Reports To: Building Administrator
FSLA Status: Exempt
Compensation: 015 (Salary determined by education and experience.)
Work Days: 181
FTE: 100
Elementary Counselor
Position Summary:
The counselor promotes student success, provides preventive services, and responds to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive developmental school counseling program that addresses academic, career, and personal/social development of students.
Essential Duties: - Develops and manages a comprehensive school counseling program for elementary students.
- Delivers the counseling curriculum to all students focusing on Academic, Career, and Personal/Social Domains.
- Designs, delivers, evaluates and revises a planned sequential developmentally appropriate program in accordance to district counseling standards and indicators.
- Facilitates the infusion of counseling curriculum activities into classroom curricula to support the developmental needs of students.
- Facilitates instructional process in collaboration with school staff and community resources.
- Counsels with students to promote self-awareness and positive social and academic skills
- Informs students and parents about pertinent test results, academic programming, behavior intervention strategies, and their implications to the overall academic success.
- Provides individual and group counseling to students with identified concerns and needs.
- Implements a referral process and follow up process to outside counseling agencies and support agencies.
- Provides information to staff and parents to assist them in crises related issues that may effect the school climate.
- Consults and coordinates within district professionals and community agencies, such as school psychologist, nurses, administrators, community based counselors, service agencies, and physicians.
- Manages activities that establish, maintain, support, and enhance the total school counseling system.
- Advocates for equal access to programs and services for all students.
- Plans and coordinates programs that are an extension of the counseling program, i.e., Individual Education Plans, Child Study Team, red ribbon week, student of week etc.
- Coordinates parent programs.
- Participates in school decision making.
- Adheres to laws, policies, procedures, and ethical standards of the school counseling profession.
- Participates with the administration and faculty as a team member in the implementation of the district testing program.
- Collects and reviews evaluative data to ensure a successful counseling program which links the school counseling program to student academic progress.
- Measures results of the school counseling program activities and shares results as appropriate.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- To ensure continuity of services, alternative work site may be necessary in the event of a health crisis or disruptive situation that requires the closing of school and/or office buildings. An employee’s eligibility for alternative work site will be determined by the superintendent of schools. Expectations and guidelines for alternative work site will be distributed by the employee’s supervisor, based on his/her role and responsibilities.
Job Specifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
Minimum Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills and/or Abilities Required): - Master’s Degree in counseling or related field.
- Oklahoma Teaching Certification in Elementary Education in areas listed below or Alternative Teaching Certification as approved by Oklahoma State Department of Education.
- Elementary Counselor (K-8), School Counselor (PK-12 or All)
- Must possess ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
- Must possess the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, staff, parents, and the community.
- Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with others, demonstrate self-discipline and initiative, follow state and district guidelines.
Physical/Mental Requirements:
- Must have adequate manual dexterity to write legibly and perform required duties on the computer.
- Must have adequate visual acuity to read, interpret and transcribe written material and other required duties.
- Requires normal range of hearing and clear speaking abilities to interact appropriately with others in person and on the telephone.
- Requires some stooping, bending, stretching and occasional lifting not to exceed 50 pounds.
- Sitting for prolonged periods of time.
- May periodically require work outside of normal business hours, including weekends, under sometimes stressful conditions in order to meet business needs and strict deadlines.
Work Environment: - Office duties will be performed in a well-lighted, climate-controlled environment.
This job description is not intended to be all inclusive. The employee will also perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the supervisor or appropriate administrator. Oklahoma City Public Schools reserves the right to, update, revise or change job duties as the need prevails. This document is for communication only and not intended to imply a written or implied contract of employment. The Board of Education and Superintendent may approve alternatives to the listed qualifications.
