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William Penn School District

Guidance Counselor Pool (2022-23 School Year) (13POOL)

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TitleGuidance Counselor Pool (2022-23 School Year)
Posting ID13POOL
Description

Position Title:

Guidance Counselor Pool (2022-23 School Year)

Bargaining Unit:

William Penn Educational Association - 10 month

Effective Date:

August 25, 2022

 

Job description last updated: 5/31/2022

 

Position Summary: The ideal candidate will promote student success, provide preventive services, and respond to identified student needs by implementing a comprehensive school counseling program that addresses academic, career, and personal/social development for all students. The school counselor will support students in the areas of academic achievement, career and college planning, and personal and socioemotional development. They will also serve as a consultant and partner with educators, families, and community members. Applying for this position enables candidates to begin the eligibility screening process; school-specific opportunities will be posted starting in mid-April 2022 and then on a rolling basis as additional opportunities are known.

 

District Summary

The William Penn School District is Located in southeastern Delaware County and serves approximately 5,000 students who reside in Aldan, Colwyn, Darby, East Lansdowne, Lansdowne, and Yeadon Boroughs. We share a collective vision to educate, nurture and empower all students to become career and/or college ready.

 

Key Responsibilities & Essential Duties: 

  • Advises and counsels students regarding academic, educational, and short-term social and emotional problems. 
  • Remains universally accessible and makes an effort to know every student for whom they are responsible. 
  • Provides individual student planning and responsive services to support students and their families regarding academic matters. 
  • Teaches guidance classes and provides guidance counseling to students through planned activities in small group or classroom settings to convey educational, social, and important school information, and offers workshops/seminars for parents. 
  • Consults, facilitates, and maintains communication with parents, teachers, administrators, and pertinent agents on specific student and parent academic and educational matters including academic modifications and/or accommodations.
  •  Provides feedback and recommends appropriate action and solutions to individual student’s academic and educational needs and abilities. 
  • Assists students/parents in understanding school policies and procedures. 
  • Provides brief counseling to address social and emotional concerns and appropriately refers students to behavioral health specialists. 
  • Communicates, coordinates, and collaborates with behavioral health specialists on developing and implementing student supports. 
  • Supports, facilitates and attends appropriate student activities and events. 

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

  • Knowledge/awareness of own cultural identity and how this influences behavior, and desire to learn about the cultural identity of others. 
  • Ability to establish and nurture an environment that promotes cultural competence and equitable treatment of staff, students, and patrons of the District. 
  • Ability to understand and hold self and others accountable for promoting and attaining the goals as outlined in Focus Forward 2025
  • Ability to recognize that each person is a unique individual even as we celebrate their group cultural heritage. 
  • Knowledge of PA Core Standards and Eligible Content 
  • Knowledge of Instructional Planning Guides as it relates to the instructional block 
  • Knowledge of Digital Curriculum components 
  • Ability to courageously lead conversations focused on equity, closing opportunity gaps, and equal access to technology-infused lessons of rigor. 
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with District staff and administrators, students, parents or guardians, outside agencies, and the public, in a multi-ethnic, multicultural, multilingual environment. 
  • Ability to receive and implement feedback to improve practice and systems.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree from accredited college or university
  • Valid Pennsylvania Certification: Elementary and Secondary School Counselor (PK-12), Elementary Counselor, or Secondary School Counselor, or a confirmed pathway to certification

Pre-employment Paperwork Requirements:

  • Pennsylvania Criminal Background Check, FBI Fingerprinting Background Check, Pennsylvania Child Abuse Clearance
  • Sexual Misconduct/Abuse Disclosure Release (Act 168) forms 
  • School Personnel Health Record and TB test

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements:

  • Work scheduled hours on a consistent basis
  • Indoor office environment is subject to frequent interruptions
  • Pushing, moving and lifting objects with a strength factor of light work
  • Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a variety of standard office equipment
  • Clarity of vision at varying distances
  • Verbal, auditory and written capabilities to effectively communicate in an articulate manner
  • Sitting and standing for extended periods of time
  • Frequent sitting, standing and walking
  • Reaching overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally to retrieve and store files and supplies
  • Lifting objects with a strength factor of light work
  • Occasional bending, reaching and stretching
  • Occasional kneeling, crouching and squatting
  • Occasional pulling, pushing

Level of Compensation: $49,674 - $100,607 (dependent on Step and Track placement as determined based on collective bargaining agreements)

 

Disclaimer:

The preceding list is not exhaustive and may be supplemented as necessary. The statements contained herein reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job, the scope of responsibility, and the level of knowledge and skills typically required, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements, skills or duties so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside their normal responsibilities from time to time as needed.

 

All employment open positions are made available on a nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, gender, age, disability, or veteran status.

 

Job descriptions are written as a representative list of the ADA essential duties performed by the entire classification. They cannot include and are not intended to include, every possible activity and task performed by every specific employee.

 

 

Shift TypeFull-time 10-month
Salary RangePer Year
LocationDistrict Wide

Applications Accepted

Start Date03/14/2022
End Date08/31/2022