School Counselor

**Position Overview**

To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational, occupational, and life plans appropriate to their age/maturity level leading to their development as productive citizens; to help students develop their potential to live full, useful lives.

**Roles and Responsibilities**
- Works to resolve students' educational handicaps; works to discover and develop special abilities of students; works to prevent students from dropping out of school
- Works with students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related to such situations as home and family relations, peer relations, health, and emotional adjustment; is available to students to provide counseling in such areas as personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity
- Conducts small group counseling on student-selected and counselor-identified topics such as study skills, social skills, anger management, self-esteem, changing families, and grief
- Creates and provides classroom instruction every two to three weeks through lessons promoting character education, self-advocacy, occupational choices, and bullying prevention based on Virginia Department of Education and American School Counselor Association standards for school counseling programs
- Obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and to classes studying occupations; helps students evaluate career interests and choices; may organize and conduct career day
- Provides crisis counseling when needed, for prevention, intervention, and follow-up, with referrals, when necessary, to community resources
- Provides in-service training in school counseling for staff; collaborates with administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline, developmental issues, and identifying significant behaviors such as suicide, self-harm, and depression
- Takes an active role in interpreting the school's objectives to students, parents, and the community at large; confers with parents whenever necessary
- Performs other related work as assigned

**Qualifications**
- Education

Master’s degree from an accredited college or university and completion of an approved school counseling program

Experience

Successful full-time teaching or school guidance and counseling

Licenses/Certifications

Eligibility for appropriate licensure
- An active Licensed Professional Counseling (LPC) license issued by the Virginia Department of Health Professionals (DHP) may be considered in lieu of these requirements

**Physical Requirements**

The following provides a brief description of physical requirements for this position:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly talking, expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers

**FLSA Status**: Exempt

**Months/Days/Hours**: 10 Month/ 197 Days/ 7.5 Hours

**Reports To**: Principal and/or Assistant Principal

**Salary Scale**: lcps.org/compensation