REPORTS TO: School Principal
DEPARTMENT NAME:
JOB SUMMARY (2-3 sentences): Counsel individuals and provide group educational and vocational guidance services.
PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS: List, in the order of time spent, the essential tasks performed by the position. Employees may be assigned additional duties by management as required.
The statements in this job description are not an exhaustive list of all essential functions, duties and skills. Other duties may be added or deleted and this description may be amended at any time.
Job Responsibilities:
•Counsel individuals to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations.
•Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.
•Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss children's progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their resource needs.
•Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
•Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
•Evaluate students' or individuals' abilities, interests, and personality characteristics using tests, records, interviews, or professional sources.
•Identify cases of domestic abuse or other family problems and encourage students or parents to seek additional assistance from mental health professionals.
•Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.
•Provide special services such as alcohol and drug prevention programs and classes that teach students to handle conflicts without resorting to violence.
•Conduct follow-up interviews with counselees to determine if their needs have been met.
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES, REQUIREMENTS, AND IMPACTS
DATA RESPONSIBILITY: "Data Responsibility" refers to information, knowledge, and conceptions obtained by observation, investigation, interpretation, visualization, and mental creation. Data are intangible and include numbers, words, symbols, ideas, concepts, and oral verbalizations.
Compiles, examines, or evaluates data or information and possibly recommends action based on results.
PEOPLE RESPONSIBILITY: "People Responsibility" refers to individuals who have contact with or are influenced by the position.
Mentors others by advising, counseling, or guiding them regarding problems that may be resolved by scientific or other professional principles.
ASSETS RESPONSIBILITY: "Assets Responsibility" refers to the responsibility for achieving economies or preventing loss within the organization.
Requires responsibility and opportunity for achieving considerable economies and/or preventing considerable losses through the management of a large division or minor department, and/or handling of very large amounts of money.
MATHEMATICAL REQUIREMENTS: "Mathematics" deals with quantities, magnitudes, and forms and their relationships and attributes by the use of numbers and symbols.
Uses addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; may compute ratios, rates, and percentages.
COMMUNICATIONS REQUIREMENTS: "Communications" involves the ability to read, write, and speak.
Reads technical instructions, charts, and/or procedures manuals; composes routine reports and completes job forms; speaks compound sentences using standard grammar.
COMPLEXITY OF WORK: "Complexity of Work" addresses the analysis, initiative, ingenuity, creativity, and concentration required by the position and the presence of any unusual pressures.
Performs coordinating work involving guidelines and rules with constant problem solving; requires continuous, close attention for accurate results or frequent exposure to unusual pressure.
IMPACT OF DECISIONS: "Impact of Decisions" refers to consequences such as damage to property, loss of data or property, exposure of the organization to legal liability, or injury or death to individuals.
Makes decisions with moderate impact - affects those in work unit.
EQUIPMENT USAGE: "Equipment Usage" refers to inanimate objects such as substances, materials, machines, tools, equipment, work aids, or products. A thing is tangible and has shape, form, and other physical characteristics.
Handles machines involving moderate latitude for judgment regarding attainment of standard or in selecting appropriate items.
SAFETY OF OTHERS: "Safety of Others" refers to the responsibility for other people's safety, either inherent in the job or to assure the safety of the general public.
Requires considerable responsibility for the safety and health of others and/or continuous enforcement of the laws and standards of public health and safety.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: "Education Requirements" refers to job specific training and education required for entry into the position.
Masters' Degree in School Counseling
LICENSES, CERTIFICATIONS, AND REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED: "Licenses, Certifications, and Registrations" refers to professional, state, or federal licenses, certifications, or registrations required to enter the position.
TN School Counseling certification
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: "Experience Requirements" refers to the amount of work experience that is required for entry into the position that would result in reasonable expectation that the person can perform the tasks required by the position.
Minimum of five years directly applicable experience supervising a work team.
More specific degree, certification, and experience requirements will be included in the position announcement as vacancies occur.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES REQUIREMENTS
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: "Physical Demands" refers to the requirements for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.
Standing and walking: generally 8 hours per day (fully functioning)
Lifting and carrying: frequently lifting 40 lbs and occasionally lifting 70 lbs
Push and pull: unlimited grasp and fingering
Dexterity: ability to operate machines, tools or office equipment
Additional requirements: unlimited reaching to shoulder height; frequently climbs stairs; exposure to heat extremes. Serenity
UNAVOIDABLE HAZARDS: "Unavoidable Hazards" refers to unusual conditions in the work environment that may cause illness or injury.
The position is exposed to extreme heat/cold, wet or humid conditions, bright/dim lights, dust or pollen, intense noise levels, vibration, fumes or noxious odors, moving mechanical parts, disease/pathogens, and traffic.
SENSORY (ADA) REQUIREMENTS: "Sensory Requirements" refers to hearing, sight, touch, taste, and smell necessary to perform the tasks required by the position efficiently.
The position requires normal visual acuity and field of vision, hearing, speaking, color perception, sense of smell, and depth perception.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT COMPLIANCE
Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires MNPS to provide adequate accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are encouraged to discuss ADA accommodations with Qualifications:
See job description.
