High School Guidance Counselor

Performance Responsibilities

• Provides counseling and guidance to students individually:
  • Helps students resolve and/or deal with personal problems that arise in dealing with peers, family, school, and other situations causing stress.
  • Helps students become adequate and responsible in their own choices and decision making.
  • Helping students discover themselves as worthwhile people, developing understanding and acceptance of themselves and others.
• Assists students in fulfilling their educational requirements and needs by observing their academic growth.
• Evaluates records of all new students for placement.
• Periodically summarizes progress of counseling in guidance records.
• Provides group guidance:
  • To work with special needs groups to supplement individual counseling and to focus on common issues and needs.
  • To provide whole class guidance as time permits with needs determined by counselor, class, teacher, and/or principal.
  • To facilitate effective education and vocational exploration within the classroom as time permits. This may be actually provided for by counselor, teacher or other qualified person.
• Family counseling as time and need allow.
• Adolescent Health-education program teaching, discussing issues dealing with puberty and adolescence.
• Consultation:
  • Provides services to school staff.
  • Consults with teachers / administration about specific students.
  • Work to enhance or help set-up behavior management programs.
  • Consultant to teachers.
  • Active consultant to Pupil Placement Team.
  • Resource person for teachers / administration especially in areas of adjustment problems and child developmental needs.
  • Consult with outside agencies such as child and Family Services, Welfare Dept., Juvenile Officer, school psychologists, social workers, staff and other schools and programs (ex. TAC).
  • Resource to parents/families
• Directly contacts and/or responds to parents to discuss personal adjustments and areas of concern.
• Interprets previous grades and tests as needed.
• Discusses discipline cases.
• Makes appropriate referrals and recommendations.
• Consults with other counselors Discuss common concerns. Evaluate needs. Strives to improve and maintain professional competence.
• Consults and works closely with school nurses.

Clinical Activities

• Evaluates records of new students to pick up special needs areas and/or for placement.
• Aids students in fulfilling their educational requirements and needs by observing academic growth through test results and teacher/parent/student consultation and coordination.
• Makes appropriate referrals for special testing.
• Collaborates with other counselors, students, parents, teachers, and others as needs arise.
• Sets-up, coordinates and supervises counselor intern program for maximum program effectiveness.

Conditions of Employment

• The term of the contract will be for 200 days or in accordance with current master agreement.
• Each school counselor will be evaluated on an annual basis by April 1.
• Evaluations will be completed by the building principal.