Certified School Counselor

Calling all School Counselors!! Richard Milburn Academy seeks a School Counselor (9-12).

Excellent Benefit Package!!

Interested applicants should submit their resume and an employment application. Please contact Mr. Sands with questions at 386-304-0086.

Job Purpose: Responsible for planning and implementing a Comprehensive School Counseling Program to ensure all students graduate high school with a post-secondary plan.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

1. Design and implement a data-driven, comprehensive school counseling program for all students to address barriers to student learning.

2. Spend a minimum of 80 percent of time providing direct and indirect services and 20 percent in program planning and school support activities.

• Direct services include, but are not limited to, school counseling core curriculum, individual counseling and student planning, classroom lessons, small group counseling, and preventative and responsive services.

• Indirect services on behalf of students include, but not limited to, referrals for additional assistance and consultation/collaboration with parents, teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders to create a learning environment promoting educational equity, access, and success for every student.

3. Deliver programs that promote students’ development of essential mindsets and behavior standards including, but not limited to, learning skills, social skills, self-management skills, and college/career readiness skills.

4. Review and disaggregate student achievement, attendance, and behavior data to identify and implement interventions with current knowledge of grade level promotion and retention criteria (HIGH SCHOOL - graduation requirements).

5. Use school data to identify and assist individual students who do not perform at grade level and do not have opportunities and resources to be successful in school.

6. Create yearly, data-driven goals that advance student outcomes in areas of academic, social/emotional, and college/career development.

7. Use the skills of leadership, advocacy and collaboration to create systemic change to improve the academic, social/ emotional, and post-graduate success of all students.

8. Conducts credit checks with students and monitors at-risk students to ensure on-time graduation.

9. Act as a system change agent in collaboration with the school leadership team to ensure a safe, supportive, and respectful school climate that promotes the social/emotional and academic development and success of all students.

10. Foster family and community partnerships to support the social/emotional, academic and career development of all students.

11. Infuse cultural competence, ethical and professional competencies in planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating the comprehensive school counseling program.

12. Provide preventative education and skill building along with counseling for students during times of transition, separation, heightened stress and critical change.

13. Use appropriate responses and a variety of intervention strategies to meet the needs of the individual, group or school community before, during and after crisis response.

14. Support the continuum of mental health services, including prevention and tiered intervention strategies, and collaborate with both school-based and community mental health providers to enhance student success.

15. Develop and communicate a school counseling mission statement that is specific, concise, clear and comprehensive, describing a school counseling program’s purpose and vision of the program’s benefits for every student in alignment with the school, district and state missions.

16. Use student data to demonstrate a need for systemic change in areas such as course enrollment patterns; equity and access; and achievement, opportunity and/or information gaps.

17. Advocate for student equity and access to a 21st century education that fosters college and career readiness and promotes post-secondary success.

18. Analyze and report outcomes of the school counseling program and goals, which are presented in the context of the overall school and district performance.

19. Utilize technology effectively and efficiently to plan, organize, implement and evaluate the comprehensive school counseling program.

20. Use legal and ethical decision-making based on standards and principles of the school counseling profession and educational systems, including district and building policies.

21. Collaborate with school staff in the analysis of student performance data, rigorous goal setting, and development of effective action plans for improving academic, social/emotional outcomes for all students.  

22. To perform other duties as directed by Principal / Administrator.

Qualifications:

1. Master’s Degree in School Counseling

 2. Hold a valid Florida Educator Certificate in School Counseling (PK – 12)

Required Skills:

1. Demonstrates the ability to design, implement, analyze, and document outcomes of a comprehensive school counseling program based on national and state standards.

2. Demonstrates the ability to support student achievement, social/emotional development, and college/career readiness.

3. Demonstrates the ability to work with diverse groups.

4. Demonstrates knowledge of technology and software applications appropriate to job responsibilities.

5. Demonstrates strong computer, written and verbal communication skills, including presentations, publications, and report writing.

6. Demonstrates competence in data analysis to identify student issues, needs and challenges.

7. Ability to communicate and work effectively with students, parents, school-based staff, and community members.

8.Ability to exercise sound judgment in handling problem situations with competence in interpersonal relations skills.

9. Ability to engage in physical activity appropriate to the required task, except for temporary disability.

10.Ability to exercise sound judgment in handling sensitive and confidential information.