LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR (PART-TIME)

Company: Jenks Public Schools
Location: Jenks
Posted on: October 24, 2024

Job Description:

Jenks Public Schools Job Description

Position: Licensed Professional Counselor

Reports to: Principal and Director of Student Programs

Supervises: None

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in counseling or equivalent area.
• Previous training and experience in mental health.
• Licensed as a mental health professional.
• Satisfy all district requirements with regards to physical health and citizenship.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board of Education may find appropriate and acceptable. Position Goal: Identify and assist special education students, families, and the school district in overcoming barriers that interfere with learning through the use of counseling, consultation, coordination of school and community resources, and program development.
  
  Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
• Provide counseling for students with disabilities.
• Participate in Site Intervention Team meetings, IEP meetings, teacher staffings, and parent conferences, as needed.
• Provide behavioral consultations with parents and staff.
• Participate in departmental meetings.
• Provide professional development opportunities for staff regarding behavior assessments and intervention skills.
• Assess behavioral and emotional issues of referred students for purposes of IEP development.
• Maintain confidential, analytical, and anecdotal records for all referred students.
• Conduct individual or group counseling for students as specified in students' Individual Education Program (IEP).
• Facilitate the implementation of behavior intervention plans, as necessary.
• Collaborate with community mental health and social welfare agencies, as well as school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, and other staff as needed.
• Maintain current knowledge of developments in the counseling field.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  Employment Terms: Nine (9) months a year. Salary and work year to be established by the Board. Benefits as established by Board policy.
  
  FLSA Qualification: Non Exempt
  
  Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board of Education's policy on Staff Evaluation (2.21/classified).
  
  Physical Demands:
  
  This is an overview intended for compliance with the ADA - it is not an exhaustive list of the duties to be performed. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions of a specific position.
  
  Regular Requirements: Stand for extended periods; sit for extended periods; twist at the neck and trunk; bend at the waist; stoop, kneel, crouch; lift/move up to 20 pounds; handle objects and tools with hands; repetitive use of fingers and hands.
  
  Occasional Requirements: Reach with hands and arms overhead, above shoulder and horizontally; lift/move up to 40 pounds.
  
  Visual Requirements: Close, color, peripheral, depth perception, ability to adjust focus.
  
  Hearing/Speaking Requirements: Adequate to exchange information.

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