What are the responsibilities and job description for the School Counselor - Hardy Oak Elementary position at North East Independent School District?
** 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR OPENING**
RESUME MUST BE SUBMITTED WITH APPLICATION
Location: Hardy Oak ES
Work Schedule: 10 Months
Work Type: Regular Full-Time
Exempt: Yes
Pay Grade: A3
REASONS TO JOIN NEISD
**IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING CALCULATION OF PAY: The annual pay for this position is pro-rated based on the effective date of the assignment
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE :
Master's Degree from an accredited four-year college or university Minimum of two years of classroom teaching experience and/or certified school counselor experience preferred
Master's Degree from an accredited four-year college or university Minimum of two years of classroom teaching experience and/or certified school counselor experience preferred
CERTIFICATION :
Valid Professional Counselor's Certificate by the State Board for Educator Certification
High School Diplomas and college/university degrees must be obtained from an accredited program or university approved by the United States Department of Education and the Texas Education Agency.
PRIMARY PURPOSE SUMMARY :
Plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive school 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. Deliver guidance curriculum in various group sizes. Educate students of skills necessary to address troublesome circumstances, support students in challenging situations, and assist students with needed resources to navigate crisis situations. Works collaboratively various school entities to ensure the success of all students.
Plan, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive school 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. Deliver guidance curriculum in various group sizes. Educate students of skills necessary to address troublesome circumstances, support students in challenging situations, and assist students with needed resources to navigate crisis situations. Works collaboratively various school entities to ensure the success of all students.
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Plans, implements, and evaluates a comprehensive program of guidance in accordance with students’ developmental needs, including counseling services.
2. Outlines, in writing, and effectively teaches, a guidance curriculum consistent with the District's guidance program plan and tailored to campus needs.
3. Works with students, staff, parents or guardians, and the community to identify priorities where students will be served through the guidance curriculum component. Collaborates across curricular areas to integrate guidance lessons into content area curriculum.
4. Continue to improve the effectiveness of the overall program in meeting desired student outcomes.
5. Guides 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.
6. Uses accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to counsel individual students, small groups of students, teachers, and parents to plan, monitor, and manage a student’s own personal and social development. Provides preventive, remedial, and crisis counseling, as needed.
7. Maintains a communication system that effectively collects and disseminates information about students to other professionals as appropriate.
8. Uses effective referral process for assisting students and others to use School/District special programs, community agencies, and services.
9. Develops and maintains positive working relationships with other school professionals and representatives of community resources.
10. Interprets test and other appraisal results to school personnel, students, and their parents.
11. In partnership with campus administration, plans and supports a successful campus testing environment.
12. Uses other sources of student data such as the standardized testing program as assessment tools for educational planning.
13. Advocates for a school environment that acknowledges and respects diversity.
14. Compiles, maintains, and files all reports, records, and other documents.
15. Adheres to ethical, legal, and professional standards for school counselors, including current professional standards of competence and practice.
16. Participates as a member of the campus team in maintaining accurate records pertaining to the submission of campus data to Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS).
17. Assists administration in the withdrawal process by conducting and appropriately documenting student exit interviews.
18. Maintains and protects confidential student cumulative records.
19. Complies with policies established by federal and state law, State Board of Education rule, and board policy.
20. Complies with all district and campus routines and regulations.
21. Occasionally required to drive personal vehicle in the performance of assigned tasks.
22. Reports to work on time every day.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
• Knowledge of leadership principles and theories
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Occasionally required to drive personal vehicle in the performance of assigned tasks.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The employee is occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Performs additional duties and accepts other responsibilities as may be assigned.
1. Plans, implements, and evaluates a comprehensive program of guidance in accordance with students’ developmental needs, including counseling services.
2. Outlines, in writing, and effectively teaches, a guidance curriculum consistent with the District's guidance program plan and tailored to campus needs.
3. Works with students, staff, parents or guardians, and the community to identify priorities where students will be served through the guidance curriculum component. Collaborates across curricular areas to integrate guidance lessons into content area curriculum.
4. Continue to improve the effectiveness of the overall program in meeting desired student outcomes.
5. Guides 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.
6. Uses accepted theories and effective techniques of developmental guidance to counsel individual students, small groups of students, teachers, and parents to plan, monitor, and manage a student’s own personal and social development. Provides preventive, remedial, and crisis counseling, as needed.
7. Maintains a communication system that effectively collects and disseminates information about students to other professionals as appropriate.
8. Uses effective referral process for assisting students and others to use School/District special programs, community agencies, and services.
9. Develops and maintains positive working relationships with other school professionals and representatives of community resources.
10. Interprets test and other appraisal results to school personnel, students, and their parents.
11. In partnership with campus administration, plans and supports a successful campus testing environment.
12. Uses other sources of student data such as the standardized testing program as assessment tools for educational planning.
13. Advocates for a school environment that acknowledges and respects diversity.
14. Compiles, maintains, and files all reports, records, and other documents.
15. Adheres to ethical, legal, and professional standards for school counselors, including current professional standards of competence and practice.
16. Participates as a member of the campus team in maintaining accurate records pertaining to the submission of campus data to Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS).
17. Assists administration in the withdrawal process by conducting and appropriately documenting student exit interviews.
18. Maintains and protects confidential student cumulative records.
19. Complies with policies established by federal and state law, State Board of Education rule, and board policy.
20. Complies with all district and campus routines and regulations.
21. Occasionally required to drive personal vehicle in the performance of assigned tasks.
22. Reports to work on time every day.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
• Knowledge of leadership principles and theories
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Demonstrated multicultural, ethical and professional competencies in planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating a comprehensive school counseling program
- Demonstrated ability to use good judgment and discretion in sensitive, confidential issues and projects
- Valid Texas Driver’s License with driving record that meets the requirements of the District
PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Occasionally required to drive personal vehicle in the performance of assigned tasks.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The employee is occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Performs additional duties and accepts other responsibilities as may be assigned.
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While all applications will be reviewed, not all applicants will be interviewed.
North East Independent School District does not to discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, marital or veteran status, disability (or relationship or association with an individual with a disability), genetic information or other legally protected status in its programs, services or activities as required by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.
