AB Staffing is looking for experienced School Counselors for the upcoming 2025/2026 school year.
Counselors needed throughout Virginia; multiple locations available across the entire state.
Pay:
- Starting at $42-45/hour DOE and location.
Requirements:
- Virginia Department of Education license in School Counseling OR Virginia Dept. of Health license for LPC.
- Experience with preschool and school-aged populations is preferred.
- Must possess strong communication and organizational skills.
- Must demonstrate initiative and the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Must have the ability to stand or sit for extended periods of time; see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in person and on the telephone; and the ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions; May include frequent walking, standing, stooping, lifting up to approximately 25 pounds and occasional lifting of equipment and/or materials weighing up to approximately 40 pounds may be required.
School Counselor Job Description:
- Openings in Elementary, Middle, and High School - Caseload and details of position/classroom type will differ based on school location.
- Contract through the 2025/2026 school year - 37.5 to 40 hours per week.
- Contract follows the academic district calendar.
Essential Functions:
- Works to resolve students' educational handicaps; works to discover and develop special abilities of students; works to prevent students from dropping out of school.
- Helps register students new to the school and orients them to school procedures and the school’s varied opportunities for learning; provides assistance to students in course and subject selection; maintains student records and protects their confidentiality.
- Assists students on an individual basis in the solution of personal problems related to such situations as home and family relations, peer relations, health, and emotional adjustment; is available to students to provide counseling in such areas as personal growth, self-understanding, and maturity.
- Conducts small group counseling on student-selected and counselor-identified topics such as study skills, social skills, anger management, self-esteem, changing families, and grief.
- Obtains and disseminates occupational information to students and to classes studying occupations; helps students evaluate career interests and choices; may organize and conduct career day.
- Provides crisis counseling when needed, for prevention, intervention, and follow-up, with referrals, when necessary, to community resources.
- Offers in-service training in school counseling topics for staff; collaborates with administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline, developmental issues, and identifying significant behaviors such as suicide, self-harm, and depression.
- Takes an active role in interpreting the school's objectives to students, parents, and the community at large; confers with parents whenever necessary.
- Performs other related work as assigned.
Benefits:
- Dedicated and experienced Education Specialists here to serve you.
- Competitive Benefits Package.
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance plans available.
- 401(k) and Flex Spending available.
- Paid vacation time upon eligibility.
- Referral bonuses.
- WEEKLY Direct Deposit.
AB Staffing Solutions, LLC is an EOE, including disability/vets.