School Counselor, Early Childhood

Position Type:
Early Childhood/Counselor

Date Posted:
3/16/2026

Location:
Early Childhood - Wornall campus

Date Available:
August 2026
Early Childhood School Counselor

Begins August 2026 - Full Time / School Year position

Job Summary: The Pembroke Hill School seeks a full-time school counselor to serve students' social and emotional needs in Early Childhood and kindergarten. The successful candidate will be bright, compassionate, energetic, approachable, and passionate about working with students, ages 2 years through kindergarten.


Qualifications and Requirements:

• Certified School Counselor, or experience as a school-based mental health provider: MSW, LPC, LCPC preferred.
• Min 1-2 yrs counseling youth with school counseling experience at the early childhood or elementary (primary) school level, strongly preferred.
• Solid writing skills as well as communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to multi-task effectively.
• Proven ability to listen and connect with children while showing empathy and concern

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with administrators, teachers, parents and outside professionals to holistically support the needs of individual students through intentional prevention and intervention strategies;
• Collaborate with administrators, counseling team, and support staff to develop and implement counseling/wellness lessons;
• Coordinate with families, school administrators, the school nurse, and Lower School Learning Specialists to develop plans of support for students in need; coordinating meetings, accommodations and necessary external referrals
• Team with administration and counseling department to develop student and parent programming on relevant social/emotional health topics
• Participate in school related conferences, training, and committee work
• Educate parents through presentations and programming at early childhood and lower school school parent gatherings
• Assist with coordination of health and wellness programs
• Provide short-term counseling as needed
• Develop relationships with community partners to support counseling curriculum, parent education, and counseling referrals for students
• Serve as a resource and consultant on student mental health for all students ages 2 years - kindergarten.
• Communicate with students' outside clinicians to support students' needs while at school
• Maintain appropriate and detailed records
• Attend faculty meetings, professional learning days, early childhood and lower school leadership meetings and counseling department meetings
• Communicate and partner with parents regarding individual student needs
• Actively support transitions from early childhood to lower school
• Uphold the ethical standards of the school counseling profession
• Seek professional growth opportunities

Schedule: This position is based on the school year (August through May). During the school year, there are three school breaks - one week at Thanksgiving, two weeks in winter and two weeks in spring; plus holidays, personal and sick days. There will also be one additional working day following the last day of school.

Compensation: Compensation will be based on a competitive norm influenced by area and peer schools, using years of teaching experience and the highest completed degree. Transcripts and verification of employment will be required. Benefits include health, dental, life and disability insurance, retirement match (up to 8%), professional development opportunities, PHS tuition remission, free lunch, and more!


About Pembroke Hill School:

Pembroke Hill School is an independent school in Kansas City, Missouri. Pembroke Hill seeks to fulfill our mission by recognizing that diversity, belonging, equity, and inclusion are integral elements of school and community life. Our mission-inspired goal is together, cultivating the best in each, for the benefit of all. Cultivating each to be a global thinker and valuable member of the PHS community poised to acquire the academic and life skills that make a significant difference for all.

Physical Demands for positions:

The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods. For elementary and lower school, sit on the floor for extended periods of time.
• Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids
• Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
• Physical ability to lift, carry and/or hold up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
• Ability to occasionally balance, reach, bend, squat, stoop, or kneel
• Ability to climb stairs, walk, and occasionally run, if required

Pembroke Hill School participates in E- Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. at the time of hire.