School Counselor High School
School Counselor High School
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Job Description
Job Overview
To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational occupational and life plans appropriate to their age/maturity level leading to their development as productive citizens; to help students develop their potential to live full useful lives.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Works to resolve students educational handicaps; works to discover and develop special abilities of students; works to prevent students from dropping out of school
- Helps register students new to the school and orients them to school procedures and the schools varied opportunities for learning; provides assistance to students in course and subject selection; maintains student records and protects their confidentiality
- Assists students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related to such situations as home and family relations peer relations health and emotional adjustment; is available to students to provide counseling in such areas as personal growth selfunderstanding and maturity
- Conducts small group counseling on studentselected and counseloridentified topics such as study skills social skills anger management selfesteem changing families and grief
- Obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and to classes studying occupations; helps students evaluate career interests and choices; may organize and conduct career day
- Provides crisis counseling when needed for prevention intervention and followup with referrals when necessary to community resources
- Offers inservice training in school counseling topics for staff; collaborates with administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline developmental issues and identifying significant behaviors such as suicide selfharm and depression
- Takes an active role in interpreting the schools objectives to students parents and the community at large; confers with parents whenever necessary
- Performs other related work as assigned
Qualifications
Education
Masters degree from an accredited college or university and completion of an approved school counseling program
Experience
Successful fulltime teaching or school guidance and counseling
Licenses/Certifications
Eligibility for appropriate licensure
*An active Licensed Professional Counseling (LPC) license issued by the Virginia Department of Health Professionals (DHP) may be considered in lieu of these requirements
Reports To: Principal.
FLSA Status: Exempt
Months/Days/Hours: 11 Months/ 212 Days/ 7.5 Hours
Salary Level: Licensed
Employment Type
Full-Time
