School Counselor

SCHOOL COUNSELOR

Job Description: School Counselor

Location: Elementary

Immediate Supervisor: Building Principal

Work Schedule: 200 Days

Pay Grade: Teacher Scale

Special Requirements: None

FLSA Status: Exempt

Holds a valid Virginia Postgraduate Professional License with a School Counselor endorsement.

Holds a Master's Degree, from an approved school counselor education program or is a current LPC or LCSW

Job Goal: To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational, occupational, and life plans that hold promise for their personal fulfillment as mature and responsible men and women.

Performance Responsibilities:

1. Assists students to achieve school success and develop skills to engage in life ready learning.

2. Counsels students (individual and group) in the areas of academic, career, and social/emotional issues.

3. Provides programs, activities, and services which focus on helping children experience healthy academic and social growth.

4. Works to discover and develop special abilities of students.

5. Introduces and educates students new to the school on all academic, extracurricular, and athletic opportunities including clubs, special interest groups, and community resources.

6. Assists students to successfully use interpersonal and intrapersonal skills.

7. Remains readily available to students so as to provide counseling that will lead each student to increased personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity.

8. Works with students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related to peers, family relations, health, social and emotional adjustment.

9. Advises students in their participation in school and community activities.

10. Maintains student records and protects their confidentiality. May initiate, assemble, maintain, and interpret accurate health records, attendance records, cumulative progress records, activity records, and uniform transcript records for assigned students.

11. Conducts small group meetings, lessons, and presentations on topics of need based on survey data.

12. Works with teachers and other staff members to familiarize them with the general range of services offered by the student personnel services department, and to improve the educational prospects of individual students being counseled.

13. Takes an active role in interpreting the school's objectives to students, parents, and the community at large.

14. Interprets the School program to the community.

15. Arranges for tutors and summer school work.

Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.