Counselor

GUIDANCE COUNSELOR

FLSA Status Exempt

WDOL Code and Title N/A

GS Pay-scale Equivalent GS-9

Background Check Required: Yes - pass a national FBI criminal history check using fingerprints, and not be

listed on the National Crime Information Center's National Sex Offender Registry.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

The Guidance Counselor assists students, peers, and subordinates in understanding the relevance of, and

promotes the development of positive social skills among students through modeling appropriate

behavior, positive intervention, and positively intervening and teaching appropriate employability skills

for workplace success.

Guidelines:

Participate in the Center Behavioral Management System (BMS) and/or the Student Code of Conduct

(SCC) program as necessary to insure proper workplace conduct, appearance and behavior. Set a positive

example as a role model to students by displaying appropriate etiquette, timeliness, and dress.

Worker Skills and Qualifications:

The Guidance Counselor is responsible for conducting initial counseling sessions.

Counselsstudents with establishing career goals, available educational and training opportunities, and

making appropriate plans.

Interprets test results to determine interest areas and strengths and weaknesses of student aptitudes.

The Guidance Counselor takes an active role in suggesting discussion topics, identifying thematic

problems or need, providing information, giving advice, directing the groups' attention to possible

alternatives to behaviors that have proven ineffective in the past, and encouraging the group to explore

effective and realistic alternatives for problem-solving.

Participates in the coordination of the Mental Health program and meets regularly with the mental health

consultant to discuss diagnosis, intervention, and provide behavior modification counseling as it

pertains to those students identified as "at risk."

Participates in staff training to include: new counseling techniques and methods, group counseling; and

identification and assessment tools. Monitors the quality and effectiveness of the educational, vocational,

and residential training components based on established and defined measures and advises managers and

staff members of findings.

Responsible for complying with safety instructions and regulations, ensuring individual's safety, and

promptly reporting unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, and accidents to supervisor and/or Center Safety

Officer.

Responsible for complying with the Policy and Requirement Handbook (ePRH), Center safety

instructions and policies, ensuring individual safety and promptly reporting unsafe acts, unsafe conditions,

and accidents to the Health and Wellness Manager (HWM), Center Director (CD), or Center Safety

Officer (SO).