Counselor The DAY Program
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Job Location:
Alabaster, AL - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
This position is located at the DAY Program. If interested contact the DAY Program directly at .
The DAY Program
JOB TITLE: GUIDANCE COUNSELOR/THERAPIST
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. A bachelors or masters degree from an accredited college or university with a major in guidance and counseling and course work in psychology testing and measurement sociology or education.
- Preferred eligible for a valid teachers certificate with endorsement in counseling and guidance or LPC.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find
appropriate and acceptable.
- Acceptable background check
REPORTS TO: Director
Please note this position is not employed by Shelby County Schools. We are a Shelby County Schools non-profit partner organization.
JOB GOAL: To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist
them in making educational occupational and life plans that hold
promise for their personal fulfillment as mature and responsible men and women.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop and implement an effective school guidance and counseling program.
- Define and interpret the guidance and counseling program to students teachers parents
administrators and community members.
- Coordinate the registration of new students and provide them with an orientation to school
procedures and the schools various opportunities for learning.
- Assist students in developing a middle or high school curriculum plan and provide a method for
documenting and reviewing the plan quarterly.
- Assist in the placement of individual students with special needs in appropriate educational
situations.
- Coordinate the procedure for the security and maintenance of students educational records.
- Develop a method for recording student grades attendance information and other pertinent
educational data.
- Maintain a file of catalogs school profiles and scholarship/financial aid information related
to schools colleges and institutions offering post-secondary educational and vocational
training opportunities.
- Coordinate special programs for students and parents concerning family counseling career choices Vocational Center Tours and related programs.
- Coordinate student pre and post testing pre-GED and GED testing with the schools testing program coordinator.
- Prepare informative reports and materials for the director fellow teachers/counselors students and parents concerning the results of the schools testing program.
- Assist teachers in identifying and interpreting problems that interfere with a students ability
to learn.
- Provide individual and group counseling opportunities that may lead each student to
increased personal growth self-understanding and maturity.
- Provide family counseling opportunities.
- Establish a close working relationship with the Juvenile Probation Officers.
- Establish effective working relationships with employers agencies and other institutions
that may be of use to teachers parents and students.
- Assume responsibility for coordinating appropriate follow-up activities.
- Assume responsibility for individual professional development and for attending appropriate
professional meetings.
- Assume other appropriate duties assigned by the director.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: 184 day contract. Salary and work year set according to proper placement on current salary schedule and school calendar.
EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with
provisions of the Boards policy.
SALARY RANGE: Per Scale/Negotiable
Key Skills
- Project Management Methodology
- Project / Program Management
- Program Management
- Management Experience
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Project Management
- Microsoft Project
- Budgeting
- DoD Experience
- Leadership Experience
- Supervising Experience
- Contracts
