Certified ESA School Counselor 1.0
Certified ESA School Counselor 1.0
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Job Description
POSITION: Certified ESA Elementary Level School Counselor 1.0 FTE
LOCATION: Mount StuartElementary School
REPORTS TO: Building Principal
Purpose
- Assisting students in establishing and attaining personal social and educational goals which are acceptable and attainable and providing assistance in developing plans for achieving these goals.
- Help lead implement and support the MTSS framework both academically and behaviorally.
Responsibilities
- Guide Proactive groups that may include SEL skills on the playground
- May help guide Playworks Junior Coach Model for 4th and 5th grade students
- Can collaborate with team to design and implement school wide character education including monthly assemblies.
- Participating in providing intervention support services in a team approach for student staff and parents.
- Teaching skills in the classroom or other group settings concerning coping social norms physical and emotional survival mediation multicultural awareness and problem solving.
- Assisting the principal in identifying and resolving student issues and disciplinary problems.
- Providing counseling to students who have disciplinary and/or attendance problems.
- Providing assistance with meeting the needs of special education students and those with 504 plans.
- Participating in multidisciplinary assessments for areas such as academic intellectual learning styles behavioral and social/emotional/health needs.
- Providing staff and parent training in areas such as intervention techniques learning types behavior management instructional approaches attention deficits atrisk characteristics drugaffected children child development and parenting skills.
- Providing crisis intervention and management support to students staff and parents.
- Providing effective evaluation of student needs and coordinating referrals for services to the appropriate specialist or community agencies.
- Consulting and collaborating with parents school staff and outside agency personnel regarding mental health behavioral social/emotional and educational concerns and their implications and effective means of intervention and making home visits as needed.
- Evaluating and interpreting student records and ensuring that they are maintained per state and federal regulations.
- Developing and maintaining professional competency through inservice education coursework or professional growth activities.
- Serving on staff committees as required or as assigned by the principal.
- Performing other duties as assigned.
Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Demonstrated ability to handle confidential matters in an ethical manner.
- Demonstrated knowledge understanding and acceptance of the various recommended components of a complete counseling program as prescribed by the ASCA Model of Counseling.
- Demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships and interact successfully with all school district staff and students.
- Demonstrated understanding of developmental stages and needs of elementary level students.
- Demonstrated ability and desire to work effectively with student groups of varying sizes staff and parents.
- Demonstrated ability and desire to work with colleagues in the development and facilitation of prevention programs as well as programs to promote academic success.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently take initiative and accept the responsibility of providing effective leadership in a fastpaced environment.
- Demonstrated ability to problem solve and provide logical solutions in complex situations.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated high level of computer proficiency and application of technology.
- Demonstrated ability to produce and maintain accurate records.
- Demonstrated ability to remain flexible to change in assignment or situations.
- Bilingual skills preferred
Educational/Vocational Preparation Occupational Certificates/Licenses
- Washington State teaching certificate appropriate to assignment. Endorsements
Special certification and/or license required for specific assignment.
- Must qualify to work in the proximity of children under the conditions of a WSP/FBI background check
Preferred Education and Experience
- Second language or language acquisition background or abilities preferred
- Student cultural and economic diversity experience preferred
- Bilingual Spanish/English preferred
Acknowledgment
- This Job description is intended to provide an overview of the requirements of the position. As such it is not necessarily allinclusive and the job may require other essential and/or nonessential functions tasks duties or responsibilities not listed herein. The District reserves the right to add modify or exclude any essential or nonessential requirement at any time with or without notice. Nothing in this job description nor by the completion of any requirement of the job by the employee is intended to create a contract of employment of any type.
- Applicants interested must follow the application procedurescarefully. Consideration will only be given to fully completed application files.
- Minorities and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
- Applicants of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
BENEFITS:
- Health insurance benefits for employees working 630 hours or more per year include medical dental vision life and longterm disability plans through the School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB).
- School employees Washington State Health Care Authority
- Retirement benefits provided through the WA State Department of Retirement Systems (DRS).
- State of Washington: Department of Retirement Systems
- Full time positions are 7 hours per day for 180 days.
- 180 Day Employees Paid leave benefits to include 12 days of sick leave and 3 personal leave days
- Salary based on the current EEA salary schedule
Ellensburg School District does not discriminate in any programs or activities on the basis of sex race creed religion color national origin age veteran or military status sexual orientation gender expression or identity disability or the use of a trained dog guide or service animal and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination: Title IX Coordinator and Section 504 Coordinator Rhonda Schmidt ; Civil Rights Coordinator
1300 East Third Avenue Ellensburg WA 98926.
Employment Type
Full-Time
