INSTRUCTOR/PKY - Secondary School Counselor (multiple positions)

Classification Title:

INSTRUCTOR/PKY

Job Description:

You belong at a K-12 teaching and learning environment that’s leading the way!

The Opportunity and Job Description

P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School (DRS) is seeking to hire multiple Secondary School Counselors for the current 2024-2025 school year with an anticipated beginning date of December, 2024 / January, 2025. Specific responsibilities include:

Academic Counseling and Support

• Provide academic counseling for assigned students.
• Monitor students’ academic progress, behavior, attendance, and well-being to facilitate/provide appropriate intervention as needed.
• Use relevant assessment data to make recommendations to students, parents, and teachers.
• Assist with preparation and administration of assessments.
• Interpret scores and communicate results to administration, faculty, students, and parents effectively.
• Support students’ academic, social, behavioral, and emotional success in a school organized to provide a multi-tiered system of supports.

Program Development and Implementation

• Plan and develop school counseling programs based on developmental needs of secondary students.
• Design and implement registration and scheduling for secondary students with the counseling team.
• Review, evaluate, and select a variety of materials to support a well-balanced counseling program for secondary students.
• Help lead planning and implementation of programs for career awareness and comprehensive educational/career plans.
• Implement, coordinate, and monitor personalized education plans for assigned students. 

Communication and Collaboration

• Communicate goals and services of the school counseling program to school administration, staff, students, and parents.
• Maintain regular parent communication (electronically, face-to-face, by phone).
• Collaborate with families and educators to assist students with educational, career, and life planning.
• Attend grade-level Student Success Team meetings and provide information regarding tiered support in school counseling.
• Collaborate with Exceptional Student Services Team Members to ensure planned social/emotional tiered support is provided.

Crisis Intervention and Student Support

• Recognize overt indicators of student distress or abuse and take appropriate intervention, referral, or reporting action.
• Provide crisis intervention services including follow-up services as appropriate and in collaboration with the school psychologist.
• Provide personal/social growth counseling (individual and group) regarding academic success, communication skills, decision-making, and effective coping skills.

 Monitoring and Evaluation

• Establish short and long-term plans based on student needs as well as school and state priorities.
• Implement, coordinate, and monitor school-wide counseling services and activities both within and outside the academic school day.
• Evaluate counseling program objectives using feedback from students, parents, and staff through needs assessments and online surveys.
• Analyze the impact of strategies, practices, and counseling curriculum on student success.

Professional Development and Ethics

• Participate in required professional meetings and trainings as assigned by administration/designee.
• Engage in annual cycles of professional learning.
• Participate in practitioner inquiry (research) to support professional learning and inform continuous program improvement.
• Act in a professional and ethical manner and adhere to the Code of Ethics and Principles of Professional Conduct.

School Community Engagement

• Participate in school-wide events, committees, and supervisory responsibilities to assure student safety.
• Organize and facilitate Parent Nights for families to be informed about postsecondary college and career opportunities (minimum 3 per year) both within and beyond the school day.

Additional Duties

• Maintain student records and appropriate contact meetings via Skyward and prepare all required reports.
• Participate in the formation of student IEP and 504 Pl