High School Counselor

Guidance Counselor Position

The counselor promotes student success, provides preventive services, and responds to identified students needs by implementing a comprehensive developmental school counseling program that addresses academic, career, and personal/social development of secondary students.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develops and manages a comprehensive school counseling program for secondary students.
• Delivers the counseling curriculum to all students focusing on Academic, Career, and Personal/Social Domains.
• Designs, delivers, evaluates and revises a planned sequential developmentally appropriate program in accordance to district counseling standards and indicators.
• Facilitates the infusion of counseling curriculum activities into classroom curricula to support the developmental needs of students.
• Facilitates instructional process in collaboration with school staff and community resources.
• Counsels with secondary students to promote self-awareness and positive social and academic skills.
• Develops, delivers, and evaluates student planning addressing academic goal setting and transition plans.
• Informs students and parents about pertinent test results, academic programming, behavior intervention strategies, and their implications to the overall academic success.
• Provides individual and group counseling to students with identified concerns and needs.
• Implements a referral process and follow up process to outside counseling agencies and support agencies.
• Provides information to staff and parents to assist them in crises related issues that may effect the school climate.
• Consults and coordinates within district professionals and community agencies, such as school administrators, community based counselors, service agencies, and physicians.
• Manages activities that establish, maintain, support, and enhance the total counseling system.
• Advocates for equal access to programs and services for all students.
• Plans and coordinates programs that are an extension of the counseling program.
• Coordinates parent programs.
• Participates with the administration and faculty as a team member in the implementation of the district testing program.
• Collects and reviews evaluative data to ensure a successful counseling program which links the school counseling program to student academic progress.
• Measures results of the school counseling program activities and shares results as appropriate.

Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in counseling or related field
• Ability to communicate effectively and verbally and in writing
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, parents, and the community
• Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with others, demonstrate self-discipline and initiative, follow state and district guidelines