School Counselor, Lincolnton High School

Date: May 21, 2025

Position: School Counselor

Location: Lincolnton High School

Reports To: Principal

Terms of Contract: 10 months, full-time, benefit eligible

Monthly Salary: Teacher State Salary Schedule (plus local supplement)

FLSA: EXEMPT

PO # 332.306

Qualifications/Requirements: Enrollment in an accredited school counselor preparation program and completion of a minimum of 24 graduate semester hours of that program; or,

Completion of a master's degree in addiction; career; clinical mental health; clinical rehabilitation; college counseling and student affairs; marriage, couple, and family counseling; or rehabilitation counseling from a regionally accredited college or university and enrollment in an accredited school counselor preparation program to complete additional master's level courses needed to add school counseling specialization.

Both options require completion of remaining school counselor preparation program requirements within three years.

Goal: To help students overcome problems that impede learning and to assist them in making educational, occupational, and life plans that hold promise for their personal fulfillment as mature and responsible men and women.

Duties:

• Aid students in course and subject selection
• Obtain and disseminate occupational information to students and to classes studying occupations
• Assist students in evaluating their aptitudes and abilities through the interpretation of individual standardized test scores and other pertinent data, and work with students in evolving education and occupation plans in terms of such evaluation
• Work to discover and develop special abilities of students
• Work to resolve students' educational handicaps
• Register students new to the school and orient them to school procedures and the school's varied opportunities for learning
• Work to prevent students from dropping out of school
• Help students evaluate career interests and choices
• Remain readily available to students so as to provide counseling that will lead each student to increased personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity
• Work with students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related to such problems as home and family relations, health, and emotional adjustment
• Guide students in their participation in school and community activities
• Maintain student records and protect their confidentiality
• OR
• Initiate, assemble, maintain, and interpret accurate health records, attendance records, cumulative progress records, activity records, and uniform transcript records for assigned students
• Make recommendations to colleges for admissions and scholarships
• Provide student information to colleges and potential employers according to provisions of the Board's policy on student records
• Confer with parents whenever necessary
• Assist in the orientation of new faculty members
• Assist with MTSS and supplemental interventions for student success
• Work with teachers and other staff members to familiarize them with the general range of services offered by the student personnel services department, and to improve the educational prospects of individual students being counseled
• Advise administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline
• Take an active role in interpreting the school's objectives to students, parents, and the community at large
• Interpret the guidance program to the community
• Work with school-based Therapists
• Must be able to perform heavy work exerting in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of forces frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to lift objects
• Other duties as assigned

Application Deadline: Position Open Until Filled

Position Available: September 14, 2026

Application Process: All candidates are required to complete an on-line application via Applicant Tracking. Please go to the Lincoln County Schools website (www.lincoln.k12.nc.us), select EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, and APPLICANT TRACKING to begin the process. Questions should be addressed to the contact person below.

Kristie Ballard, Principal

kballard@lincoln.k12.nc.us

Lincolnton High School

803 N. Aspen Street

Lincolnton, NC 28092

Phone: 704-735-3080

Fax: 704-736-4234

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

EMPLOYER DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ON BASIS OF AGE,

HANDICAP, NATIONAL ORIGIN, RACE, RELIGION, OR SEX