What are the responsibilities and job description for the Counselor position at West Virginia Department of Education?
JobID: 39757
Position Type:
Student Support Services/Counselor
Student Support Services/Counselor
Date Posted:
4/8/2025
4/8/2025
Location:
Kermit PK8
Kermit PK8
Closing Date:
04/14/2025
04/14/2025
County:
Mingo County Schools
Mingo County Schools
MINGO COUNTY SCHOOLS
JOB DECRIPTION
SCHOOL COUNSELOR
1. An effective guidance program in a school results from cooperative effort of the entire staff in planning and developing the program. Parents, pupils and community agencies and organizations can also contribute toward these efforts. It is essential that the objectives of the program and procedures for meeting those objectives be clearly formulated.
2. It is essential that the majority of a school counselor’s time be devoted to individual or small-group counseling.
3. The school counselor assumes the roles of leader and consultant in the school’s program of pupil appraisal.
4. Provide pupils and parents with an understanding of the pupil as an individual in relation to educational and occupational opportunities for his optimal growth and development and to promote self-direction of the pupil.
5. The counselor is the principal person on the school staff who makes and coordinates referrals both to other specialists in pupil personnel services and to public and private agencies in the community.
6. The counselor’s role in providing placement services for individual pupils involves assisting them in making appropriate choices of school subjects and courses of study and in making transitions from one school level to another, one school to another, and from school to employment. Placement thereby involves the informational services of educational and occupational planning, pupil appraisal, and counseling.
7. The counselor holds conferences with patents and acts as a resource person on the growth and development of their children.
8. The school counselor works closely with members of the administrative and teaching staffs to the end that all of the school’s resources are directed toward meeting the needs of individual pupils.
9. Research in guidance is concerned with the study of pupil needs and how well school services and activities are meeting those needs. The school counselor plays a role of leadership in determining the need for research, conducting or cooperating in research studies, and interpreting research finding to members of the school staff.
10. The school counselor has a responsibility for interpreting counseling and guidance services of the school to members of the school staff, parents, and the community. All of his efforts at giving service to individuals in the guidance and counseling program have potential value in public relations.
11. Each counselor will provide testing services designed to help each pupil appraise his/her capabilities, achievements, interests, and adjustment. This includes the SCTP (State-County Testing Program) in grades 3,6,9, and 11 and the Mingo County Testing Program (Grade: K,1,2,4,5,7,8,10).
