POSITION TITLE: School Counselor
SUPERVISED BY: Principal
FLSA STATUS: Part-time (3/5), non-exempt
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 2025
COMPENSATION: $52.25-82.08 per hour depending on education and experience

Position Summary
This is a 3/5ths position providing academic and personal support for Piro Scholars, students enrolled in a comprehensive program for first-generation, college-bound students from low-income and historically underrepresented communities. This counselor will work closely with the Director of the Piro Program as well as with Counseling Department colleagues.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Model Lasallian/Vincentian charisms;

• Support SHC?s mission, philosophy and Integral Student Outcomes;

• Facilitate student learning through both academic development and social emotional well-being;

• In collaboration with department colleagues, facilitate the efforts of students to achieve the Counseling and Advising department goals;

• Promote positive and effective working relationships among school counselors and college advisors, and with SHC teachers, administrators, parents/guardians, and external agencies;

• Collaborate on the development and implementation of the SHC Counseling Curriculum, regularly meeting with and communicating with groups of counselees;

  • Maintain Counseling Group pages on our learning management system (Schoology), providing students and families with timely and useful information;

  • Collaborate with the Health Education Department and the Mental Health Specialist/Wellness Coordinator in the development of a cohesive wellness curriculum.

• Respond to and support students experiencing anxiety, grief, or other mental health difficulties, addressing both immediate concerns and liaising with off-campus therapists and on campus wellness counselor/mental health specialist when needed;

• Meet with students, their families, and teachers, to support student learning and to ensure successful navigation of the SHC curriculum to:

  • Meet SHC graduation requirements, including understanding prerequisites for honors and AP courses, Wellness and co-curricular participation;

  • Facilitate required or optional summer school attendance; and

  • Access each student?s optimal post-secondary educational opportunity;

• Respond to communication from students, teachers, parents, or administrators within 24 hours, not including holidays and weekends;

• Monitor students? academic achievement weekly and follow up with students, teachers, and parents to address deficiencies in a timely manner;

• Collaborate with department colleagues and teachers to help students who are diagnosed with learning differences while at SHC to employ effective learning strategies;

• Consistently and confidentially document all contacts with students, parents/guardians, teachers, administrators, and other personnel in the school?s student information system (PowerSchool) within 24 hours, excluding holidays and weekends, of the contact;

• Serve as the liaison between families, school, and medical care providers for counselees who are absent from school for significant periods of time, with a goal of minimizing disruption in course completion;

• Assist in the administration of annual standardized testing, such as the PSAT and AP exams;

• Assist in the administration of extended time finals in collaboration with the Academic Resource Specialists;

• Collaborate on periodic presentations to colleagues and families on academic and social emotional skills and challenges;

• Engage in professional learning as an essential part of being a reflective practitioner and as part of the school?s ongoing commitment to excellence;

• Actively participate in SHC?s strategic initiatives to strengthen meaningful diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging practices, especially strategies to support equitable learning, culturally responsive teaching, social emotional learning, and universal design for learning (as stipulated by the DEIB strategic plan adopted by SHC Board of Regents in 2021);

• Participate in schoolwide liturgies, assemblies, admissions events, and professional development opportunities as a member of the SHC community;

• Engage in the mission of SHC and the charisms of the Daughters of Charity and De La Salle Christian Brothers and Department of Catholic Schools through formation programs.