2025-26 Counselor

South San Francisco Unified School District

The South San Francisco Unified School District (SSFUSD) community includes 15 schools supporting 8,000 students in Daly City, San Bruno, and South San Francisco.

Our mission is that in partnership with our community, SSFUSD will provide exceptional instruction, engaging experiences, and equitable and accessible opportunities and resources to further support our diverse student body so that students are equipped to learn, thrive, navigate their future with purpose, and impact their community.

In February 2024, the School Board for SSFUSD adopted our new Vision and Five-Year Strategic Plan. Educators are at the heart of our priorities - exceptional instruction, engaged students, purposeful partnerships, empowered educators, and equity-centered systems.

The Role

SSFUSD is seeking dynamic, equity-focused, and inclusive counselors to join our school community. SSFUSD refuses to accept that the educational outcomes of students in our district are overwhelmingly predictable based on students’ race, socioeconomics, ethnicity or learning differences. We remain committed to working each day to examine systemic, institutional, and individual biases in order to dismantle systems of inequities that will enable all students to thrive.

As a counselor in SSFUSD, responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Working with staff, students, guidance counselors and school psychologists in providing resources, prevention and intervention services to students and families.
• Keeping confidential records on students in accordance with legal and professional requirements.
• Communicating and consulting with administrators, guidance counselors, staff, and parents/guardians on a discretionary basis (under guidelines of the confidentiality laws) to protect the needs, rights and concerns of students.
• Collaborating and consulting with administrators and staff to implement and monitor behavioral interventions.
• Participating in on-site activities such as: faculty meetings, counseling department meetings, IEPs, 504s, SAT, SSTs and staff development.
• Making referrals to inpatient/outpatient treatment programs, community agencies and mental health professionals.
• Providing individual and group mental health counseling to students; conferring as needed with parents, teachers, and others regarding student mental health needs.
• Providing specific services, including:
• Crisis Intervention, such as:
• Mandated Reporting
• Referring to mental health professionals and/or treatment programs
• Liaising with local law enforcement agencies
• Initiating 5150 assessments
• Participating in crisis response team meetings
• Providing homeless, runaway and foster youth services and support
• Short Term Counseling such as:
• Individual, family and group counseling
• Conflict resolution and mediations
• Additional duties as assigned

Working Conditions

• Environment:
• Classroom and office environment
• Physical demands:
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate standard office and classroom equipment.
• Sitting or standing for extended periods of time.
• Bending at the waist, kneeling or crouching to assist students.
• Hearing and speaking to exchange information.

Requirements

• Education And Experience:
• Masters Degree in Counseling, Psychology, or Social Work with course work and/or experience in adolescent mental health and wellness
• Licenses And Other Requirements:
• Pupil Personnel Services Credential (PPS) or candidate must be currently enrolled in a post-masters PPS program and have a (PPS) Intern Credential
• LMFT/LCSW/LPCC preferred or candidate must possess AMFT/ACSW/APCC number
• Knowledge of:
• Identification, assessment, intervention and referral relative to:
• Teenage depression and suicide
• Mental illness
• Substance abuse
• Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
• Personal and family crisis situations
• Death, dying and grieving issues
• Adolescent issues
• Bullying prevention
• Gender and sexuality identity
• Other crisis intervention
• Trends and practices of the counseling profession.
• Potential barriers to educational progress and student wellness.
• Restorative justice practices
• Applicable laws, codes, regulations, policies and procedures, including mandated reporting.
• Ability to:
• Maintain accurate student records.
• Assemble, organize and prepare data for records.
• Operate standard office equipment including a computer and assigned software.
• Understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Establish and maintain effective working and cooperative relationships with others.
• Maintain appropriate daily, punctual attendance.
• Work under pressure, independently, with frequent interruptions and limited supervision.
• Utilize the District’s Student Information System to locate students, keep conference notes, review student progress, and access student and parent portals.
• Understand, be sensitive to, and respect the diverse academic, socio-economic, ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds, disabilities and sexual orientation of students, faculty, administrators and staff.

Application Requirements

• Updated resume
• Transcripts of your undergraduate degree, and graduate degrees if applicable. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable for application purposes only. Official transcripts will be required if you are extended an offer to work in the district.
• Proof of Pupil Personnel Services Credential or (PPS) Intern Credential and proof of enrollment in a post-masters PPS program.
• Proof of any additional credential, certificate, or authorization if applicable. (e.g. LMFT/LCSW/LPCC, AMFT/ACSW/APCC, etc.)
• Effective January 1, 2025: Under Education Code section 44939.5, you must provide a complete list of all prior employment with any Local Education Agency (LEA), including school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, or state special schools, including part-time and substitute roles.

Please note that if you are extended an offer from SSFUSD, you will also need to complete the following prior to beginning work, including training:

• Provide clearance of TB test, as mandated by California Education code.
• Submit fingerprints for California Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation clearance.

*Please note that this job description is subject to Board review. The details are subject to change upon approval.

To Apply

Please submit your application at: https://app.hirenimble.com/jobs/SSFUSD

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $65,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Salary : $65,000 - $125,000