School Counselor

POSITION DESCRIPTION

School Counselor

REPORTS TO: Principal and/or Chief Student Services Officer

PURPOSE: To help all students develop skills in the areas of personal-social growth educational planning and career and vocational development. To promote student success provide preventive services and respond to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that addresses academic career and personal/social development for all students. To incorporate the North Carolina State Board of Educations guiding mission that every public school student will graduate from high school globally competitive for work and postsecondary education and prepared for life in the twenty-first century.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree in a related field with a Masters degree in counseling or any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the required knowledge skills and abilities.
• Must be licensed by the State of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in counseling or be able to obtain licensure in this area.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work collaboratively with all school staff to create a positive learning community.
• Implements improvements in counseling services by staying current with research and best practices.
• Create an environment that is inviting respectful supportive inclusive and flexible.
• Responds to and stabilizes crisis situations on an individual and school-wide basis.
• Actively participates in the school MTSS process to assist at-risk and underachieving student populations.
• Coordinates 504 and Homebound services where applicable.
• Participates in and leads professional development opportunities.
• Provides classroom group guidance sessions.
• Discusses the comprehensive school counseling program with the school administrator
• Develops and maintains a written plan for effective delivery of the school counselling program based on the NC Comprehensive School Counseling Standard Course of Study
• Communicates the goals of the comprehensive school counseling program to education stakeholders (i.e. administrators teachers students parents and community/business leaders)
• Maintains current and appropriate resources for education stakeholders
• Uses the majority of time providing direct services through the Guidance Curriculum Individual Student Planning and Preventative and Responsive Services and most remaining time in program management system support and accountability (National standards recommend 80% of time in Guidance Curriculum Individual Student Planning and Preventive and Responsive Services and 20% of time in program management system support and accountability(American School Counselor Association 2005)
• Uses data to develop comprehensive programs that meet student needs
• Provides leadership and collaborates with other educators in the school-wide integration of the guidance curriculum
• Implements developmentally appropriate and prevention-oriented group activities to meet student needs and school goals
• Incorporates into their programs the life skills that students need to be successful
• Assists all students individually or in groups with developing academic career and personal/social skills goals and plans
• Accurately and appropriately interprets and utilizes student data
• Collaborates with parents/guardians and educators to assist students with educational career and life planning
• Provides individual and group counseling to students with identified concerns and needs
• Consults and collaborates with parents/guardians teachers administrators and other educational/community resources regarding students with identified concerns and needs
• Implements an effective referral and follow-up process as needed
• Accurately and appropriately uses assessment procedures for determining and structuring individual and group counseling services
• Provides appropriate information to school personnel related to the comprehensive school counseling program
• Assists teachers parents/guardians and other stakeholders in interpreting and understanding student data
• Participates in professional development activities to improve knowledge and skills
• Uses available technology resources to enhance the school counseling program
• Adheres to laws policies procedures and ethical standards of the school counseling profession
• Conducts a yearly program audit to review the extent of program implementation and effectiveness
• Collects and analyzes data to guide program direction and emphasis
• Measures results of the comprehensive school counseling program activities and shares results as appropriate interventions
• Performs other duties as assigned by the School Administrators

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. 
   MAJOR FUNCTION: Program Planning
   

The school counselor establishes the school counseling program and develops activities and resources to implement and evaluate it.

The school counselor involves other school staff in making decisions about the school counseling program.

1. MAJOR FUNCTION: Counseling
   

The school counselor provides individual and group counseling services to meet the developmental preventive and remedial needs of students.

1. MAJOR FUNCTION: Consulting
   

The school counselor consults with students parents teachers and other school and community personnel to help meet the needs of students.

1. MAJOR FUNCTION: Coordinating
   

The school counselor coordinates all counseling services for students and assists with the coordination and implementation of student services in the school.

The counselor also assists teachers with the Guidance Curriculum.

1. MAJOR FUNCTION: Professional Practices and Development
   

The school counselor adheres to ethical standards of the counseling profession and abides by the laws policies and procedures that govern the schools.

The counselor also participates in professional associations and upgrades professional knowledge and skills when

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS OR STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Physical Requirements:

Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers typewriters copiers calculators etc.

Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift carry push and pull or otherwise move objects including the human body.

Light Work usually requires walking or standing to a significant degree.

Data Conception:

Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data people or things.

Interpersonal Communication:

Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions assignments or directions.

Language Ability:

Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence reports forms press releases etc.

Requires the ability to prepare correspondence reports forms etc. using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation grammar diction and style.

Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise voice control and confidence.

Intelligence:

Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems collect data establish facts and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Verbal Aptitude:

Requires the ability to record and deliver information to explain procedures to follow oral and written instructions.

Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently using a variety of technical or professional languages including counseling terminology.

Numerical Aptitude:

Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the theories of descriptive statistics.

Form/Spatial Aptitude:

Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length width and shape.

Motor Coordination:

Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.

Manual Dexterity:

Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination:

Does not require the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament:

Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.

Must be adaptable to performing under stress and in emergency situations.

Physical Communication:

Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words.

Hearing:

Perceiving nature of sounds by ear.) Must be able to communicate via telephone.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• General knowledge of the ethical guidelines applicable to the position as outlined by professional organizations and/or federal state and local laws rules and regulations.
• General knowledge of the principles of organization and administration.
• General knowledge of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.
• Skill in counseling and motivating students.
• Ability to plan coordinate and evaluate the effectiveness of student programs.
• Ability to coordinate the efforts of support services personnel and outside agencies.
• Ability to use standard office machines and popular computer-driven word processing spreadsheet and file maintenance programs.
• Ability to maintain complete and accurate records and statistics and to develop meaningful reports from them.
• Ability to effectively express ideas orally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments.

Term of Employment: 10 Months

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary Grade: NC School Guidance Counselor Salary plus Local

Supplement

DISCLAIMER

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required of employees for this job.

June 20 2023

August 2025

Camden County Board of Education Camden NC 27921