PROFESSIONAL STAFF POSITIONS

TITLE: Elementary Guidance Counselor

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. A valid certificate as a guidance counselor.
2. A master's degree or its equivalent representing intensive course work in the principles and practices of educational guidance, educational testing and measurement, counseling, the organization and administration of guidance services and the psychology of learning.
3. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

REPORTS TO: Principal

FLSA STATUS: Exempt

JOB GOAL:

To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them making educational, occupational and life plans that hold promise for their personal fulfillment as mature and responsible men and women.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Counsel with students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related to attendance, home and family relations, health and emotional adjustment.
2. Provide group counseling and guidance activities for students and teachers.
3. Maintain student records and protect their confidentiality.
4. Work to resolve student's educational handicaps.
5. Work to discover and develop special abilities of students.
6. Participate in the transition between buildings.
7. Implement an in-service for test administration and interpretation for teachers.
8. Provide in-service training in guidance for teachers and student teachers.
9. Advise administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline.
10. Interpret the guidance program to the community.
11. Interpret test results to parents including results of the individual screening program, group achievement tests and intelligence tests.
12. Consult with parents regarding child development, socialization and parenting issues in addition to academic concerns.
13. Participate in the Individual Education Program staffing provided for every child who is to receive services relative to a handicapping condition.
14. Serve as liaison and also make referrals to agencies outside the school such as Department of Welfare, the courts, family services, psychiatrists and counselors.
15. Any other duties so assigned by the principal.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Salary and work year to be according to the current salary schedule and the Professional Agreement. Days in excess of the established work calendar shall be at the employee's regular daily rate.

EVALUATION:
Performance of this job will be evaluated annually in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on evaluation of professional personnel.

Approved: April 5, 1982
Revised: February 16, 1988
Revised: July 19, 2004

Fort Zumwalt School District, O'Fallon, Missouri