CUCAMONGA SCHOOL DISTRICT

CLASS TITLE:  CLINICAL SCHOOL COUNSELOR

BASIC FUNCTION: 

Under direction of the Assistant Superintendent, Personnel and Pupil Services, to provide behavioral and educational counseling with individuals (students/staff/parents) and small groups of students in a school setting; to assist students in understanding and seeking solutions to social, emotional or academic problems and issues; to serve as a resource pertaining to student behavior management strategies, follow up as needed related to school discipline concerns; and welfare and attendance problems and concerns; and to do other related functions as required.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES:

Performs a variety of individual and group counseling and guidance functions and activities, including social and emotional adjustment counseling;

Collects, organizes and analyzes student information through the use of educational historical data, test results and through the use of interview techniques; including universal screenings and knowledge of early intervention strategies;

Appraises student interests, aptitudes, abilities and attitudes utilizing a variety of strategies and techniques; career and guidance counseling;

Provides information and data to students regarding social interaction skills;

Serves as a resource to site and district personnel and members of the school community;

Meets, confers and counsels with parents, school personnel and members of various youth serving agencies in developing alternative solutions to student educational, social and emotional problems and concerns;

Creates and implements support groups for students and parents to promote continued social, educational and emotional growth and understanding;

Assists in the development and monitoring of individual education plans for students with exceptional needs;

Maintains a liaison with social service and your other service agencies in pursuing referral to appropriate agency;

Assists in identifying school program needs and participates in developing school instructional programs, master scheduling, and schedules geared to meet individual pupil needs;

Establishes, maintains and monitors the maintenance of a variety of files and records pertaining to student counseling, guidance, or related matters;

Assists in dealing with student behavior management problems, and in resolving welfare and attendance problems and concerns;

Plans, develops and presents, as requested, a variety of reports pertaining to site counseling, guidance functions and activities.

KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES: 

            KNOWLEDGE OF: 

Principles, methods, techniques, strategies and trends in educational, behavioral and social/emotional adjustment counseling;

Applicable and appropriate aptitude, interest and achievement appraisal instruments, techniques and procedures; knowledge of the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) process.

Social service and youth service agencies in the area;

Social, emotional and behavioral characteristics of kindergarten through eighth grade students;

Program evaluation and research techniques, strategies and procedures; and ability to provide in-service training. 

Appropriate curriculum and instructional programs pertaining to students with a variety of aptitudes and varying interests.

Knowledge and/or experience with a Special Education Level Plan Area (SELPA), school district operations and an array of Special Education placement and service options. 

            ABILITY TO: 

Assist students in effectively analyzing and developing alternative solutions to behavioral,  educational, social and emotional problems and concerns;

Conduct, analyze and effectively utilize a variety of individual and group testing procedures and instruments applicable to the K-8 student;

Effectively deal with site and district personnel, parents, social service and youth service agencies in resolving student problems and concerns;

Effectively participate in the planning and implementation of school guidance and curricular programs;

Communicate effectively in oral and written form;

Understand and carry out oral and written directions with minimal accountability controls;

Establish and maintain effective organizational, public and community relationships.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Equivalent to the completion of an earned Master=s or higher degree in psychology, counseling and guidance, or a closely related field.  Middle School teaching/counseling experience preferred. 

Two years of experience providing psychological counseling services (school based preferred). 

CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT: 

Possession of a valid California Pupil Personnel Services: School Counseling credential.

Possession of valid MFT license or valid MFCC license.

Possession of valid driver’s license.   

ENVIRONMENT:

Office and school environment.

PHYSICAL ABILITIES:

Ability to analyze and offer alternative problem solutions;

Mental acuity to manage assigned programs, interpret and implement rules relating to these programs, make policy decisions, evaluate results and make determinations relative to the effective performance of the tasks;

Facility to sit at a desk, conference table or in meeting rooms of various configurations for extended periods of time;

Facility to see and read, with or without visual aids, laws and codes, rules and policies and other printed matter;

Facility to hear and understand speech at normal room levels and to hear and understand speech on the telephone;

Facility to stand extended time and to walk extensively;

Manual dexterity to dial a telephone and enter data into a computer using both hands;

Facility to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal conversations, in training sessions, other meeting and on the telephone;

Physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and up to 50 pounds to waist height and to bend, stoop, walk and to reach overhead;

Facility to drive a car.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:

195 Days.

EVALUTION: 

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with Board of Trustees policy and provisions of the collective bargaining agreement.  The Principal and/or designee will give the evaluation. 

SALARY: 

Appropriate placement on the Management Salary Schedule. 

 Adopted: April 10, 2014