School Counselor-VES

Job Description:

School Counselor

Reports To:

Principal

Dept/School:

Assigned School

Employment:

200 Day Contract

Calendar:

10 Months / 200 Days

Salary Grade:

Degree / Years (Certified Scale)

Date Revised:

11/19/2025

Primary Purpose

Plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive developmental guidance and counseling program at assigned campus. Counsel students to fully develop each student's academic, career, personal, and social abilities, and address the needs of special population students

Qualifications:

Education/Licensure:

Bachelor's degree in guidance counseling or school administration

Master's degree (preferred)

Valid School Service Personnel License

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Knowledge of counseling procedures, student appraisal, and career development

Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills

Ability to instruct students and manage their behavior

Ability to present information in one-on-one, small group, and large group situations to students, parents, and district staff

Experience:

Two years experience as a classroom teacher

Performance Responsibilities and Essential Functions:

Guidance

1. Plan and conduct structured group lessons to deliver district's guidance curriculum effectively and in accordance with students' developmental needs. Collaborate with teachers who teach guidance-related curriculum.
2. Guide individual students, groups of students, and parents to plan, monitor, and manage the student's own educational and career development, including creating and reviewing personal graduation plans and providing information about post-secondary opportunities.
3. Use accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to counsel individual students, small groups of students, and parents to plan, monitor, and manage a student's own personal and social development. Provide preventive, remedial, and crisis counseling as needed.
4. Serve as an impartial, non-reporting resource for interpersonal conflicts and discourse involving two or more students, including accusations of bullying.

Consultation

1. Coordinate school, home, and community resources and refer students, parent, and others to special programs and services as needed.
2. Work collaboratively to advocate for individual students and specific groups of students.

Assessment

1. Interpret standardized test results and assessment data to guide students in individual goal setting and planning.

Program Management and Administration

1. Plan, implement, evaluate, and promote continuous improvement of a balanced, comprehensive developmental guidance and counseling program that includes guidance curriculum, responsive services, individual planning, and system support components.
2. Advocate for a school environment that acknowledges and respects diversity.
3. Compile, maintain, and file all reports, records, and other documents.
4. Comply with federal and state law, State Board of Education rules and regulations, and board policy. Comply with all district and campus routines and regulations
5. Adhere to legal, ethical, and professional standards for school counselor,s including current professional standards of competence and practice.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Supervise assigned counseling aide(s) and clerical employee(s).

Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:

Tools/Equipment Used:

Personal computer; standard instructional equipment

Posture:

Prolonged sitting; frequent standing, kneeling/squatting, bending/stooping, pushing/pulling, and twisting

Motion:

Frequent walking

Lifting:

Regular light lifting and carrying (less than 15 pounds); occasional physical restraint of students to control behavior

Environment:

Work inside, may work outside

Mental Demands:

Maintain emotional control under stress; may work prolonged or irregular hours

Notes:

The duties outlined are normal for this position. The omission of specific statements of the duties does not exclude them from the classification if the work is similar, related, or is a logical assignment for this classification.