CGIS Interim (First Semester) School Counselor

Position:  CGIS Intermediate (Grades 6 & 7) Interim School Counselor

• Interim position for First Semester of 2025-2026 School Year
• Start date – July 25, 2025

Qualifications: Current Tennessee Counseling Certification or working toward certification

Application Procedure:

• Complete an online application on the Maryville City Schools website mcsd.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx

• E-mail a cover letter to Dr. Ramona Best, Coulter Grove Intermediate School ramona.best@maryville-schools.org

 Primary Functions:

• Provide a comprehensive counseling program for students in grades four through seven and specifically provide services to meet the needs of assigned students.
• Consult with teachers, staff, and parents to enhance effectiveness in helping students.
• Provide support to other intermediate educational programs.

Illustrative Key Duties:

Guide individuals and groups of students through the development of educational and career plans:

• Provide orientation activities for students and families new to the school; participate in orientation programs for incoming students.
• Guide sixth and seventh grade students to develop career/vocational plans through teaching and supervision of career education activities.
• Provide a mechanism for the systematic and efficient dissemination of current, accurate information needed by individual students and parents as they develop their educational.

Counsel individuals and small groups of students with problems:

• Facilitate and/or conduct structured, goal-oriented counseling sessions in systematic response to identified needs of individuals or groups of students—recurring topics at the high school level may include academic failure, attendance and behavior problems, peer problems, family issues, child abuse, suicide threats and attempts, and sexuality issues.

Consult with teachers, staff and parents regarding the developmental needs of students:

• Participate in student services impact meetings.
• Conduct in-service programs for faculty.
• Conduct or facilitate conferences with teachers, students, and parents.
• Conduct or provide opportunities for parent education programs.
• Assist families with school-related problems.
• Serve as student advocate.

Refer students with problems to appropriate program specialists or community agencies:

• Consult with and coordinate in-district and community agencies, such as school nurses, administrators, school psychologists, service agencies and physicians.
• Consult with parents regarding referrals.

Participate in, coordinate and conduct activities that contribute to the effective operation of the counseling program and school:

• Interpret group test results to faculty and staff.
• Contribute to the school’s goals for enhancing education in the building.
• Establish effective liaisons with the various instructional departments.
• Serve as an advocate for groups or individual students as decisions are made.
• Assist other school staff in the placement of students with special needs in appropriate programs, including gifted education, special education.
• Participate as a team member in administering the testing program.

Participate in and facilitate the intervention team process:

• Assume an active role in designing, implementing, monitoring, and adjusting educational plans for individual students.

Participate in counseling program evaluation and planning:

• Review the counseling program annually with administration and other staff.
• Establish and adhere to the master calendar.
• Document and evaluate counseling practices and learning activities.
• Complete an annual counseling program evaluation.

Pursue professional growth:

• Attend state and locally sponsored staff development offerings
• Read professional journals and attend relevant workshops and conferences sponsored by professional organizations.
• Conduct training for staff and other counselors.

• Ability to perform any physical duties associated with this position (e.g., lifting up to 50 pounds on

  a regular basis, sitting for long periods of time, walking, seeing, standing for extended periods of

  time, etc.).

• FLSA Status

  Exempt