Long Term Substitute Guidance Counselor

Position Type:
Student Support Services/Guidance Counselor

Date Posted:
2/4/2026

Location:
East Haven High School

Date Available:
03/23/2026

Closing Date:
02/20/2026
Position: Long Term Substitute Guidance Counselor
Location: East Haven High School

Reports To: Building Principal

Certification Requirements The successful candidate must hold current CT certification as a School Counselor (068), BA (preferred MA) from an accredited college or university in Social Work or Psychology.

Job Description
To assist all high school students in the developmental processes in intellectual, social and personal growth and to assist high school students in making informed and individually appropriate social, educational and vocational choices.

Salary: This position is full-time for an unspecified length of time. The daily rate is $140.00 per day from day 1-40 and increases to $282.53 per day starting at day 41. There are no benefits
associated with this position.

Responsibilities:

Professional Growth

• Participate in professional growth activities and complete a professional development plan.
• Attend professional conferences and workshops related to the overall guidance program.

Academic Development

• Meet with students prior to and during the registration process, inform the students of classes relative to course selection and assist the administration in the registration and scheduling process.
• Conduct follow-up meetings with students after the master schedule is developed to make any necessary changes in students' schedules.
• Conduct orientation meetings with all eighth grade public and parochial middle school students to provide information regarding class offerings and registration procedures.
• Provide individual counseling for students regarding scheduling upon request of the student or his/her parent/guardian.
• Make recommendations to students regarding class selection that take into consideration the student's abilities, background and interests. The recommendations may be made by means of small group and/or individual meetings or other methods recommended by teachers.
• Meet with students individually or in groups to discuss credits, courses and entrance exams required by colleges and technical schools.
• Advise students regarding the accuracy and completeness of records and credits and perform periodic credit checks from grades nine through 12 with an emphasis on the senior year.
• Provide written contact and telephone calls to parents/guardians of senior students who are deficient in their credit status.
• Provide information to students needing to attend summer programs to make up credit deficiencies.
• Coordinate homebound instruction for students who qualify.
• Assist new, transfer and foreign exchange students in enrollment, registration, class selection, grades in progress and the transfer of credits. He/she shall conduct a screening of cumulative records and/or parent/guardian/student interviews of all students new to the school.
• Evaluate credits from outside sources.
• Be responsible for assisting the administration in the compilation of a course description booklet and the distribution of this booklet to every student in high school.
• Be available for parent conferences in conjunction with the regular school-wide conference.

Personal/Social Development

• Provide individual and/or group counseling in areas dealing with alcohol, tobacco and other drugs/alcohol and other drug addiction (ATOD/AODA) issues, family relationships, financial problems, school attendance and peer relationships.
• Facilitate student involvement in appropriate remedial classes or alternative education programs.
• Participate in multidisciplinary activities for selected students by contacting and meeting with special education staff members. He/she shall contribute information in the areas of academic achievement in regular education classes, professional impressions of the student based on observations and interviews and make available information about the student provided to the district by outside agencies.
• Assist special education staff members, including the School Psychologist, in screening special education referrals by providing background information.
• Act as a referral agent in the regular education staffing by receiving referrals from staff, making contact with the student and possibly the student's parent(s)/guardian(s) and conducting conferences to determine potential outcomes.
• Provide a link between students and appropriate community resources and outside agencies such as adolescent day treatment programs, hospital-based counseling programs and State Protective Services.
• Assist students in alternative education programs by receiving referrals from administrators, teachers, parents/guardians and students.
• Help resolve student/teacher conflicts by meeting with the student(s) and teacher individually or in groups to determine the nature and extent of the problem and to outline possible remedial strategies.

Career Development

• Direct students to provide them with sources of vocational/technical,…