MILFORD SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
Job Description - School Counselor
QUALIFICATIONS: Qualifications/certifications: State of Maine Certification 075
REPORTS TO: Building Principal
JOB GOAL: To encourage and support all students in areas of academics, social/emotional learning, and career/college readiness.
Responsibilities
- Deliver guidance curriculum to meet the educational needs of students in PreK-8th grades in the areas of academic, career/college readiness, and social emotional learning. This can be accomplished in the following ways.
- Regular classroom instruction.
- Small group instruction
- Individual intervention and/or crisis management as needed.
- Meet student’s immediate needs through responsive services such as individual/small group counseling (short term), crisis intervention, prevention, referrals to outside agencies for more intensive services, peer mediation, and follow up.
- Support Dr. Lewis S. Libby School’s core values, care, respect and responsibility through instruction and modeling.
- Engage in RTI and PBIS system/team.
- Advocate for students, staff, and community.
- Use data to make informed decisions around curriculum and interventions.
- Develop and follow procedures for counseling referrals of students to succeed in school.
- Consult with teachers, parents, administrators, and school staff to help all students achieve success in the school setting.
- Coordinate 8th grade transition to area high schools.
- Refer Students, parents, and teachers to appropriate community, state, or private helping agencies when needed.
- Review new student files and transfer outgoing student records.
- Performs other duties and completes responsibilities as may be assigned by the administration.
The Milford School Department does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, ancestry or national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, or physical or mental disability in admission to, access to, treatment in or employment in its programs and activities.
