School Counselor 10 Month for the 2025-2026 School Year
School Counselor 10 Month for the 2025-2026 School Year
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Job Description
200 Day Salary Scale
Pay Grade: Per instructional salary schedule
Period of Employment: 10 months
FLSA Status: Exempt
Supervised by and/or Reports to: School Principal(s)
General Responsibilities:Utilizing leadership advocacy and collaboration School Counselors promote student success provide preventive services and respond to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that addresses academic career and personal/social development for all students
Essential Duties:
(This list is intended solely as an illustration of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude their addition if they are similar to or a logical extension of the position.
Development and Management of a Comprehensive School Counseling Program
- Communicates the goals of the comprehensive school counseling program to education stakeholders.
- Maintains current and appropriate resources for education stakeholders.
- Uses data to develop comprehensive programs that meet student needs.
Delivery of a Comprehensive School Counseling Program
Counseling Curriculum
- Provides leadership and collaborates with other educators in the schoolwide integration of the MCPS Comprehensive Student Services Plan.
- Delivers large and small group lessons as defined in the Comprehensive Student Services Plan.
- Implements developmentally appropriate and preventionoriented group activities to meet student needs and school goals.
- Organize orientation/transition programs and activities between elementary intermediate middle and high school levels.
Individual Student Planning
- Responsible for developing monitoring and revising academic career and personal/social skills goals and plans for all students.
- Utilizing academic career and personal/social skills goals and plans to appropriately place students in academic programs or classes.
- Accurately maintain and appropriately interpret/utilize student data.
- Collaborates with parents/guardians and educators to assist students with educational career and life planning.
Preventive and Responsive Services
- Provides individual and group counseling to students with identified concerns and needs.
- Provide leadership intervention and support when crisis counseling is necessary.
- Consults and collaborates effectively with parents/guardians teachers administrators and other educational/community resources regarding students with identified concerns and needs.
- Refer children and their parents to other appropriate helping agencies or persons within the school providing followthrough and followup activitie
- Conducts home visits to support student needs.
- Implements an effective referral and followup process as needed.
- Accurately and appropriately uses assessment procedures for determining and structuring individual and group counseling services.
System Support
- Provides appropriate information to school personnel related to the comprehensive school counseling program.
- Assists teachers parents/guardians and other stakeholders in interpreting and understanding student data.
- Participates in professional development activities to improve knowledge and skills.
- Actively participates in the Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS) program to include Response To Intervention (RTI) for Behavior.
- Actively participates in RTI.
- Conducts all student reentry meetings and develops a plan for student success.
- Assists in developing a master schedule that meets the needs of all students.
- Uses available technology resources to enhance the school counseling program.
- Adheres to laws policies procedures and ethical standards of the school counseling profession.
- Prepare social history documents including the social behavior checklist for students referred for special education evaluation as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Accountability for the Comprehensive School Counseling Program
- Conducts a yearly program audit to include lesson plan evaluations and a postservice student satisfaction survey to review program implementation and effectiveness.
- Collects and analyzes data to guide program direction and emphasis.
- Measures results of the comprehensive school counseling program activities and shares results as appropriate with relevant stakeholders.
- Monitors student academic performance behavior and attendance and facilitates appropriate interventions.
Requisite Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Knowledge of counseling theories and skills group dynamics and small group processes.
- Demonstrates working knowledge of the ASCA Model.
- Knowledge of K12 instructional programs.
- Knowledge of Virginia Standards of Learning.
- Working knowledge regarding laws concerning student rights and confidentiality.
- Working knowledge of student database systems.
- Thorough knowledge of standardized testing and procedures and interpretation of scores.
- Working knowledge of gifted and special education programs.
- Knowledge of relevant School Board policies and regulations.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to work with administrators colleagues central office and school based staff students parents and community.
- Serve as a role mode
Requisite Education and Experience:
- Masters degree from an approved program in school counseling or a masters degree from an accredited college or university and completed an approved school guidance and counseling program
- Must possess or be eligible for the Virginia Department of Education endorsement in School Counselor.
Physical Requirements:
Must have the use of sensory skills in order to effectively communicate and interact with other employees and the public through the use of the telephone and personal contact as normally defined by the ability to see read talk hear handle or feel objects and controls. Physical capability to effectively use and operate various items of office related equipment such as but not limited to: a personal computer calculator copier and fax machine. Some climbing stooping kneeling crouching reaching standing walking pushing pulling lifting grasping or repetitive motions required.
Manassas City Public Schools assures equal employment opportunities and equal education opportunities for employees and students as required by federal and state orders and laws. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential tasks.
This job description is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements. It is neither intended to be nor should it be construed as an allinclusive list of the responsibilities skills or working conditions associated with the position. Administration reserves the right to modify assign or remove duties as necessary.
Employment Type
Full-Time
