Job Title:  School Counselor

Terms of Employment: 9-month contract; 183 days

FLSA Status:  Exempt

Reports To:  Building Principal and Assistant Superintendent- Special Services

Brief Description of Position:  

The primary function of the school guidance counselor is to provide a comprehensive competency-based counseling program focused on the learning, personal/social and career/vocational needs of all students.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in School Counseling
• Must possess and maintain proper Missouri teaching certificate for the area/content to which he or she has been assigned.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Skilled in human relations, leadership and conflict management
• Be able to analyze and offer problem-solving techniques
• Sensitivity to the developmental stages and well-being of all students
• Possess teaching skills to administer developmental guidance curriculum; organizational skills; computer literacy; and knowledge of the developmental guidance philosophy.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Counsel students with learning, physical, social, and emotional problems, through conferences held with students on the basis of teacher, parent, principal, or self-referral.
• Provide planned occupational information programs for the purpose of introducing the student to the world of work.
• Identify students with special needs.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date permanent record folders.
• Consult with classroom teachers, school principal, visiting teacher, school nurse, psychologist, and parents relative to students and their problems.
• Interpret objective data to classroom teachers, parents, and students.
• Work closely with classroom teachers in planning and implementing group guidance sessions based on the developmental needs of all students.
• Arrange case conferences involving classroom teachers, visiting teachers, school nurse, psychologist, parents, principal, and community agencies.
• Acquaint teachers with psychological personnel and services available.
• Act as the liaison between school and community agencies in working on student problems.
• Coordinate the efforts of all specialists working on a case.
• Provide for articulation between the sending school and the receiving school.
• Perform other related duties as requested by the Director of the Special Services.