School Counselor (All Levels)

Job Overview 

To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational, occupational, and life plans appropriate to their age/maturity level leading to their development as productive citizens; to help students develop their potential to live full, useful lives. 

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Works to resolve students' educational handicaps; works to discover and develop special abilities of students; works to prevent students from dropping out of school Helps register students new to the school and orients them to school procedures and the school’s varied opportunities for learning; provides assistance to students in course and subject selection; maintains student records and protects their confidentiality 
• Assists students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related to such situations as home and family relations, peer relations, health, and emotional adjustment; is available to students to provide counseling in such areas as personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity 
• Conducts small group counseling on student-selected and counselor-identified topics such as study skills, social skills, anger management, self-esteem, changing families, and grief 
• Obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and to classes studying occupations; helps students evaluate career interests and choices; may organize and conduct career day 
• Provides crisis counseling when needed, for prevention, intervention, and follow-up, with referrals, when necessary, to community resources 
• Offers in-service training in school counseling topics for staff; collaborates with administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline, developmental issues, and identifying significant behaviors such as suicide, self-harm, and depression 
• Takes an active role in interpreting the school's objectives to students, parents, and the community at large; confers with parents whenever necessary Performs other related work as assigned

Qualifications 

• Education Master’s degree from an accredited college or university and completion of an approved school counseling program 

Experience 

• Successful full-time teaching or school guidance and counseling 

Licenses/Certifications 

• Eligibility for appropriate licensure 
• *An active Licensed Professional Counseling (LPC) license issued by the Virginia Department of Health Professionals (DHP) may be considered in lieu of these requirements 
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Reports To: Principal 

FLSA Status: Exempt 

Salary Level: Licensed 

Salary Scale: https://www.lcps.org/compensation