A current vacancy exists for a Middle School Counselor within the Norristown Area School District located at Eisenhower Science and Technology Leadership Academy. 

Qualifications: 

• PA Certification in Guidance and Counseling 
• Experience working with middle school age students preferred 
• Spanish Speaking preferred

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations 

• Ability to write reports and business correspondence

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions 

• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Counsel at strategic intervals with students who are having academic, behavioral, and/or social-emotional problems

• Select and administer special purpose tests designed to yield information helpful to the student/counselor

• Assure that each student has the benefit of placement services – either from the individual counselor or by cooperative arrangement within the pupil personnel team

• Assure that a system of student personal and educational records is maintained and updated periodically

• Coordinate the maintenance and growth of a library of student guidance information and materials: personal, social, occupational, and educational

• Ascertains that parents of students who have been systematically identified as having academic, behavioral, and/or social-emotional problems are informed concerning the problems and that they are invited to cooperate with the student, the counselor, and the school toward a solution to the problem(s)

• Establishes and maintains parental awareness of the guidance function, its place, and its importance by periodic and continuing use of newsletters, brochures, and other communication techniques

• Meet periodically with administration and staff to improve intra-building communication concerning general understanding and awareness of student’s needs, student characteristics, and the central place of those factors in all professional planning

• Communicates the needs of individual students to appropriate professional personnel, when those needs become apparent

• Alerts the professional staff to the need for, and preparation for, identification of students who have educational, emotional, or social problems, or who appear to be inclined toward such problems

• Cooperates with building administration as it plans and conducts student orientation programs

• Establishes and maintains effective liaison relationships with community agency resources

• Collaborates with school team to analyze data and determine appropriate interventions
• Conduct risk/threat assessments for students in need
• Facilitate, conduct, and assist in the implementation of FBAs and PBSPs for students

Salary:

2023-2024 salary schedule (Teachers contract is currently under negotiation) The rates below are the current rates:

Bachelor's - $51,733 to $57,899(Step 5)

Bachelor's + 24 - $54,987 to $62,383(Step 5)

Master's - $58,074 to $66,699 (Step 5)

Master's + 15 - $60,547 to $69,608(Step 5)

Master's + 30 - $63,019 to $72,515 (Step 5)

Master's + 45 - $63,484 to $72,999 (Step 5)

Doctorate/Master's + 60 - $63,947 to $73,485 (Step 5)