LTS School Guidance Counselor - Marple Newtown School District

Applications are now being accepted for a Long Term Sub Guidance Counselor Loomis Elementary School.

Date of Posting: October 8, 2024

Title: School Counselor

Certification: PDE School Counselor

Duration: January 2, 2025 - May 6, 2025

Primary Function: To assist the District with counseling students in the areas of personal, social, vocational/occupational, and educational development and other areas in a confidential manner.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

(These are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.)

• Counsel students in the areas of personal, social, vocational/occupational, and educational development.
• Assist teachers in developing sensitivity to the particular needs of individual students and in utilizing referral procedures.
• Assists faculty with the development and implementation of best practice(s) necessary to differentiate instruction to meet the needs of students with diverse learning styles.
• Make use of tests data, psychological assessment findings and other available data and resources.
• Advise on the selection and use of appropriate group and individual tests, measures and inventories dealing with academic progress and achievement, interests inventories, social adjustment, physical growth and development, special aptitudes and intelligence quotients or factors.
• Assist in the educational and employment placement of students and graduates.
• Conduct individual and group guidance activities.
• Teach courses or provide group guidance related to career information, educational requirements and opportunities, job application and interview procedures.
• Participate in individualized education program planning, and other similar activities that supplement the total guidance and counseling program objectives.
• Confer and meet regularly with building and district administrators, department chairpersons and others to assess the need for training sessions or changes in existing programs.
• May provide school staff development activities.
• Works with building principals on curricular needs within the building and provides assistance in developing and promoting in-service programs.
• Collaborates with principals in assessing student learning and evaluating assessment tools.
• Supports the district-wide technology plan and its integration with curriculum and instructional delivery.
• Reviews and recommends the purchases of programs, materials, and equipment
• Promotes an organizational climate that results in positive staff morale and openness in the district.
• Prepares periodic reports.
• Maintains personal professional growth and development through attendance at seminars and workshops.
• Maintains professional affiliations to keep abreast of the latest trends in field of expertise and technology.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

Valid Pennsylvania certification. Possesses knowledge of current trends in student development, professional practices and assessment; excellent communication and human relation skills; strong organizational skills; possesses a multi-disciplinary perspective, and has a background in technologies use in assessment and data collection and analysis.

If you are offered a position with Marple Newtown School District, please be advised that the following information will be required before you are able to begin working:

State Police Clearance (Act 34)- complete online and print your results immediately
Child Abuse Clearance (Act 151)- effective 12/31/14,submit electronically

FBI Fingerprints (Act 114)- register & pay online, then go to the fingerprint location of your choice to be printed

School Health Record- includes physical & tb test from within a year
Act 24 (PDE Form 6004)- Arrest/Conviction Report
PA Sexual Misconduct/Abuse Disclosure Release-

A separate form must be completed for:

1. Current employer; and
2. All former employers that were school entities; and
3. All former employers where you were in a position that involved direct contact with children.

The Marple Newtown School District is an equal opportunity education institution and will not discriminate in its educational programs, activities or employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, ancestry, disability or other legally protected classification. This policy is in accordance with state and federal laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; the Age Discrimination Act of 1975; and The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Inquiries may be directed to Human Resources at 610-359-4380.