High School Counsellor
High School Counsellor
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High School Counsellor (1.0 FTE) Maternity Leave Coverage
Effective August 28 2025
Summary
Kenneth Gordon Maplewood Elementary School is a centre of excellence that empowers children K-12 with exceptionalities in a passionate progressive and inspiring learning environment. The Counsellor is part of the KGMS Specialty Services team which consists of Counsellors an Occupational Therapist a Developmental Specialist and a Speech and Language Pathologist who collaborate to strengthen the students overall well-being and develop skills that support them in school and beyond. These supports can range from universal classroom support to strengthen Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) skills to goal-targeted interventions in an individual or group therapeutic setting.
Duties may include but are not limited to;
- Provide individual group and classroom sessions that focus on mental health and social-emotional learning.
- Work on a multi-disciplinary team to support the counselling framework and strengthen our school-based practices to support our diverse population.
- Assist parents teachers tutors and colleagues in understanding and responding to the developmental levels of students and their needs/concerns.
- Consult liaise and collaborate with parents/caregivers teachers administrators tutors and other educational and community resource professionals regarding students providing resources and support as required.
- Make appropriate referrals to community programs/resources as needed
- Ability to exercise ethical decision-making and adhere to professional standards of school counselling
- Maintain up-to-date and accurate confidential records
- Ability to plan and conduct professional development for staff regarding mental health equity diversity and inclusion considerations
- Demonstrate continual professional development through workshops/conferences
- Strong knowledge of neurodivergent profiles and clinical counselling techniques that best support their unique brains
- Ability to understand behaviours and develop approaches and interventions that support positive behaviour growth
- Knowledgeable about a diverse range of issues including mental health bereavement and loss transitions gender cultural and social needs
- Knowledge regarding reporting procedures for concerns such as child abuse violence and drug issues
- Knowledge of classroom management techniques
- Knowledge of the DSM-5 and other assessment tools to assess needs follow through with intervention plans make community referrals and manage case confidentiality
- Knowledge and ability to use a variety of counselling theories and techniques to meet the developmental preventive and remedial needs of students
- Knowledge of RTI FBA and SEL
- Masters Degree in Counselling School Counselling or Social Work including a counselling practicum at an educational or CYMH setting
- Advanced coursework in neurodiversity group counselling testing and assessment theories of various psychological and counselling methods/techniques and mental health
- Experience providing individual and group counselling
- Experience working with students of Indigenous/Inuit/Metis
asset
- BC Teacher Certification is an asset with successful classroom SEL teaching experience with students from K to 12
- Criminal Record Check
We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce by ensuring a barrier-free work environment. We welcome applications from all qualified job seekers from BIPOC (black Indigenous and people of colour) persons with disabilities and 2SLGBTQ (persons of all sexual orientations and genders). If you are an applicant with a disability we will work with you to make reasonable workplace accommodations you may need for your best work performance.
How to apply
Please email your expression of interest to Human Resources at
Position open until filled.
Posting date: June 20 2025 Closing date: July 2 2025
Employment Type
Full-Time
