The posting
Job Title:
School Counselor - High School
Contract Length:
205 days
FLSA Status:
Exempt
Job Summary
The high school counselor is responsible for helping students understand their abilities, aptitudes, and interests in light of the opportunities and demands they encounter now or may face in the future.
Essential Duties
In order to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the duties herein described.
- Counsels students individually and in groups to support problem-solving and decision-making across personal, social, emotional, academic, and career areas.
- Provides for the student's orientation to the high school's offerings, personnel, facilities, regulations, rules, customs, traditions, courses, health, discipline, attendance, school counseling, and other available services.
- Collects, organizes, and disseminates information concerning employment and explains education opportunities beyond the secondary school level.
- Collects and interprets data about students to assist in program planning, occupational and/or educational placement, and student adjustment.
- Provides information for students by assisting them in appraising their interests, aptitudes, abilities, and educational achievements, as well as assisting in program planning using available data so that students can fully utilize their abilities and establish realistic goals in education, employment, and life.
- Assists in the administration of the state-testing programs and administers other tests in accordance with regulations established by the State of Virginia.
- Consults with school staff on: asking recommendations for schedule changes; individualizing instruction; submitting and/or processing referrals to the psychologist; and referring students for specialized services beyond those provided by the school.
- Confers with parents in appropriate individual or group sessions on the: personal, educational, and vocational development of their children; school's total educational program; and post-high school educational and occupational opportunities for their children.
- Cooperates with other authorized services by assisting in group sessions with teachers, students, and administrators.
- Facilitates the transitions of students by: providing for the consistent articulation between middle school, high school, and post-high school experiences; and serving as a community liaison agent.
- Assists the public in understanding the total school program.
- Provides for the placement of dropouts and graduates in the appropriate sequential step, whether vocationally or educationally.
- Evaluates the nature and scope of the school counseling services as outlined above for the efficient, inclusive, and effective functioning of the school counseling department as an integral part of the total educational program.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the school principal.
Minimum Qualifications
- Must possess a Master's degree in a School Counseling.
- Must possess or be eligible for a Virginia Collegiate Professional License or Postgraduate Professional License with an appropriate endorsement as a school counselor.
- Must possess the ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Must possess the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, parents, and the public.
Working Conditions and Physical Requirements
The individual must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone and enter data into a computer; see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone; speak clearly in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone; lift up to 25 pounds; and bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk, and reach overhead.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Duties are normally performed in a school/classroom environment. Duties may be occasionally performed on field trips away from school. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Clearance
Criminal History Background Check, Fingerprinting, Tuberculosis (TB) Assessment
Supervision Exercised
None
Supervision Received
Principal
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The employee will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the principal or appropriate administrator. Accomack County Public Schools reserves the right to update, revise, or change this job description and related duties at any time.
Accomack County Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, military status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy status, political affiliation, creed, marital status, age, or disability in its programs, activities, or employment practices as required by the Title VI, Title VII, Title IX, Section 504, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations.



