School Guidance Counselor

CERTIFIED SCHOOL COUNSELOR

Job Summary: The certified school counselor provides leadership in the school through the implementation of a comprehensive, data-driven school counseling program aligned with the district and school’s mission to promote academic, social/emotional, and college/career development, while ensuring equity and access for all students.

QUALIFICATIONS: Holds or be eligible for a Florida Department of Education certificate in school counseling as specified in Administrative Rule 6A.4.0181, which requires a master’s degree or higher in guidance and counseling or counselor education.

• Demonstrates the ability to design, implement, analyze, and document outcomes of a comprehensive school counseling program based on national and state standards.
• Demonstrates the ability to support student achievement, social/emotional development, and college/career readiness.
• Abides by the American School Counselor Association’s Ethical Standards for School Counselors (updated 2016).
• Demonstrates the ability to work with diverse groups.
• Demonstrates the ability to effectively communicate, both orally and in writing.
• Demonstrates knowledge of technology and software applications appropriate to job responsibilities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

A. Student Success for All

• Designs and implement a data-driven, comprehensive school counseling program for all students to address barriers to student learning and to close the achievement/opportunity gap.
• Spends a minimum of 80 percent of time providing direct services and 20 percent indirect services.
• Direct services include, but are not limited to, school counseling core curriculum, individual counseling and student planning, classroom lessons, small group counseling, and preventative and responsive services.
• Indirect services on behalf of students include, but not limited to, referrals for additional assistance and consultation/collaboration with parents, teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders to create a learning environment promoting educational equity, access, and success for every student.
• Delivers programs that promote students’ development of essential mindsets and behavior standards including, but not limited to, learning skills, social skills, self-management skills, and college/career readiness skills.
• Reviews and disaggregates student achievement, attendance, and behavior data to identify and implement interventions with current knowledge of promotion, retention, and graduation requirements.
• Uses school data to identify and assist individual students who do not perform at grade level and do not have opportunities and resources to be successful in school.
• Creates yearly, data-driven goals that advance student outcomes in areas of academic, social/emotional, and college/career development.
• Uses the skills of leadership, advocacy and collaboration to create systemic change to improve the academic, social/emotional, and post-graduate success of all students.

B. Promoting Positive School Climate

• Acts as a systems change agent in collaboration with the school leadership team to ensure a safe, supportive, and respectful school climate that promotes the social/emotional and academic development and success of all students.
• Fosters family and community partnerships to support the social/emotional and academic development of all students.
• Infuses cultural competence, ethical and professional competencies in planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating the comprehensive school counseling program.
• Provides preventative education and skill building along with counseling for students during times of transition, separation, heightened stress and critical change.
• Uses appropriate responses and a variety of intervention strategies to meet the needs of the individual, group or school community before, during and after crisis response.
• Supports the continuum of mental health services, including prevention and tiered intervention strategies, and collaborates with both school-based and community mental health providers to enhance student success.

C. Leadership and Advocacy

• Develops and communicates a school counseling mission statement that is specific, concise, clear and comprehensive, describing a school counseling program’s purpose and vision of the program’s benefits for every student in alignment with the school, district and state missions.
• Uses student data to demonstrate a need for systemic change in areas such as course enrollment patterns; equity and access; and achievement, opportunity and/or information gaps.
• Advocates for student equity and access to a world-class education that leads to high school graduation and fosters post-graduate success.
• Analyzes and reports outcomes of the school counseling program and goals, which are presented in the context of the overall school and district performance.
• Utilizes technology effectively and efficiently to plan, organize, implement and evaluate the comprehensive school counseling program.
• Uses legal and ethical decision-making based on standards and principles of the school counseling profession and educational systems, including district and building policies.
• Collaborates with school staff in the analysis of student performance data, rigorous goal-setting, and development of effective action plans for improving academic, social/emotional, and post-graduate outcomes for all students.

D. Additional Job Functions

• Follows adopted policies and procedures in accordance with School priorities.
• Assists with State Testing, as needed.
• Performs other duties as specified in local, state and federal rules, laws and statutes.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: From $54,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Physical Setting:

• Charter school

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Salary : $54,000