Job Details

Position Type:
Student Support Services/Counselor

Date Posted:
8/23/2024

Location:
Lorrie Yeager Juvenile Center - Wood County

County:
West Virginia Schools of Diversion & Transition POSITION TYPE: Professional

ADMINISTRATIVE UNIT: WV Schools of Diversion and Transition

EMPLOYMENT TERM: 240 days

TYPICAL WORK HOURS: Operating hours of host agency, as specified by the school principal.

SALARY: Pursuant to WV Code §18A-4-17, salary based on experience and education level per CBOE salary schedule plus competitive benefits package (WVSDT Benefits & Total Rewards) equal to approximately 35% of direct compensation.

JOB SUMMARY: The school counselor will be responsible for addressing student roadblocks to achievement and guiding them in educational, occupational and life decisions that will impact their development into productive and responsible individuals.

1. Assists in the process of student intake and orientation.
2. Assumes responsibility for educational records including the transfer of records, evaluating students' credits, developing and maintaining grade reports and transcripts, protecting confidentiality of records, and documenting the results of conferences with students.
3. Prepares and sends to the home school of record documentation of any grades and /or credits earned.
4. Prepares and sends to the home school of record an appropriate "Memorandum of Understanding" for junior and senior students as they prepare for graduation.
5. Administers and interprets assessments to aid in finding student strengths, weaknesses, aptitudes, and interests.
6. Works effectively with the building administrator to coordinate state required assessments.
7. Gathers, analyzes, and interprets student data for IPTP, IPP, SAT and MDT meetings.
8. Assists in the coordination of the special education process.
9. Facilitates the implementation of the social skills and transition curriculum.
10. Implements strategies through direct and indirect services to support the delivery of a comprehensive developmental guidance curriculum to students, as set forth in Policy 2315, in the areas of academic, career, and personal development.
11. Maintains appropriate balance in the delivery of the guidance program for the guidance curriculum, individual student planning, responsive services, and system support.
12. Assists host agency staff, when appropriate, concerning crisis intervention needs.
13. Works cooperatively with other educational staff to develop a meaningful and realistic educational/vocational (IPTP/IPP) plan for each student.
14. Assists students with developing positive coping skills and behaviors through individual or group environments.
15. Facilitates exit planning to assist in transitional services, thus providing linkages to help students re-enter school, work, home, and community life.
16. Communicates with other school personnel, family members, and other key adults to assist with transition support.
17. Maintains a positive working relationship with education, treatment, and the host agency staff.
18. Assumes responsibility for maintenance of continuing education and knowledge of current trends in the profession of school counseling.
19. Complies with the host agency's policies and procedures.
20. Completes and submits all reports required by the WV Schools of Diversion and Transition in a timely manner.
21. Develop and maintain all aspects of student records and school data in WVEIS including, to not limited to; instructional master schedule, student schedules, grade report, transcripts.
22. Performs other duties as required by the assigned school principal or administrator.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Required:
1. Holds or qualifies for a student support certificate in counseling for the required grade level(s), pursuant to West Virginia State Board of Education Policy 5202.
2. Possesses the knowledge skills and ability to successfully (a) perform the job requirements (b) work within the special setting of a residential school, and (c) work as part of a rehabilitation team in concert with others.

Desired:
1. Experience in the counseling of troubled youth.
2. A minimum of three (3) years of school counseling experience.
3. Experience with all aspects of WVEIS.

EXPECTATIONS:

1. The staff member works effectively as a member of the educational team.
2. The staff member demonstrates self-control and exhibit an attitude of mutual respect and tolerance.
3. The staff member has excellent communication skills, oral and written.
4. The staff member demonstrates ethical conduct and good work habits including self-motivation and the ability to manage multiple tasks to accomplish high-quality work to meet demanding deadlines.
5. The staff member demonstrates self-direction and the ability to use software applications for personal productivity and collaboration.
6. The staff member demonstrates an ability to work effectively with county personnel and other state or local agencies.
7. The staff member understands that work assignments may change, or be added, as priorities emerge within the WVSDT.

EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP:
Department of Education staff are employed upon recommendation of the State Superintendent of Schools and are state employees. No representative or employee of the state is authorized to enter into any employment contract or other agreement. Department staff work under the direction of the State Superintendent of Schools for the general supervision of the free schools in the state and implementing the policies of the board and other necessary tasks as determined by the State Superintendent of Schools or his/her designee. Each employee is "at-will" and subject to termination by the State Superintendent of Schools at any time, with or without notice, cause or compensation.

The employment relationship between the State Superintendent of Schools and the employee may be terminated by either party. Reasons for termination by the State Superintendent of Schools include, but are not limited to, immorality, incompetency, cruelty, insubordination, intemperance, willful neglect of duty, unsatisfactory performance, the conviction of a felony or a guilty plea or a plea of no contest to a felony charge, misuse of funds or property, violations of law or policies of the state board, lack of need, or a lack or loss of funding.