Long Term Substitute - School Counselor

Position Type :

Substitute / Long Term Substitute

Date Posted : 8 / 12 / 2025

Location :

Silvermine Elementary School

Date Available : August / 2025

2025-2026 SCHOOL YEAR

LONG TERM SUBSTITUTE

SCHOOL COUNSELOR

SILVERMINE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

JOB SUMMARY

The K-12 school counselor provides academic; career; college access, affordability and admission; and social-emotional competencies to every student annually by helping design, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive evidence-based school counseling program in each district school. The school counselor provides an annual plan and advising to every student, classroom school counseling lessons in collaboration with other educators for all students, group and individual counseling for some students. The school counselor also provides additional school-wide activities that promote student success helping to close achievement, opportunity, and attainment gaps, increase student career / college success, and improves mental health / well-being. The school counselor is an advocate, leader, and change-agent partnering with colleagues inside the schools, in the community, and with family members for optimal student success. The school counselor is supervised by the Director of School Counseling in consultation with the building principal.

Services to Students

• Plans, delivers, and evaluates school counseling interventions to help close achievement, opportunity, and attainment gaps.
• Delivers academic success skills including : organization, time management, study skills to all students annually.
• Delivers career development skills including assessments, career clusters, use of Occupational Outlook Handbook (embedded in Naviance), creating resumes / cover letters, job shadowing / searching techniques.
• Delivers college access / affordability / admission skills to all students with attention to first-generation students, students with disabilities, and students needing affordability resources.
• Provides social-emotional skills to all students including anti-violence / anti-bullying, stress management, cultural diversity, and strategies to improve energy / mood Ensures every student has an annually updated ACCESS & Accomplishments Plan.
• Ensures ethical practice by using a decision-making model and sharing most recent updates of the ACA, ASCA & NACAC codes of ethics with all stakeholders.
• Coordinates orientation for new and transfer students and families.
• Applies developmental, learning, counseling, and education theories.
• Uses Mindsets & Behaviors for Student Success standards (ASCA) in the school counseling program.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the impact of cultural, social and environmental influences on student success and opportunities.
• Designs and implements instruction aligned to Mindsets and Behaviors in Classroom, Group, and Individual Settings.
• Provides appraisal / advisement in Classroom, Group, and Individual Settings.
• Provides short-term counseling in Group and Individual Settings.

Collaboration with School and Professional Staff

Liaison and Collaboration with Outside Resources

Planning and School Counseling Program Development / Evaluation

Qualifications / Certificates :

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

Days : Monday - Friday

Salary : In alignment with NFT contract

40+ Days : $264.66

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www.norwalkps.org / applynow

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NORWALK IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

It is the policy of the Norwalk Board of Education to ensure equal educational opportunity for all students and to prohibit unlawful discrimination because of race, color, religion, creed, age, marital status, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, transgender status or physical and mental disability in the school district's educational program and activities; and to prohibit unlawful discrimination in employment because of race, color, religion, creed, age, marital status, national origin, gender pregnancy, veteran status, gender identity or expression, transgender status, sexual orientation or physical and mental disability.

08.14.2025