What are the responsibilities and job description for the ESOL Guidance Counselor position at Second Mile Education?
The certified Guidance counselor provides leadership in the school through implementation of a data driven, comprehensive school counseling program aligned with the school’s mission to promote academic, social/emotional, and college/career development, while ensuring equity and access for all students
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Designs and implements a data driven, comprehensive school counseling program for all students to address barriers to student learning and to close the achievement/opportunity gap.
- Provides direct services for students including, but not limited to, school counseling core curriculum, individual counseling and student planning, large and small group counseling, and preventative and responsive services.
- Provides indirect services on behalf of students including, but not limited to, referrals for additional assistance and consultation/collaboration with parents, teachers, administrators, and other key stakeholders to create learning environments that promote educational equity, access and success for every student.
- Delivers programs that promote students’ development of essential mindsets and behavior standards including, but not limited to, learning skills, social skills, self-management skills, and college/career readiness skills.
- Deepens understanding of standards and engages faculty, students, parents, and community members to understand the standards and the vision of academic success aligned to college/career readiness.
- Advocates for student equity and access to a world-class education that leads to high school graduation and fosters post-graduate success.
- Uses the skills of leadership, advocacy and collaboration to create systemic change to improve the academic, social/emotional, and post-graduate success for all students.
- Supports school staff in analysis of student performance data, rigorous goal-setting and the sub-group levels, and development of effective action plans for improving academic, social/ emotional, and post-graduate outcomes for all students. Promoting Positive School Climate
- Acts as a systems change agent to ensure a safe and supportive school climate that promotes the social/emotional and academic development and success of all students.
- Fosters parent and community partnerships to support the social/emotional and academic development of all students.
- Infuses cultural competence and ethical and professional competencies in planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating the comprehensive school counseling program.
- Supports a comprehensive ‘Single School Culture’ that addresses the social/emotional development and well-being of all students.
- Aids in the development and implementation of a multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) including, but not limited to, response to intervention (RtI) and School-Wide Positive Behavior Support (SwPBS).
- Builds a school-wide culture of pride, trust and respect, including the development of preventative approaches against all forms of mistreatment and bullying.
- Provides counseling for students during times of transition, separation, heightened stress and critical change.
- Uses appropriate responses and a variety of intervention strategies to meet the needs of the individual, group or school community before, during and after crisis response.
- Supports the continuum of mental health services, including prevention and intervention strategies, and identifies best practices for collaborating with both school-based and community mental health providers to enhance student success.
- Master’s degree with a graduate major in guidance and counseling or counselor education which includes three (3) semester hours in a supervised counseling practicum in an elementary or secondary school; OR Master’s degree with thirty (30) semester hours of graduate credit in guidance and counseling, to include the areas specified in Administrative Rule 6A.4.0181.
- Guidance counselor FLDOE certification
- Demonstrated ability to deliver school counseling program interventions that promote student achievement, social/emotional development, and college/career readiness.
- Demonstrated ability to develop, implement, evaluate, and document outcomes of a comprehensive school counseling program.
- Demonstrated ability to work with diverse groups, and effectively communicate, both orally and in writing.
- Knowledge of current computing technologies and software applications appropriate to the position’s job responsibilities.
Salary : $60,000 - $65,000
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