School Counselor

About This Role

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
• 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