Job Overview
To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational, occupational, and life plans appropriate to their age/maturity level leading to their development as productive citizens; to help students develop their potential to live full, useful lives.
Roles and Responsibilities
Works to resolve students' educational handicaps; works to discover and develop special abilities of students; works to prevent students from dropping out of school Helps register students new to the school and orients them to school procedures and the school’s varied opportunities for learning; provides assistance to students in course and subject selection; maintains student records and protects their confidentiality
Assists students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related to such situations as home and family relations, peer relations, health, and emotional adjustment; is available to students to provide counseling in such areas as personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity
Conducts small group counseling on student-selected and counselor-identified topics such as study skills, social skills, anger management, self-esteem, changing families, and grief
Obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and to classes studying occupations; helps students evaluate career interests and choices; may organize and conduct career day
Provides crisis counseling when needed, for prevention, intervention, and follow-up, with referrals, when necessary, to community resources
Offers in-service training in school counseling topics for staff; collaborates with administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline, developmental issues, and identifying significant behaviors such as suicide, self-harm, and depression
Takes an active role in interpreting the school's objectives to students, parents, and the community at large; confers with parents whenever necessary
Performs other related work as assigned
Qualifications
Education
Master’s degree from an accredited college or university and completion of an approved school counseling program
Experience
Successful full-time teaching or school guidance and counseling
Licenses/Certifications
Eligibility for appropriate licensure
*An active Licensed Professional Counseling (LPC) license issued by the Virginia Department of Health Professionals (DHP) may be considered in lieu of these requirements
Reports To: Principal
FLSA Status: Exempt
Months/Days/Hours: 11 Months/207 Days/ 7.
5 Hours Per Day
Salary Level: Licensed
Salary Scale: https://www.
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