JRHS Counselor; Goddard

POSITION: Secondary Counselor

EXEMPT STATUS: Exempt

NUMBER OF DAYS: 217

PAY GRADE: Admin/Prof

DEPARTMENT: Guidance and Counseling

REPORTS TO: Principal, Director of Guidance and Counseling

SUPERVISES: No supervisory responsibilities

EDUCATION:

• Hold an appropriate Texas counselor’s certificate, or eligible for a permit for a counselor’s certificate
• Certified at the level of assignment based on a Bachelor’s degree

EXPERIENCE:

Two years of successful classroom teaching experience

School counseling experience preferred

• Consistently exhibits effective communication skills when working with superiors, peers, parents, and students so that individuals have confidence in the counselor’s knowledge, concern, and competence.
• Interprets and shares information about student achievement and progress with parents, teachers, and other professional personnel.
• Works closely with teachers to identify at-risk behaviors in students so that intervention can take place.
• Promptly responds to parent and/or student inquiries through telephone or personal contact.
• Conducts required classroom guidance activities on a regularly scheduled basis.
• Informs teachers, administrators and the public about the guidance program; i.e., community meetings, media presentations, and newsletters.

• Exhibits accurate knowledge of the school program and of ways in which specific students’ needs can and should be addressed through the program, helping to ensure that student placement is most efficacious and appropriate.
• Assists in classroom and/or behavioral management planning with parents and professional personnel.
• Participates and/or contributes information upon request for campus ARD meetings.
• Coordinates a program of new student orientation both at the beginning of school and for transfer students during the school year and assists with their placement in instructional programs as needed.

• Ongoing data collection about students is efficiently conducted, dissemination of information is planned and initiated, and requests for information are honored quickly and efficiently.
• Establishes and/or maintains the necessary lines of communication between home and school to enhance the development of the student.
• Explain and interpret the role of the counselor to school staff.
• Within the bounds of confidentiality, keeps teachers informed of progress made by students who are receiving counseling services, and provides information that will enable the teachers to reinforce the counseling objectives.
• Provides information to the public regarding guidance programs and activities.
• Collects and disseminates guidance materials that are relevant to the educational, vocational, and personal needs of students.

• Students and parents are made to feel welcome by the counselor and are given the kind of academic, personal, and/or vocational counseling that is appropriate or are referred carefully and caringly to other resources so that a variety of student needs and parent concerns can be met.
• Is available and accessible to students in such a way that both planned and casual contact with students is achieved.
• Provides appropriate career and educational counseling for individuals and student groups.
• Confers with parents, students, and teachers regarding student aptitude, achievement, and ability.
• Works effectively with students and/or parents to resolve school-related conflicts.
• Conduct failure conferences with students for six weeks.
• Is knowledgeable about community agencies and coordinates the referral of students to those agencies as appropriate.
• Follows up on teacher and parent referrals for special diagnosis and counseling of students, working closely with other professionals.
• Provides for small group activities to emphasize personal and social development.
• Conduct support groups and/or other activities for at-risk students.
• Conduct special programs for parents of at-risk students.