Job Description:
STSD Job #3313
Job Goal:     
Provides a comprehensive counseling program for students. Help students understand their abilities, aptitudes, and interests in light of the opportunities and demands that they currently experience or may experience in the future, including student assessment and career development. Plays an integral role in support of Student Assistance Programs, Pennsylvania’s Career Education and Work Standards, and Character Education programs. Help students overcome problems that impede learning and assist them in making educational, occupational, and life plans that hold promise for their personal fulfillment as mature and responsible men and women.
 
Fundamental Duties
Careers

• Introduces students to a variety of career opportunities based on personal interests and assessment results.
• Provides students the opportunity to explore career pathways by offering opportunities to participate in job shadowing, career fairs, internships, college fairs, field trips, etc.
• Assists with and prepares for state-mandated testing (PSSA/Keystone Exams).

Student Services

•  Attends IEP/ GIEP meetings.
• Collaborates with case managers to monitor academic progress.
• Collaborates with case managers as needed.
• Works with Building Principal to write and review 504 Service Agreements in collaboration with families and appropriate professional staff.
• Enrolls new students by reviewing and interpreting previous school records, contacting former school if necessary, and developing a schedule.
• Orients student to school.
• Monitors student progress toward graduation requirements and monitors student grade-point averages in relationship to achievement.
• Maintains student records and protects confidentiality of records.
• Provides information about school and community activities to students as needed.
• Maintains contact with parents via email, phone conversations and personal meetings, in a timely manner.
• Provides counselling to students with attendance problems and disciplinary problems

Counselling Program

• Guides individuals and groups of students through the development of life skills. Works with students in acquiring knowledge about, and making effective use of, skills when interacting in the home, academic and peer environments.
• Counsels individuals and small groups of students toward social and emotional growth.
• Refers students with problems and their parents to special programs, specialists and outside agencies.
• Assists students and parents in evaluating their aptitudes and abilities through the interpretation of individual standardized test scores and other pertinent data, and works with students in evolving education and occupation plans in terms of such evaluation. Facilitates student goal setting.
• Works in collaboration with case managers to resolve students’ educational needs, includingIndividual Educational Plans and Gifted Individual Educational Plans.
• Works with Building Principal to write and review 504 Service Agreements in collaboration with families and appropriate professional staff.
• Participates in the homebound instruction referral process.
• Maintains student records and upholds compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and related federal and state laws.
• Provides clear communication between the sending school and the receiving school for students who are new to the District.
• Participates in the process of identifying students who are at risk for academic or behavioral problems.
• Analyzes disaggregated student data

 Student Assistance Program (SAP)

• Works in conjunction with other Student Assistance Program members to identify students’ barriers to learning, support research-based prevention programs, and foster positive connections with students, parents, and the community.
• Reviews appropriate referrals to SAP and seeks to obtain parent permission for student involvement in the SAP program. Gathers information from parent(s), teachers, and other school personnel.
• Provides ongoing consultative support for teachers and school personnel related to the presenting issue of the SAP referral.

Qualification Standards
 
1.   Educational Specialist Certification and Master’s Degree.
2.    Demonstrated knowledge and application of effective principles, practices and trends in the field of school counselling.
3.   Must be able to perform the above responsibilities at a high level.
EOE

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