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 (Client) 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.
• Counsels students 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.