learning opportunities
• Facilitate a positive/safe school climate

Terms of Employment:
Work year as established by the Board of Directors. Salary established by district adopted salary schedules.

Evaluation:
Teaching performance will be evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.