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Counselor

Education Service Center 2 Consortium
Taft, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 1/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/9/2025

Professional / Certified - Other (Certified) - Counselor

Job Number 0000760715

Start Date 01 / 06 / 2025

Open Date 12 / 07 / 2024

Closing Date

Job Title : Elementary School Counselor

Exemption Status : Exempt

Reports to : Campus Principal

Workday Calendar : Dependent on campus

Dept. / School : Assigned Campus

Pay Scale : Teacher Salary Schedule $3500 counselor stipend extra days

Primary Purpose :

Plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive developmental guidance and counseling program at assigned campus. Counsel students to fully develop each student's academic, career, personal, and social abilities and address the needs of special population students.

Qualifications :

Education / Certification :

Master's degree in counseling from an accredited college or university

Valid Texas school counselor certificate

Special Knowledge / Skills :

Knowledge of counseling procedures, student appraisal, and career development

Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills

Ability to instruct students and manage their behavior

Ability to present information in one-on-one, small group, and large group situations to students, parents, and district staff

Experience :

Two years creditable experience as a classroom teacher

Major Responsibilities and Duties

Guidance

  • Plan and conduct structured group lessons to deliver district's guidance curriculum effectively and in accordance with students' developmental needs. Collaborate with teachers who teach guidance-related curriculum.
  • Guide individual students, groups of students, and parents to plan, monitor, and manage the student's own educational and career development including creating and reviewing personal graduation plans and providing information about post-secondary opportunities.
  • Use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to counsel individual students, small groups of students, and parents to plan, monitor, and manage a student's own personal and social development. Provide preventive, remedial, and crisis counseling as needed.
  • Serve as an impartial, non-reporting resource for interpersonal conflicts and discourse involving two or more students, including accusations of bullying.

Consultation

  • Coordinate school, home, and community resources and refer students, parent, and others to special programs and services as needed.
  • Work collaboratively to advocate for individual students and specific groups of students.
  • Assessment

  • Interpret standardized test results and assessment data to guide students in individual goal setting and planning.
  • Program Management and Administration

  • Plan, implement, evaluate, and promote continuous improvement of a balanced comprehensive developmental guidance and counseling program that includes guidance curriculum, responsive services, individual planning, and system support components.
  • Advocate for a school environment that acknowledges and respects diversity.
  • Compile, maintain, and file all reports, records, and other documents.
  • Comply with policies established by federal and state law, State Board of Education rule, and board policy. Comply with all district and campus routines and regulations
  • Adhere to legal, ethical, and professional standards for school counselors including current professional standards of competence and practice.
  • Other

  • Follow district safety protocols and emergency procedures.
  • Supervisory Responsibilities : None

    Mental Demands / Physical Demands / Environmental Factors :

    Tools / Equipment Used : Personal computer and peripherals; standard instructional equipment

    Posture : Prolonged sitting; frequent standing, kneeling / squatting, bending / stooping, pushing / pulling, and twisting

    Motion : Frequent walking

    Lifting : Regular light lifting and carrying (less than 15 pounds); occasional physical restraint of students to control behavior

    Environment : Work inside, may work outside

    Mental Demands : Maintain emotional control under stress; may work prolonged or irregular hours

    This document describes the general purpose and responsibilities assigned to this job and is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties that may be assigned or skills that may be required.

    Employee Signature Date

    Received by

    Building / Campus Assigned Campus

    Salary : From 58000.00

    Salary : To 70000.00

    Salary Type Annually

    Technology Literacy E-mail, Spreadsheets, Word Processing, Internet, Databases, PowerPoint

    Subject Area / Teaching Field / Endorsement Counselor

    Additional Job Information

    Salary prorated for 24-25 school year

    400 employer contribution towards health insurance

    vision, dental, cancer and other supplemental insurance available

    Salary : $3,500

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