The School Counselor helps students develop skills in personal-social growth, educational planning, and career and vocational development. This role involves establishing, implementing, and evaluating the school counseling program, while also collaborating with staff and providing individual and group counseling services.
Responsibilities
Establish the school-counseling program and develop activities and resources to implement and evaluate it
Involve other school staff in making decisions about the school counseling program
Provide individual and group counseling services to meet the developmental, preventive, and remedial needs of students
Consult with students, parents, teachers, and other school and community personnel to assist in meeting the needs of students
Coordinate all counseling services for students and assist with the coordination and implementation of student services in the school
Assist teachers with the Guidance Curriculum
Accurately interpret test results and other student data
Assist teachers with the educational placement of students by using appropriate educational assessment strategies
Adhere to ethical standards of the counseling profession, and abide by the laws, policies, and procedures that govern the schools
Participate in professional associations and upgrade professional knowledge and skills when needed
Attend professional development trainings to be proficient in the use of the Guilford County Schools Learning Management System for online courses, if assigned to the Virtual Learning Program
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in a related field with a Master’s degree in counseling or any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities
Must be licensed by the State of North Carolina Department of Public Instruction in counseling or able to obtain licensure in this area
Ability to operate a variety of equipment including computers, typewriters, copiers, calculators
Ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, and pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body
Ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics of data, people or things
Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, including receiving instructions, assignments or directions
Ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, press releases
Ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style
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Ability to speak before groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence
Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables
Ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions
Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently using a variety of technical or professional languages including counseling terminology
Ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the theories of descriptive statistics
Ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape
Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment
Ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment; must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination
Does not require the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color
Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions
Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations
Ability to talk and hear, and communicate via telephone
General knowledge of the ethical guidelines applicable to the position as outlined by professional organizations and/or federal, state and local laws, rules and regulations
General knowledge of the principles of organization and administration
General knowledge of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study
Skill in counseling and motivating students
Ability to plan, coordinate, and evaluate the effectiveness of student programs
Ability to coordinate the efforts of support services personnel and outside agencies
Ability to use common office machines and popular computer-driven word processing, spreadsheet and file maintenance programs
Ability to maintain complete and accurate records and statistics and to develop meaningful reports from them
Ability to effectively express ideas orally and in writing
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments
Important Details
Start date: August 13, 2026
Application Process
Have a completed BCS application online
Contact Michael Swinson, Principal
Reporting Structure
Reports to: Principal and/or Counseling Supervisor or Coordinator of Virtual Learning (if assigned to the Virtual Learning Program)
Supervises: May coordinate and direct activities of counselor aides and clerical assistants
