School Counselor Long-Term Substitute

Job Description: School Counselor - Long-Term Substitute

Qualifications:

1. Appropriate certificate or license required.

2. Master's degree in counseling required.

3. Previous teaching experience required.

4. Other board of education requirements that are deemed important to the position.

Reports to:

Building principal(s) and Superintendent.

Job Goal:

To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in

making educational, occupational, and life plans that hold promise for their personal

and professional fulfillment as mature and responsible men and women.

Performance Responsibilities:

1. Aids students in course and subject selection.

2. Obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and to classes

studying occupations. Obtains and disseminates scholarship information to

students when possible.

3. Assists students in evaluation their aptitudes and abilities through the

interpretation of individual standardized test scores and other pertinent data, and

works with students in evolving educational and occupational plans in terms of

such evaluations.

4. Works to discover and develop special abilities of students.

5. Works to resolve students' educational handicaps.

6. Registers students new to the school and orients them to school procedures and

the school's varied opportunities for learning.

7. Works to prevent students from dropping out of school.

8. Helps students evaluate career interests and choices.

9. Remains readily available to students so as to provide counseling that will lead

each student to increased personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity.

10. Works with students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems

related to such issues as home and family relations, health, and emotional

adjustment.

11.Guides students in their participation in school and community activities.

12. Maintains student records and protects confidentiality.

13. Initiates, assembles, maintains and interprets accurate health records, attendance

records, cumulative progress reports, activity records, and uniform transcript

records for assigned students.

14. Confers with parents when necessary.

15. Assists in the orientation of new students and new faculty members.

16. Provides in-service training on guidance topics for students and teachers.

17. Works with teachers and other staff members to familiarize them with the

general range of services offered the school district and to improve the

educational prospects of individual students being counseled.

18. Advises administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline,

sometimes handling minor issues between students.

19. Takes an active role in interpreting the schools objectives to students, parents,

and the community at large.

20. Interprets the guidance program to the community.

21. Organizes and conducts evening parent meetings and other school

sponsored activities in cooperation with the principal(s).

22. Serves as leading member IAT, IEP and other school teams to

identify, accommodate and assist at-risk students.

23. Serves as the testing coordinator for K-12 grade levels.

24. Works as a team member for all district guidance program responsibilities.

25. Assumes other duties as assigned by the principal(s) and superintendent.

Evaluation:

Principal(s) will evaluate performance of this person.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary

Pay: $100.00 - $221.00 per day

Benefits:

• Retirement plan

Physical Setting:

• Public school

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

License/Certification:

• School Counseling Certification (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $100 - $221