Interim - High School Counselor (sub pay 11/30-1/27/27)

TITLE                              COUNSELOR 9-12 (Guidance Teacher)

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Minimum master's degree
2. Valid teacher license with appropriate endorsement
3. Administrative or supervisory experience
4. Meets health and physical requirements

JOB GOAL

To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational, occupational, and life plans

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

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

2. Aids students in course and subject selections

3. Maintains student records and protects their confidentiality

4. Works to resolve students' educational benefits

5. Works to discover and develop special abilities of students

6. Works to encourage students to stay in school

7. Provides student information to colleges and potential employers according to provisions of the board's policy on student records

8. Makes recommendations to colleges for admission and scholarships

9. Arranges for tutors and summer school work

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

11. Plans field trips to schools, colleges, and industry for interested students

12. Obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and to classes studying occupations

13. Helps students evaluate career interests and choices

14. Organizes and conducts annual "Career Day"

15. 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

16. Provides counseling to students in terms of increasing self-awareness and developing a positive self-concept

17. Provides counseling to students who are referred as having problems in attendance, retention, discipline, and pre-delinquency

18. Confers with parents whenever necessary

19. Interprets the guidance program to the community

20. Provides inservice training in guidance for teachers and student teachers

21. Advises administrators and faculty on matters of student discipline

22. Assists in the orientation of new faculty members 

23. Performs other duties as assigned

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This job may require lifting of objects that exceed 25 lbs., with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 lbs.  Other physical demands that may be required are as follows:

1. Kneeling

2. Talking

3. Hearing 

4. Seeing

TEMPERAMENT (Personal traits)

1. Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure

2. Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity

3. Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria

4. Adaptability to dealing with people beyond giving and receiving instruction

CAPACITY AND ABILITY REQUIREMENTS

Specific capacities and abilities may be required of an individual in order to learn or adequately perform a task or job duty.

1. Intelligence:  Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments

2. Verbal:  Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with then

3. Numerical:  Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately

4. Data Perception:  Ability to understand and interpret information that may be presented in the form of graphs, charts, or tables

WORK CONDITIONS

Normal working environment

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. 200-day contract (lead counselor, 220-day contract)

2. Teacher salary scale

IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR

Principal

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position.  They are not intended to be a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so assigned.