Long Term Substitute School Counselor presso West Irondequoit Central School District

JOB DESCRIPTION 

School Counselor 
 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY  

The School Counselor maintains a professional identity, supports all PK-12 students in their social and emotional, academic, and career development, and is a visible an active school leader who is reflective about his/her comprehensive school counseling program. The school counselor will provide data-informed, universal, and targeted learning experiences to develop the whole child in a diverse society. The school counselor will align actions to the mission and vision of the district and their school. 

IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES? 

• Utilize human development theories to have an impact on developmental issues affecting student success 

• Utilize learning theory to support student achievement and success, including students with diverse learning needs  

• Utilize established and emerging, evidence-based counseling theories and techniques that are effective in a school setting to promote academic, career, and social and emotional development  

• Utilize career development theories and align them with career and technical education when possible to promote and support postsecondary planning  

• Utilize the principles of a multi-tiered system of support within the context of a comprehensive school counseling program to provide instruction and interventions matched to student need  

• Utilize systemic and environmental factors that affect human development, functioning, and behavior  

• Collaborate with administrators, teachers, and other staff in the school and district to ensure culturally responsive curricula and student-centered instruction  

• Identify factors that enhance and impede students’ academic, career, and social and emotional development  

• Focus on the academic, career, and social and emotional development of all students   

• Deliver culturally appropriate direct and indirect counseling services  

• Develop measurable outcomes for school counseling activities, interventions, and experiences  

• Demonstrate effective management and vision of the comprehensive school counseling program in collaboration with all stakeholders 

• Provide equitable practices that embrace the diversity of the school community  

• Contribute to a caring, positive school culture  

• Utilize student, school, and district data to identify achievement, attendance, and discipline issues to be addressed through instruction and intervention 

• Conduct assessments of student needs to contribute to individual student and program planning  

• Maintain a list of current referral resources, consistent with school and district policies, for students, staff, and families to effectively address academic, career, and social and emotional issues  

• Utilize objectives within the school’s comprehensive school counseling program that reflect current knowledge and skills as provided in the New York State Comprehensive School Counseling Framework and Social Emotional Learning Benchmarks 

PROFESSIONAL GROWTH? 

• Facilitates/participates in ongoing professional development opportunities connected to district, department, building, and professional goals.? 

• Maintains professional certification required by New York State.? 

OTHER DUTIES? 

• Prepare reports as required by the Assistant Director of Counseling, Student Equity, and Wellness and the Directors of Student Services? 

• Other duties as assigned.? 

QUALIIFICATIONS 

• Valid certificate as a School Counselor for the State of New York with required endorsement in area of assignment  

• Prior experience in the school setting preferred, but not required.