School Guidance Counselor- extended days

School Guidance Counselor- , 25 extended days

Clark County School District GEORGE ROGERS CLARK HIGH SCHOOL 9-12 - Winchester, Kentucky Open in Google Maps

Job : 5849590

Final date to receive applications: Jun 30, 2027 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Posted: Jul 23, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Aug 14, 2023

CLASS

TITLE:

School Guidance Counselor

REPORTS TO: Principal

BASIC FUNCTION:

Provide a functional, comprehensive program of direct services for all students utilizing the expertise gained through professional training in the area of school counseling. These services will emphasize counseling students; consultation with teachers, parents, and other significant adults; and coordinating a variety of activities and functions related to the academic, social, emotional, and physical needs of students.

• Perform individual and group counseling and guidance functions and activities including career and vocational, and social and emotional adjustment counseling.
• Collect, organize, and analyze student information through the use of educational historical data, test results, and the use of interview techniques.
• Appraise student interests, aptitudes, and attitudes utilizing a variety of assessment strategies and techniques.
• Provide information and data to students concerning educational, career, and vocational planning.
• Assist or serve as the coordinator of testing and interpret test data to students, teachers, and parents as needed.
• Assist in the development and monitoring of individual education plans for students with exceptional needs.
• Serve as a resource person on the Special Education Admissions and Release Committee when appropriate.
• Serve as a resource to site and District personnel and members of the school community.
• Meet, confer, and counsel with parents, school personnel, and members of various youth serving agencies in developing alter-native solutions to student educational, social, and emotional problems and concerns.
• Serve as a liaison with social service and youth service agencies in pursuing referral follow up activities.
• Pursue evaluation and research activities to assess counseling and guidance effectiveness.
• Assist in identifying school program needs and participate in developing school instructional programs geared to meet individual pupil needs.
• Assist in the planning, development, and conduct of programs that enhance student educational, career, and vocational opportunities, including speaker programs, student visitation programs, and other related activities.
• Establish, maintain, and monitor a variety of files and records pertaining to student counseling, guidance, and related matters.
• Maintain student cumulative folders.
• Assist in dealing with student behavior management problems and in resolving welfare and attendance concerns.
• Plan, develop, and present, as requested, a variety of management related reports pertaining to site counseling and guidance functions and activities.
• Refer students to the proper authorities for child abuse or neglect when suspicion exists and provide support services to those students as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge of:

• Principles, methods, techniques, strategies, and trends in educational, vocational, career, social, and emotional adjustment counseling;
• Applicable and appropriate aptitude, interest, and achievement appraisal instruments, techniques, and procedures;
• Social service and youth service agencies in the local area;
• Social, emotional, and behavioral characteristics of elementary, middle, and/or high school age students.
• Program evaluation and research techniques, strategies, and procedures; and
• Appropriate curriculum and instructional programs pertaining to students with a variety of aptitudes and varying interests.

Ability to:

• Assist students in effectively analyzing and developing alternative solutions to behavioral, educational, social, and emotional problems and concerns;
• Develop and build academic schedules;
• Conduct, analyze, and effectively utilize a variety of individual and group student testing procedures and instruments;
• Effectively deal with site and District personnel, parents, and social and youth service agencies in resolving student problems and concerns;
• Effectively participate in the planning and implementation of school guidance and curricular programs;
• Communicate effectively in oral and written form and, as required by the assignment, provide information in a second language;
• Understand and carry out oral and written directions with minimal accountability controls;
• Establish and maintain effective District, public, and community relationships; and
• Lift up to 25 pounds.

Master’s Degree in School Guidance Counseling.

Kentucky Certification in School Guidance Counseling.

Salary Table 1

Board Approved: 10/26/2015 Order #316

Position Type: Full-Time

Salary: $46,359 to $87,027 Per Year

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