What are the responsibilities and job description for the School Counselor position at Highspeed Staffing?
Position: School Counselor
Location: Miami, FL
Duration: Full-Time
Salary: DOE
Description
The client is seeking a School Counselor to join its growing faculty for the 2025-2026 school year. Must be comfortable being in person on campus with students.
Responsibilities
Location: Miami, FL
Duration: Full-Time
Salary: DOE
Description
The client is seeking a School Counselor to join its growing faculty for the 2025-2026 school year. Must be comfortable being in person on campus with students.
Responsibilities
- Support students social-emotional development through one-on-one, small-group and whole group instruction.
- Lead social-emotional learning professional development for faculty.
- Provide parent education.
- Support after school and enrichment program for students.
- Understand both the academic and social-emotional needs of gifted and differential learners.
- Manage student support including, but not limited to, speech, OT, and gifted education
- Serve as the central point of contact and lead, coordinate, organize and facilitate parent meetings.
- Gather necessary input from parents, teachers, learning specialists, guidance counselors, and other providers to prepare for parent meetings.
- Monitor student academic and social-emotional progress.
- Lead and coordinate the development of materials designed to meet the academic and social needs of specific learners.
- Be a lifelong learner engaged in professional growth.
- Develop working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and parents.
- Refers students for academic/psychological testing and/or personal and family counseling.
- Responds to faculty requests for assistance with concerns of individual students.
- Coordinate standardized testing.
- Masters degree (or higher) in school counseling/guidance or education.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
- Gifted Endorsement a plus.
- Experience with social-emotional curriculum recommended.
- Ability to work in multiple academic subject areas.
- Strong affinity for helping children succeed.
- Passionate about education.
- Private, independent school experience is a plus.
- Progressive thinker who remains current with best practices.
- Solution focused problem solver.
