School Counselor

• Position Type:
  Student Support Services/ Guidance Counselor

Building Administration

Works with school staff K-12 to support the social/emotional well‑being of students on individualized education plans, at‑risk students, as well as to work with the school, community, and agency personnel to address student, family and community concerns. Additionally, this position will work closely with school psychologists to support students and families.

• Consultation/collaboration with school teams (Individualized Education teams, MTSS, BIT, SST, teacher/parent staffing).
• Document interventions and provide data into a concise, organized, and educationally relevant evaluative report.
• Coordinate with problem solving school based and community teams to include local preschools.
• Assist team in gathering and evaluating objective data, conducting observations and identifying appropriate services and community resources.
• Collaborate with students, parents, and school personnel to develop and implement prevention, intervention and individualized IEP goals and services as appropriate.
• Conduct specialized individual and group counseling sessions for students on individualized education plans.
• Model and educate school personnel and parents in the use of positive behavioral supports and in the appropriate implementation of academic and behavioral intervention plans.
• Represent TCSD Department of Special Education as a community liaison; attend community partnership meetings.
• Conduct in‑service programs for parents and school personnel.
• Provide assistance with a wide range of human needs accessing community resources.
• Provide career and guidance counseling in addition to general counseling.
• Provide certain diagnostic testing.
• Other duties to be determined and as assigned.

• Master's, specialist, or doctorate degree in Social Work or Counseling.
• Hold or eligible to hold a Wyoming Mental Health Professions License in your field of specialization; and/or a certificate issued by the Wyoming Professional Teaching Standards Board () with an endorsement in either K-12 School Social Worker or School Counselor.
• Evidence of excellent communication, problem solving, and collaborative decision‑making skills.
• Experience providing individual and group therapy (preferred experience in CBT, DBT and Solution Focus/Brief Therapies)

The School District places employees on salary schedules on the basis of:
Wyoming experience.
Out‑of‑state experience up to 7 years.
Degree – Bachelor's, Masters, or Doctorate.
Semester Graduate Credits beyond Degree.

Salary pending approval of the 26/27 Compensation Package; 25/26 package can be found here.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Vision: (which may be corrected) to read small print; view a computer screen for prolonged periods. Hearing: (which may be corrected) to answer telephones; to tolerate noisy conditions.
• Speech: to be understood in face‑to‑face communications; to speak with a level of proficiency and volume to be understood over a telephone.
• Upper Body Mobility: use hands and fingers to feel, grasp, and manipulate small objects; manipulate fingers, twist and bend at wrist and elbow; extend arms to reach outward and upward; use hands and arms to lift objects; turn, raise, and lower head.
• Lower Body Mobility: bend at waist; stoop; sit for prolonged periods of 1 hour.
• Strength: to lift, push, pull and/or carry objects which weigh as much as 15 pounds on an occasional basis; to lift, push, pull and/or carry objects which weigh as much as 25 pounds on an occasional basis.
• Environmental Requirements: encounter constant work interruptions; work cooperatively with others; work independently; work indoors.
• Mental Requirements: read, write, understand, interpret and apply information at a moderately complex level essential for successful job performance; understand,…