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School Counselor - Kinston North Carolina
Company: Lenoir County School District Location: Kinston, North Carolina
Posted On: 05/17/2024
School Counselor Job Description Licensure While serving in this role, the individual must hold a current North Carolina Professional Educators license for his/her area of assignment. Must hold or be eligible to hold a North Carolina Professional Educators license in School Counselor Education (K-12). General Statement of Job: - This individual is under general supervision of the principal; serves as the center of the guidance effort of the school; is the person through whom all pertinent information regarding the student is channeled; and helps students develop skills in the areas of personal-social growth, educational planning, and career and vocational development. Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for group and individual guidance procedures associated with proper student placement in regard to graduation and beyond.
- Involvement in group and individual per-disciplinary counseling to keep the student in good standing in all classes.
- Serves as a source of information for the student with respect to the school, home, and community.
- Administers and interprets tests within the testing program.
- Collects and disseminates to students and parents information concerning school offerings, opportunities for further education, and careers and career training opportunities.
- Assists in the collection and maintenance of pertinent pupil data and to record individual student contracts.
- Assists in the follow-up student attendance irregularities when verified by the attendance office.
- Assists in establishing and coordinating student-teacher-counselor-parent-conferences.
- Provides guidance to students with academic and/or vocational problems.
- Counsels students regarding school-related personal problems.
- Provides identification and referral service for students having emotional, health, and/or learning problems which are beyond the resources of the local school.
- Refers students with exceptional abilities and needs to appropriate district personnel.
- Assists in the development and changing of curriculum to meet the needs of the student body.
- Completes random moment in time studies as required by MAC program guidelines.
- Performs other related work as required. Minimum Training and Experience:
- Master's degree in Counseling.
- Certification as a School Counselor. Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions:
- Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, etc.
- Must be able to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally; and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
- Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or composite characteristics of data, people or things.
- Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes giving instructions, assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
- Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, articles, proposals, contracts, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports, forms, evaluations, policies, etc. using prescribed formats.
- Requires the 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.
- Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal and counseling terminology.
- Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving of instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations. Other Requirements:
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