TITLE:

                School Counselor –Elementary

POSITION TYPE:

                Exempt

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

                To assist student overcoming problems that impede learning and to help them in making realistic and practical                        educational, occupational, and life plans that hold promise for their personal fulfillment as mature and

                responsible men and women

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Hold Postgraduate Professional Certificate with an endorsement as School Counselor
• Two years of successful teaching experience at the elmentary level or two years successful experience in school counseling, preferred
• Have demonstrated the professional and personal characteristics necessary for working effectively with students, parents, school personnel and members of the community

REPORTS TO:

                Principal

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Schedule students for classes
• Serve as consultant to administrator on curriculum based issues
• Assist parents/students/teachers on interpretation of test scores and their implication
• Serve as the School Test Coordinator
• Work with students to discover and develop special abilities and talents
• Register students new to the school and orient them to school procedures and the school’s varied opportunities for learning
• Supervise and coordinate at-risk programs for such identified students
• Remain readily available to students so as to provide counseling that will lead each student to increased personnel growth, self-understanding, and maturity
• Counsel/work with students on an individual or group basis in the solution of personal problems related to school, home, family, health, and emotional adjustment
• Plan orientation field trips to feeder schools
• Maintain student records and protect their confidentiality
• Serve as the custodian of all student records and therefore is responsible for all enclosures
• Conference with parents
• Assist in the orientation of new faculty members
• Provide in-services as needed for teachers
• Work with staff members to familiarize them with the general range of services offered by the student personnel services department, and to improve the educational prospects of individual students being counseled
• Advise administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline
• Take an active role in interpreting the school’s objectives to students, parents, and the community-at-large
• Interpret the guidance program to the community
• Serve as a referral resource as well as a consultant to outside agencies and families
• Coordinate homebound instruction
• Arrange for tutors
• Handle withdrawal of students and sending withdrawal records
• Coordinate and make referrals to the visiting teacher on student absences/residency
• Perform intake on special education students
• Coordinate information in crisis situations
• Conduct classroom guidance lessons emphasizing the county’s T.O.P.S. conflict resolution program
• Coordinate ESL students with school board personnel
• Serve on the gifted and talented committee
• Serve of county-wide committees as needed
• Coordinate special education services with the Director of Student Services
• Review incoming records and notify appropriate personnel
• Perform other related duties as assigned

REQUIREMENTS:

                Involves limited physical tasks including lifting, and may involve operation of equipment such as computers,

                copiers, overhead projectors, etc.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:

                10 month extended contract; salary based upon teacher’s scale

EVALUATION:

                Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board’s policy on Evaluation of

                Personnel