School Counselor Position Available In Orange, Florida

School Counselor 3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars 1644 North Lakewood Avenue, Ocoee, FL 34761

Position:

School Counselor Reports To:

Principal and/or

Designee Position Type:

Salary /

Exempt Work Schedule:

10-Month Position, Monday –

Friday Hours:

7:50 am – 3:50 pm

Salary Schedule:

10-months,

Performance Based Schedule Board Approved Date:

Job Purpose:

To provide leadership in the school through the implementation of a comprehensive, data-driven school counseling program aligned with the school’s mission to promote academic and social/emotional excellence, while ensuring equity and access for all students.

Qualifications:

Holds or be eligible for a Florida Department of Education certificate in school counseling as specified in AdministrativeRule 6A.4.0181, which requires a master’s degree or higher in guidance and counseling or counselor education. Understanding of Montessori education, preferred

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Demonstrates the ability to support student achievement, social/emotional development, and college/career readiness. Abides by the American School Counselor Association’s Ethical Standards for School Counselors.

• Designs and implements a data-driven, comprehensive school counseling program for all students to address barriers to student learning and to close the achievement/opportunity gap.
• Provides direct services to the school. Direct services include, but are not limited to, school counseling core curriculum, individual counseling and student planning, classroom lessons, small group counseling, and preventative and responsive services.
• Provides indirect services to the school. Indirect services on behalf of students include, but not limited to, referrals for additional assistance and consultation/collaboration with parents, teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders to create a learning environment promoting educational equity, access, and success for every student.
• Delivers programs that promote students’ development of essential mindsets and behavior standards including, but not limited to, learning skills, social skills, self-management skills, and college/career readiness skills.
• Reviews and disaggregates student achievement, attendance, and behavior data to identify and implement interventions with current knowledge of promotion, retention, and graduation requirements.
• Uses school data to identify and assist individual students who do not perform at grade level and do not have opportunities and resources to be successful in school.
• Creates yearly, data-driven goals that advance student outcomes in areas of academic, social/emotional, and college/career development. Promoting Positive School Climate
• Acts as a systems change agent in collaboration with the school leadership team to ensure a safe, supportive, and respectful school climate that promotes the social/emotional and academic development and success of all students.
• Fosters family and community partnerships to support the social/emotional and academic development of all students.
• Infuses cultural competence, ethical and professional competencies in planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating the comprehensive school counseling program.
• Provides preventative education and skill building along with counseling for students during times of transition, separation, heightened stress and critical change.
• Uses appropriate responses and a variety of intervention strategies to meet the needs of the individual, group or school community before, during and after crisis response.
• Supports the continuum of mental health services, including prevention and tiered intervention strategies, and collaborates with both school-based and community mental health providers to enhance student success. Leadership and Advocacy
• Develops and communicates a school counseling mission statement that is specific, concise, clear and comprehensive, describing a school counseling program’s purpose and vision of the program’s benefits for every student in alignment with the school, district and state missions.
• Analyzes and reports outcomes of the school counseling program and goals, which are presented in the context of the overall school and district performance.
• Uses legal and ethical decision-making based on standards and principles of the school counseling profession and educational systems, including district and building policies.
• Collaborates with school staff in the analysis of student performance data, rigorous goal-setting, and development of effective action plans for improving academic, social/emotional, and post-graduate outcomes for all students.
• Establish open lines of communication with parents/guardians.

Physical Requirements/Activity:

• Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently.
• The position requires the ability to sit, stand, walk, bend, reach, lift (up to 20 pounds), finger dexterity, grasping, talking, hearing acuity, and visual acuity.

Indoor and Outdoor:

School Counselor is subject to both environmental conditions. Activities occur inside and outside.

Compensation and Benefits:

Competitive performance-based compensation and benefits package in alignment with Florida statute.

Evaluation:

Performance of this job will be evaluated with provisions of the board’s policy on evaluation.

Job Types:

Full-time, Contract Pay:

From $51,400.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Employee assistance program Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Retirement plan Vision insurance

Schedule:

8 hour shift Monday to

Friday Work Location:

In person