Elementary Counselor

Elementary School Counselor

Expectations and Qualifications:

Comprehensive School Counseling and Ogden School District recognize the importance of early intervention in elementary school. The elementary school counselor position is intended to support the design and implementation of a systemic counseling program across all grade levels in the elementary system. The elementary school counselor is expected to play an active role in the school improvement process, aligning data-driven systemic counseling program goals with the school and district goals. The elementary school counselor works as a leader and collaborator in the school to provide academic, personal, social, and life skills development opportunities that are necessary for student success and lifelong learning. This focus on alignment plays an integral role in preparing students to be college and career-ready students. The approach of the elementary school counselor should be preventative and proactive in nature.

Leadership:

• Serve as part of the school leadership team and work with the team to develop plans to address school goals and challenges in working towards meeting the district goals of graduation and literacy.
• Work with the district elementary counseling team to provide shared leadership and expertise among schools, to support the role of elementary counselors, and to support students districtwide.
• Work with school and district leadership to implement a College and Career Readiness School Counseling Program Model at the school site.

Essential Functions:

• School Leadership Team: Be an active leader in the school, and contribute to the development and implementation of the school improvement plan. Counseling data projects need to align with and support school goals.
• Support Tiered intervention including academics, attendance, and behavior. Work with school leadership to create, and facilitate an intervention program to address issues within the school environment including, the Child Assistance Team, PBIS Team, Attendance Interventions, etc.
• Collaborative Classroom Instruction for Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is developed based on targeted gaps and identified needs. Administrators will assist counselors to ensure this is delivered in collaboration with the classroom teacher who can then reinforce the skills and lessons. The counselor will support Tier 1 instructions, provide Tier 2 small group re-teaching, and work with Tier 3 ChAT to ensure that individualized needs are met for students as needed.
• The school counselor is available for responsive services as needed and is able to collaborate with the school and outside resources to meet student needs as identified. Counselors should always be made available as a first priority for any crisis support request.
• Implement and provide as-needed groups for identified needs: bullying, grief, transitions, mental needs (SEL), divorce, etc. (work with an outside resource if available or if necessary, however, counselors can be trained to provide these groups and individualized goal-focused counseling as short term interventions)
• Tiered intervention approach support for attendance. Work with school leadership to create, and facilitate an intervention program to address chronic absenteeism within the school environment.
• College and Career Readiness Program: Provide multiple opportunities for students to participate in college and career readiness/awareness activities.
• All 6th-grade students will participate in a Parent/Student Individualized meeting with a focus on next-step planning. This includes the transition to Junior High, an introduction to college and career planning, and course selection for Junior High School. Collaborate with school staff to reach all students.
• Ensure that Career Literacy standards are sequenced throughout K-6 and that they become an integral part of the whole school curriculum. Work as a leader to support teacher knowledge of the Career Literacy standards.

Other Functions:

• Align with feeder cone schools to collaborate for effective transitions to secondary programs.
• Align with programs to provide information including CTE Pathways, Gifted and Talented, Bilingual Education/Immersion, STEM, etc.

Requirements:

Successful candidates must have a Masters degree in School Counseling and be eligible for the Utah School Counselor License or obtain one by July 1 of the coming school year;

or,

Candidates in a Master's degree School Counseling program may be considered with the Associate Educator License from USBE.