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Arizona Department of Economic Security High School Counselor in Kingman, Arizona

This job was posted by https://www.azjobconnection.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.azjobconnection.gov/jobs/6658177

Kingman Unified School District invites you to apply for this full-time Lee Williams High School Counselor position for the 2024-25 school year.

Summary/Objective

Advise and assist students and provide educational guidance services.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions:

  1. Respond to all internal and external customers, as it relates to job, in a prompt, efficient, friendly, and patient manner.
  2. Assess and counsel students based on observations, conversations and test results.
  3. Provide support services in the areas of academic programs, team teaching, school rules, and other matters.
  4. Counsel individual students to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their education.
  5. Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss childrens progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their developmental needs.
  6. Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur.
  7. Refer severe problems to appropriate community resources.
  8. Provide personal counseling for students, families and groups relative to self-understanding, acceptance of responsibility, and decision-making skills.
  9. Provide group counseling to promote interaction and communication, and to support skill development.
  10. Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
  11. Administer tests in areas such as organization, memory skills, aptitude and preferences, as appropriate.
  12. Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
  13. Maintain the confidentiality of protected student and staff member information even after no longer employed
  14. Maintain knowledge of and adhere to all policies, regulations and rules
  15. Perform related duties as assigned in a safe and prudent manner

Other Duties

This job classification is not a comprehensive listing of duties, responsibilities, or activities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice.

Competencies

  1. Ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
  2. Ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
  3. Ability to actively listen, taking time to understand the points being made and asking questions as appropriate.
  4. Ability to develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintain them over time.
  5. Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions.
  6. Ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong.
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