School Counselor

Job Title:School Counselor

Location:Apache Junction High School

Work Calendar: 196 days

Reports to: Principal

Salary Range:$45,785 to $79,317 * *Salary based on education and experience

Job Goal: By utilizing leadership, advocacy and collaboration, school counselors promote student success, provide preventative services and respond to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that address academic, career and personal/social development for students.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree
• AZ Department of Education Counselor Certificate
• AZ IVP Fingerprint Clearance Card
• Preferred 3 years of experience

Core Job Functions:

• Collects, organizes, and analyzes information about students through records, tests, interviews, and professional sources, to appraise their interests, aptitudes, abilities, and personality characteristics for educational and vocational planning
• Be knowledgeable of scholarships and their affiliated application processes
• Track academic progress toward graduation; counsel those at risk; seek admission to credit recovery programs when appropriate
• Coordinate graduation ceremony and associated activities
• Investigate, determine and assign consequences for conduct referrals, incident reports, and other inappropriate behavior by determining frequency, severity and policy. Contacts parents regarding questions and concerns
• Provide and support prevention programs including violence prevention, conflict resolution, anti-bullying strategies, peer mediation, and character education
• Work with staff to monitor student progress
• Counsel individuals, groups, parents, staff and community regarding concerns about family, friends, school and grades including determine how to problems solve
• Collaborate with and provide referrals to community agencies on behalf of students and families
• Provides crisis intervention as necessary
• As assigned, develop proactive programs to address prevention and behavioral issues
• Serves as a liaison between school and home for children with needs
• Performs staff development and parent education and training as necessary
• Maintain records of counseling
• Implements developmentally appropriate prevention-oriented group activities to meet students’ needs and school goals
• Incorporate into programs the life skills that students need to be successful in the twenty-first century
• Assist all students, individually or in groups, with the developing academic and personal/social skills, goals and plans
• Accurately and appropriately interprets and utilizes student data
• Collaborate with parents/guardians and educators to assist students with education and life planning
• Provide counseling to students with identified concerns and needs
• Implement an effective referral and follow up process as needed
• Accurately and appropriately use assessment procedures for determining and structuring counseling services
• Provide appropriate information to school personnel related to the comprehensive school counseling program
• Participate in professional development activities to improve knowledge and skills and support training
• Member of RTI process on campus
• Develop and coordinate 504 plans
• Use available technology resources to enhance the school counseling program
• Adhere to laws, policies, procedures and ethical standards of the school counseling profession
• Collect and analyze date to guide program direction and emphasis
• Measure results of the comprehensive school counseling program activities and share results as appropriate with relevant stakeholders
• Monitor student academic performance, behavior and attendance and facilitate appropriate interventions
• Crisis team trained and available to assist when needed
• Coordinate State Testing at the site level along with administrators as needed
• Assist with discipline as needed
• Attend school activities
• Meet any additional specific job requirements as indicated by the District or school site

Core Values/Professional Qualities:

• Function effectively as a team member
• Be responsible, reliable and punctual
• Be flexible and adaptable to change
• Positively accepting direction
• Establish and maintain courteous, cooperative working relationships with students, staff and parents
• Direct constructive criticism toward improving the district
• Exercise positive problem solving behavior and conflict resolution skills
• Adhere to the dress code appropriate to the site and job
• Share sensitive student and staff information on a need to know basis
• Be a positive role model for students
• Adhere to District and school rules and procedures

Notice of Non-Discrimination
The Apache Junction Unified School District does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including sexual preference/identity) or disability in its employment practices.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $45,785.00 - $79,317.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Physical Setting:

• Public school

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to Commute:

• Apache Junction, AZ 85120 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Apache Junction, AZ 85120: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $45,785 - $79,317