About This Role
This role involves providing counseling and guidance services to students, helping them make the most of their abilities through social, behavioral, and academic support. The counselor will work with students individually and in groups, and also provide support to parents and school staff.
Responsibilities
- Provide individual counseling
- Provide group counseling and guidance
- Participate in teacher/parent conferences
- Assist with the orientation of students, parents, and school personnel concerning guidance and counseling services, as well as total school operation
- Provide testing and placement services
- Provide follow-up guidance services
- Assist with scheduling of students
- Discuss future high school requirements, training programs, and career plans with students and parents
- Check incoming cumulative records, evaluate transcripts for completeness, and prepare student records to be sent to high schools, State Department, or other schools
- Provide follow-up on students eligible for summer school
- Maintain inventory of guidance materials, testing supplies, and career materials
- Attend counselor workshops
- Serve as a consultant to members of the administrative and teaching staff
- Review and assess counseling and guidance services
- Schedule a counseling session with individual students after the second suspension
- Complete and forward to MIS completed dropout cards on a weekly basis
- Perform all other duties as assigned by the principal
Requirements
- Valid Louisiana Elementary/Secondary Certificate
- Completion of a standards-based master’s degree program in school counseling from a regionally accredited college or university approved by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Education Program (CACREP)
- Practicum/internship requirements:
- In school counseling to include 100 contact hours in a school setting
- An internship in school counseling to include 600 contact hours in a school setting
- Completion of the Praxis examination in school counseling (5422)
- Ability to communicate in standard English both orally and in writing
- Communication commensurate with age and skill of listener
- Ability to accurately give and receive information via tele-communication system
- Ability to communicate successfully and pleasantly with the public
- Ability to accurately compile and access data, summarize information, and provide written report to supervisor
- Ability to represent school system at various public functions
- Ability to understand and interpret written and verbal instructions from supervisor
- Cognizance of policy and procedures governing counselor and student services in the Jefferson Parish Public School System and their implementation
- Ability to make appropriate referrals to community agencies
- Ability to work compatibly in group settings
- Ability to serve as a resource to administrators, faculty, staff, students, parents, and community
- Ability to respond positively to supervision and to accept suggestions for improvement
- Physical ability for sitting, standing, walking, running as required during the workday
- Ability to operate office equipment
- Ability to reach, bend, lift 10 pounds (sometimes required)
- Ability for the physical restraint of another person or persons (sometimes required)
- Ability to provide own transportation to schools, work locations, and meeting sites
- Mobility skills necessary to access a variety of work locations
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
Important Details
- Schedule: eight hours per day including one hour for lunch
- Junior/Middle School counselors work the same amount of days as a regular teacher
- High School counselors work an additional twenty (20) days
About the Company
JP Schools offers a competitive salary that is commensurate with experience and a competitive benefits package. (Note: The original description stated 'JP Schools offers a competitive salary that is commensurate with experience. JP Schools also offers a competitive benefits package.' This has been moved here and combined as it describes the company's offerings rather than specific benefits of the role, and the salary portion has been removed as per instructions.)
