Beginning Date: 20-21 School Year

Starting Salary: 

Level I--$42,212.95
Level II-$51,489.80
Level III-$61,539.30

Qualifications:

Master's Degree. Valid/Current New Mexico license in Guidance/Counseling.

Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and

acceptable.

REPORTS TO: Principal.

JOB GOAL:

To help students resolve personal, emotional, and social problems which interfere with

their adjustment to school and their capacity to set goals for a productive future.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Perform counseling service with individual students to correct those personal, academic social, or emotional maladjustments related to their educational and social progress.

Perform counseling service with parents as an integral part of the task of helping

students, to increase the parents’ understanding, their constructive participation in

resolving their child’s problems and their knowledge and use of appropriate resource

available.

Collaborate with parents in networking for positive student change.

Supervise the referral of students to, and serves as liaison with, such outside agencies as

the Welfare Department, Child Placement Bureau, Juvenile Court, and the like, as

appropriate.

Make home visits for the purpose of gathering helpful information on a student’s

background.

Work to discover and develop special abilities of students.

Work with students on an individual or group basis in the solution of personal problems

related to such problems as home and family relations, health and emotional adjustment,

and improving social skills.

Provide in-service training in guidance for teachers and student teachers.

Provide system support.

Consulate with teachers and other staff members to familiarize them with the general

range of services offered by the student personnel services department, and to improve

the educational prospects of individual students who begin counseling.

Provide crisis intervention as needed.

Consult teachers and provide classroom guidance lessons.

Provide case management as needed for child/family when immediate needs threaten the

ability of a child to be mentally and/or physically able to progress in the classroom.

Serves as facilitator of Child Study Teams throughout the year

Perform other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met

by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use

hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear. 

The employee is required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. 

The employee must lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. 

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color

vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to

perform the essential functions.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:

182 contract days.  Salary and benefits commensurate with contractual

commitments.

EVALUATION:

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with administrative procedures

and established contractual protocols.

Revised May 2013