Counselor - Wright

About the role

The Cedar Rapids Community School District seeks a Professional School Counselor to deliver a comprehensive school counseling program.

Responsibilities

• Works collaboratively with administration, school staff, parents, students, and community partners to deliver a comprehensive school counseling program.
• Demonstrates creativity and critical thinking in assisting administration, school staff, parents, and students in overcoming barriers to learning.
• Utilizes effective communication skills when interacting virtually, in-person, or in writing with administration, school staff, parents, students, and community partners.
• Analyzes and uses data regularly to help inform decisions about programming, innovations, and interventions.
• Direct student services: school counseling core curriculum instruction - direct instruction, team teaching, developing learning activities, group activities - planned activities outside the classroom promoting academic, career or social/emotional development, individual student planning, appraisal - assist students in evaluating interests, abilities, skills and achievement, advisement - assist students in goal setting based on academic, career and social/emotional data, responsive services - counseling - in individual or small-group settings school counselors provide planned, short-term and goal-focused counseling. School counselors do not provide therapy or long-term counseling in schools; however, school counselors are prepared to recognize and respond to student mental health needs and to assist students and families seeking resources. Crisis response - provide support and assistance to students and families as they navigate crisis and emergency situations.
• Indirect student services: consultation - share strategies supporting student achievement with parents, teachers, other educators and community organizations, collaboration - work with other educators, parents and the community to support student achievement, referrals - support for students and families to school or community resources for additional assistance and information.

Essential Skills and Mindsets

• Works collaboratively with administration, school staff, parents, students, and community partners to deliver a comprehensive school counseling program.
• Demonstrates creativity and critical thinking in assisting administration, school staff, parents, and students in overcoming barriers to learning.
• Utilizes effective communication skills when interacting virtually, in-person, or in writing with administration, school staff, parents, students, and community partners.
• Analyzes and uses data regularly to help inform decisions about programming, innovations, and interventions.

Education and Experience

• MA in School Counseling Required.
• Experience as a school counselor or in classroom teaching preferred.

Language Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, interpret, and implement ideas contained in technical documents, assessment data, professional journals and regulations.
• Ability to effectively write reports and communications to students, colleagues, parents and staff.
• Ability to effectively present information orally and respond to questions from administrators, teachers, staff and students.
• Ability to assist students in the areas of language and literacy.

Mental Abilities

• Ability to solve problems effectively.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

Reasoning Ability

• Ability to solve problems effectively.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle and/or feel objects, tools or controls; talk and hear.
• The employee frequently must squat, stoop or kneel, reach above the head and forward 0 - 24 inches and on occasion up to 36 inches.
• The employee continuously uses hand strength to grasp items.
• The employee will frequently bend or twist at the neck and trunk more than the average person while performing the duties of this job.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds 0 - 12 feet and occasionally up to 20 feet, such as curriculum materials, desks, chairs, and boxes.
• The employee will sometimes push/pull items such as tables and carts.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and the ability to adjust focus while supervising students and working with computers, written materials, reports, assessment data, etc.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
• The position requires the commitment of professional working hours that may require the employee to extend beyond a typical 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. workday.
• The employee will frequently work in different areas of the classroom including in/at desks, on or near the floor, standing, in movement while supervising indoor and outdoor activities, etc.
• The employee will usually work in indoor temperatures but will work outdoors when supervising students outside of the classroom.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Cedar Rapids Community School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The district does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or disability.