Hinsdale Elementary School is in search of an experienced school counseling leader with a passion for advancing student advocacy and collaboration in a small rural community. We seek a professional who desires to promote success for all students provide preventive services and respond to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that addresses academic career and personal/social/behavior health development for all students. The general responsibilities of the position include: Assists in developing comprehensive developmental school guidance and counseling plan that is based on student activities resources and time lines to implement the goals and objectives of the comprehensive school guidance and counseling school personnel in the decision-making process related to implementing a comprehensive guidance public awareness initiatives to highlight guidance and counseling program activities services and individual and group counseling for students to meet their remedial preventative and developmental the progress of students in counseling and evaluates the overall effectiveness of the counseling positive human relationships by showing respect for the worth and dignity of all students from all cultural and environmental appropriate information with school personnel parents and community agencies about the needs and concerns of studentsNetworks with community agencies as with classroom teachers to provide a classroom developmental guidance curriculum in the area of personal social educational and career classroom guidance lessons that are developmentally teaching and classroom management strategies that are conducive to the effectiveness of the classroom guidance the nature of consultation services to faculty and parentsHelps teachers and parents meet the specialized needs of students through mutual problem-solving coordinate school-wide testing programs and disseminates results to parents and as Chairperson for the Child Concern with coordination of outreach programs. Examples: Reformer Christmas Stocking Program Red-Ribbon Drug Awareness Week the Elks Club Drug and Alcohol Poster Contest the HES Cross-Age Tutoring professional competencies through in-service educational activities and other professional growth according to the ethical code of the school counseling other duties as assigned by the building Principal.
Elementary School Counselor (2025-2026)
