Mason City Schools - School Counselor Tier II/III

Mason City School District
Position:  School Counselor 
Location: Mason Early Childhood Center

We are seeking dynamic individuals for the position of  School Counselor.  The successful candidate(s) will be committed to the highest personal and professional standards. 

Performance Responsibilities:

• Assists students in understanding themselves in relation to the social and psychological world in which they live.  (individually or in groups)
• Assists students to develop within themselves personal decision-making competencies.
• Gather meaningful information regarding students and interpret appropriate information, with due regard for confidentiality, to the student, parent(s), teachers, and other professionally concerned personnel.
• Serves as case manager and facilitates T2-3 student meetings
• Support and coach teachers in T2-3 behavior planning as Case Manager
• Provides input to teachers on developing interventions and on progress monitoring tools for T2-3 behavior plans
• Collaborate with prevention and wellness team for referrals to appropriate community and mental health agencies
• Serve as liaison between school, family, student and community
• Assist with pre-school behavioral counseling needs
• Responds to students in crisis
• Assists in identifying special needs of students, i.e., educational needs, health conditions, vocational/career needs, emotional needs.
• Coordinates the use of all services beyond those which he/she can provide by acquainting students, parents and teachers with such services; making appropriate referrals; maintaining liaison and cooperative working relationships with other pupil personnel specialists and agencies basically concerned with such special services.
• Assists in the selection and administration of standardized tests and the recording and interpretation of the test results.
• Serves as a consultant to members of the administration and the teaching staff, making available to them appropriate student data; helping identify students with special needs and problems; participating in or conducting inservice training programs; assisting teachers in securing materials and developing procedures for a variety of classroom group guidance experiences; participates as needed or directed by administrator.
• Continues to improve professional competencies by reading professional literature, participating in professional workshop and graduate courses, engaging in self-evaluation experiences, and meeting with personnel from various community resources to supplement guidance services.
• Provides individual counseling to referred students on an ongoing basis.
• Forms and leads group sessions on various topics of concern.
• Provides in service to staff on how to deal with students who have social emotional concerns.
• Offers parenting groups on different topics.
• Works cooperatively with the school nurse in providing health information to students.
• Assists in program planning for the year -- testing, parent meetings, career programs, group guidance, etc.
• Meets with administrators on scheduling, attendance, and any other new programs or policies which we may have to interpret to parents and students.
• All other duties assigned by administration 
  
  Other minimum qualifications include:
  1.   Valid Ohio School Counselor Certification/Licensure
  2.   Willingness to work as a member of a collaborative team
  3.   Establish a positive rapport with students, families and staff
  
  Interested individuals must complete an application in the AppliTrack system for consideration. Please ensure that you upload a resume to the system as well.
  
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