High School Counselor/Department Head
QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Valid Oregon high school counseling license.
2. Master's degree in counseling required.
3. High school counseling experience required.
4. Interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with students, parents, staff, and community.
5. Knowledge of Oregon diploma requirements, college entrance requirements, and scholarships.
6. Knowledge of PBIS, I-Team, and other intervention strategies.
REPORTS TO:
Building Principal
SUPERVISES:
None.
JOB GOAL:
To enable students to derive the fullest possible educational experience from school, by promoting their sense of self-worth, and by assisting them to cope with and overcome learning and emotional problems.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Assist the staff in providing orientation for each new child in the school.
2. Offer guidance activities to individuals and groups of children.
3. Work with small groups using unstructured plan sessions, role-playing techniques, etc., to teach social skills.
4. Coordinate selection and use of guidance materials.
5. Assist teachers in securing materials and developing procedures for a variety of classroom group guidance experiences.
6. Provide a resource to teachers in career awareness.
7. Conduct teacher in-service programs related to guidance, child development, parent-teacher contacts, classroom management, etc.
8. Assist teachers with interpretation of group test results.
9. Participate in curriculum planning.
10. Interpret individual achievement and intellectual function tests to parents, teachers, and principals.
11. Assist parents, principals, and teachers to understand the developmental growth process of children.
12. Assist building principals in providing parents with information regarding school policies and procedures.
13. As a member of the evaluation team, assist in identification of children with special needs and talents. This includes screening and testing to determine academic, intellectual, and emotional status which may lead to placement in special programs for the handicapped or gifted.
14. Is responsible, within the building, for the management of the handicapped child's program as provided for under Public Law 94-l42.
15. Maintain appropriate records in the building, and at other designated places.
16. Send newly received records to appropriate staff.
17. Furnish pupil data to the receiving school when a handicapped student transfers, and help to obtain data on new handicapped students.
18. Hold conferences with parents, agents of community resources, and others when the occasion demands.
19. Attend and participate in building staff meetings.
20. Perform other tasks as assigned.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Salary and work year to be established in accordance with the provisions of the Certified Agreement.
EVALUATION:
Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with the provisions of the Certified Agreement.