School Counselor - Hillsboro R-3 Schools
Position: | School Counselor |
Subject Area: | (none) |
Job Title: | Guidance Counselor K-6 |
Job Location: | Hillsboro R-III School District |
Beginning: | Jul 01, 2025 |
Deadline: | Open until filled ** |
District: | Hillsboro R-3 Schools |
Hillsboro, MO 63050 | |
Telephone: |
636-789-0000 EXT 6040 |
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Job Description:
JOB TITLE: Counselor K-6
REPORTS TO: Building Principal
SALARY SCHEDULE: Certified Teacher Schedule
FULL BENEFIT PACKAGE includes Medical, Dental & Life Insurance
Career Ladder eligible
START DATE: 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR
POSITION SCHEDULE: In accordance with the District Calendar + 10 days (193 days)
SALARY RANGE: $48,197 - $82,051 Salary dependent on years of experience & education.
CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: School Counselor Certification
POSITION SUMMARY
Establishes and implements comprehensive developmental guidance and counseling programs to ensure that students achieve success through academic, career, and personal/social development experiences at Hillsboro School District.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
JOB TITLE: Counselor K-6
REPORTS TO: Building Principal
SALARY SCHEDULE: Certified Teacher Schedule
FULL BENEFIT PACKAGE includes Medical, Dental & Life Insurance
Career Ladder eligible
START DATE: 2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR
POSITION SCHEDULE: In accordance with the District Calendar + 10 days (193 days)
SALARY RANGE: $48,197 - $82,051 Salary dependent on years of experience & education.
CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: School Counselor Certification
POSITION SUMMARY
Establishes and implements comprehensive developmental guidance and counseling programs to ensure that students achieve success through academic, career, and personal/social development experiences at Hillsboro School District.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
- Collects, organizes, and analyzes information about individuals through records, tests, interviews, and professional sources, to appraise their interests, aptitudes, abilities, and personality characteristics, for vocational and educational planning.
- Studies and makes appropriate recommendations relative to student-at-risk program.
- Strives to establish individual relationships with students based upon personal knowledge of their interests, goals, and backgrounds.
- Assists students in developing favorable social attitudes and habits of responsibility.
- Compiles and studies occupational, educational, and economic information to aid counselees in making and carrying out vocational and educational objectives.
- Counsels students to understand and overcome social and emotional problems by helping them to understand and gain control of their social interactions and relationships with others.
- Administers evaluates and interprets group and individual tests as required.
- Provides information relative to educational planning, scheduling and enrollment for students and parents.
- Guides students in helping them to value and appreciate the opinion and contributions of others.
- Assists students in developing problem-solving and decision making skills.
- Serves as a resource person for teachers, administrators, and parents to focus and coordinate the school program for the individual child.
- Provides information relative to vocational planning including specific jobs and various job clusters
- Assists students and teachers to locate career information related to students' interests and aptitudes, or demonstrates use of, internet, files, shelf collections, and other information retrieval systems.
- Establishes and maintains appropriate working relationships by actively communicating with parents.
- Facilitates the Care Team.
- Participates in professional organizations, professional growth activities such as appropriate seminars, courses, workshops, and staff development activities.
- Conducts annual studies of the school population as directed by the principal.
- Assists with the collection and maintenance of cumulative records of students.
- Formulates annual recommendations to the Principal for group guidance activities and carries out the agreed upon group guidance program.
- Participates and serve as LEA for IEP meetings.
- Contributes to the decisions made by the District and building regarding budget, facilities, curriculum, and personnel well-being.
- Certified Teacher Evaluation
- Master’s Degree from four-year College or University and a minimum of one year of experience.
- Missouri State Department of Education – Counseling Certificate.
- The employee may frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, precise hand-eye coordination and the ability to identify and distinguish colors. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use repetitive wrist, hand and/or finger movement; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
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