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Position Description
POSITION TITLE: Middle School Guidance Counselor Grade 5-8
FLSA: Exempt
QUALIFICATIONS: Must meet AR licensure requirements
REPORTS TO: Principal
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: 205 Day employment with benefits as specified in employee contract.
LOCATIONS: Crossett Middle School
BEGINNING:
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
- Develop and deliver the school counseling curriculum in a classroom setting.
- Assist students in the areas of academic and in personal/social development.
- Provide individual and small group counseling in a variety of settings.
- Consult and collaborate with teachers, staff and parents in understanding and meeting the needs of students in the school setting.
- Participate in activities that contribute to the effective operation of the school.
- Plan, evaluate and revise the school counseling program.
- Pursue continuous professional growth to stay abreast of the field.
- Promote an understanding and appreciation of diverse populations and cultures.
- Monitor and advise students and their parents as to progress.
- Prepare students for the transition to the next level of school and activities.
- Work with students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems, as related to home and family, health, and emotional adjustment.
OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS
- Maintain emotional control under stress.
- Must maintain a constant dialogue and communications relationship with administration, faculty, and parents so as to better meet the needs of each student.
- Actively involved in and serves as a resource person for the teacher/student advisor program of the school.
- Recognize the extent of his/her training and refer to other specialists those pupils whose problems go beyond his/her skills.
- Perform such other tasks and assumes such other responsibilities as may be assigned by the Principal, provided such assignments do not diminish the effectiveness of the counselor.
- Must have the ability to lift at least 40 pounds occasionally.
- Ability to endure prolonged standing, walking, sitting, kneeling, occasional reaching above the head or the shoulders, bending, squatting.