.5 Counselor/.5 Social/Emotional (2022-23 School Year)
Cotopaxi School District - Fremont RE-3
Job location
Cotopaxi, CO, USA
Job details
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• 5 Counselor/.5 Social/Emotional
Description & Details
Cotopaxi Consolidated Schools, located in School District Fremont RE-3, is currently seeking a .5 Counselor/.5 Social/Emotional to utilize leadership, advocacy, and collaboration to promote student success, provide preventive services, and respond to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that addresses academic, career, and social/emotional development for all students. Both roles would equal a 1.0 FTE, position or full time equivalent with benefits for the 2022-2023 school year.
Responsibilities
• Deliver counseling services by means of presentations in the classroom, small groups, and individual sessions.
• Deliver professional training to staff as appropriate.
• Counsel students to encourage and support student achievement and improve functioning of behavioral and educational areas.
• Counsel students regarding educational issues such as course and program selection, class scheduling, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career and college planning.
• Provide counseling to help students understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral challenges affecting their educational or vocational situations.
• Provide guidance and support student achievement including the exploration of postsecondary options.
• Create and update accurate and complete student records as required by law, district policies, and administrative regulations.
• Collaborate with parents or guardians, teachers, other counselors and support staff, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral, academic, and other challenges.
• Develop appropriate community partnerships to support student educational success.
• Provide crisis intervention to students.
• Meet with parents and guardians to determine individualized needs, discuss student progress, and provide corresponding resources.
• Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Provide counseling services that will support career exploration, identify individual student strengths, and align future coursework with student’s passions.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree or higher in School Counseling as defined by accreditation by the Counsel for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs
• Current Colorado Department of Education Special Service Provider License with School Counselor Endorsement or ability to obtain qualifications and certifications
• Experience and/or knowledge working with students.
• Experience and/or knowledge in the implementation of inclusion experiences for students within the school setting and the community.
• Creative and positive communication skills with the ability to problem solve effectively.
Experience And/or Knowledge
• Knowledge of child and adolescent social/emotional development
• Knowledge of general organization and functions of a public school system.
• Knowledge of data collection and the ability to interpret data.
• Knowledge of research and evidenced-based interventions related to academic, career social and behavioral concerns.
• Ability to be flexible in order to meet the unique needs of the assignment.
• Ability to work effectively as member of multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to communicate clearly in both written and oral formats.
• Ability to demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Ability to plan and organize completion of projects.
• Ability to adapt to a changing work environment with a positive attitude and problem solving approach.
• Ability to remain calm in an emergency situation.
• Ability to work independently without direct supervision
• Ability to multitask and prioritize student, staff, parent and community needs
• Proficiency with MS Office and other computer software programs.
• Demonstrates respect for children, teenagers, and adults.
Organizational Relationships
Reports to Principal and Superintendent
Physical Demands With Or Without Reasonable Accommodation
The physical demands, work environment factors, and mental functions described below are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; sit; use hands and fingers to handle, or feel.
• The work requires the use of telephone and using fingers to operate computer or typewriter keyboards.
• The employee is continually hearing and speaking to exchange information.
• The employee is required to reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Ability to be on feet up to eight hours every day. The work is mostly walking and standing with periods of sitting.
• Typical positions require workers to lift and carry up to 50 pounds; climb stairs, bend and crouch; reach, hold, grasp and turn objects; use fingers to operate computer or typewriter keyboards; and feel the shape, size and temperature of objects.
• The work requires the ability to speak normally, to use normal or aided vision and hearing, detect odors, identify colors, see, write, count, read, speak, analyze, alphabetize, perceive depth, operate a motor vehicle, and operate motor equipment.
• Conditions include working inside and outside, working around machines with moving parts and moving objects, working closely with others, working alone, and traveling by car, van, bus
