2025-2026 Elementary School Counselor

Are you passionate about working with fourth and fifth graders and making a meaningful impact on their academic and social-emotional growth? Saltar’s Point Elementary is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic school counselor to join our team!

At Saltar’s Point, we focus on the whole student, ensuring that every child feels supported, empowered, and ready to succeed. Our counselor plays a vital role in developing and maintaining strong systems that foster a positive school culture while working closely with both staff and students to build a collaborative and inclusive learning environment.

This position offers the opportunity to lead Enrichment Team meetings, supporting students academically and socially-emotionally through engaging and meaningful activities. Our ideal candidate enjoys having fun, building connections, and creating a safe and supportive space for students to grow. Teaching classes is also an essential part of this role, providing direct instruction once a week to help our 4th and 5th grade students develop the skills they need to thrive.

If you are looking for a dynamic, student-centered environment where you can make a lasting difference, we would love to hear from you! Join us at Saltar’s Point Elementary and become a key part of a school community that values connection, growth, and joy in learning.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties
Our school counselors work with our school teams to provide direct and indirect services to students. The below description represents the key areas of responsibilities - specific other duties may be assigned.

• Provides professional assistance and support to a student or small group of students during times of transition, heightened stress, critical change or other situations impeding student success.
• School counselors recognize and respond to student mental health needs and assist students and families in connecting with community resources.
• Assists students, families and teachers in finding ways to help students develop a positive sense of identity. Identifies and creates peer supports, including problem-solving groups and peer-helper programs to help students increase resiliency and self-determination.
• Supports students in applying social emotional learning strategies and help them identify and remove barriers to learning and developing skills critical for academic achievement.
• Assesses student abilities, interests and achievement to identify when students are struggling.
• Advocates for students at individual education plan (IEP) meetings, system intervention teams, and school attendance conferences.
• Interprets cognitive, aptitude and achievement tests in relationship to achievement while protecting student records and information per state and federal regulations.
• Serves as the 504 case manager for eligible students and partners with them to develop accommodations to support their success and school experience.
• Consults and collaborates with teachers and other educators about building classroom connections and the role of non-cognitive factors in student success.
• Collaborates with assigned Military Family Life Counselors (MFLCs) to identify resources for military-connected families.
• Partners with teachers by scheduling and presenting curriculum lessons based on developmental needs and needs of students identified through data.
• Serves as a part of the school leadership team to analyze disaggregated schoolwide data to identify student issues, needs and challenges.

Minimum Qualifications and Skills

• Successful experience or demonstrated commitment toward working with culturally and racially diverse students, families and communities.
• Possess or qualify for issuance of a valid Washington state Educational Staff Associate (ESA) certificate in counseling.
• Experience of supporting adult learner’s understanding of anxiety, the consequences of excessive anxiety, and how to identify symptoms indicating anxiety.
• Experience identifying and addressing mental health cognitive barriers, including recognition of the role environmental factors have in causing or exacerbating mental health issues.
• Knowledge of strength-focused strategies for students, including trauma-informed and social emotional learning (SEL) practices.
• Demonstrated skill or experience supporting and contributing to the success of students with disabilities.
• Understanding of how injustice or racial inequity may impact students and families experience with school.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with others.
• Self-motivated and organized with the ability to manage responsibilities independently.
• Ability to evaluate the school’s counseling program effectiveness, assess program gaps and problem-solve.
• Strong relationship building, networking skills to connect with community partners and resources.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality, work effectively under pressure, and remain flexible.
• Ability to meet and maintain punctuality and attendance expectations.

Desired Qualifications and Skills:

• Successful completion of a master’s degree in school counseling.
• Experience and training in identifying and responding to anxiety in children.
• Experience with mental health models.
• Experience working with military-connected students and families.
• Bilingual skills.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $67,339.00 - $126,919.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Physical Setting:

• Public school

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Salary : $67,339 - $126,919