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Posted:
April 21, 2020
Location:
North Palm Beach, Florida
Salary:
Based on qualifications
Type:
Full Time - Faculty
Category:
School Counseling
Required Education:
4 Year Degree

Position Title: Student Services Counselor 

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Start Date:             August 1, 2020

Reports to: Lower School Head and Director of Student Services, Pre-K 3 - 8

 

Position Summary

Works with students, parents, and faculty to support each student’s overall success and serves as a clearinghouse for all student concerns that intrude on learning

Key Expectations of all TBS employees:

    • Demonstrates support of the school’s mission and policies
    • Consistently models The Benjamin School values 
  • Builds positive interpersonal relationships with colleagues by establishing effective communication through listening, responsiveness, openness, availability, and approachability  
    • Takes initiative and ownership in displaying positive work ethic and behaviors and encourages this attitude in others  
  • Maintains proficiency in the field through personal and professional development that strengthens the role and the school

 

Essential Functions

  • Teaches in-class guidance classes grades 3, 4, 5, 7 
  • Provides individual and group counseling for grades 3, 4, 5 and shares counseling responsibilities in Middle School
  • Leads grade level meetings 3, 4, 5, creates and oversees follow-up plans
  • Schedules and/or attends parent/teacher conferences involving Student Services, documents meetings and assists with follow-up
  • Assists with relevant grade-level community services projects (3, 4, 5, and Middle School)
  • Assists with organizing and attending parenting workshops
  • Attends Educational Planning meetings and monitors resulting accommodations and strategies (3, 4, 5 and Middle School)
  • Attends Middle School Faculty and Grade Level meetings
  • Attends Lower School Grade Chair and Faculty meetings
  • Works closely with the Head of Lower and Middle Schools, Lower and Middle School Deans of Students, and Nurses 
  • Attends weekly Student Services meetings
  • Coordinates Red Ribbon Week on L/M campus
  • Member of the Crisis Management Team
  • Liaison to outside professionals and agencies 
  • Maintain records of all MS students’ individual community service hours
  • Coordinates the Middle School Advisory Program 
  • Completes all work and assigned tasks in a timely, efficient, accurate, and organized manner
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Required Skills and Abilities:

  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to prioritize and work independently and address several challenges simultaneously
  • Possession of pleasant and collaborative style in the workplace including professional attitude
  • Ability to communicate effectively with all constituents in a school environment
  • Well versed in technology, various software suites and office equipment related to the position
  • Ability to maintain the confidentiality of information

Education and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s Degree required and 5 years of experience in a similar position 

Physical and Work Requirements:

  • Prolonged periods of time sitting at a desk and working on a computer
  • Occasional movement about the office and lift and/or move up to 15 pounds
  • Ability to work in excess of 8 hours a day, as well as evening and weekend hours as necessary for events and projects
  • Travel required for meetings, events, professional development 

Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Please email a resume and letter of interest to ls.openings@thebenjaminschool.org. Please, no telephone calls.

 DFWP/EOE

About The Benjamin School
General Information: The Benjamin School is an independent, non-affiliated day school for 3-year-old pre-kindergarten to 12th-grade students in Palm Beach County. The School resides on two campuses; the 14 acre Lower and Middle School campus in North Palm Beach and the 50 acre Upper School campus in Palm Beach Gardens. Approximately 155 teachers and associates are responsible for about 1060 students. The Lower School currently serves 455 students in grades Pre-K 3 through 5; the Middle School enrolls 203 in grades 6-8, and the Upper School has 403 students in grades 9-12. The School’s rigorous and varied program prepares its students for acceptance to 4-year colleges. The Benjamin School’s core is academics, with a balanced emphasis on athletics and the arts. The Lower School challenges students with an academic program that includes, among other strong elements, highly developed research-based instruction in language arts and mathematics and a strong Pre-K 3 to 5th-grade world language program. In the Middle School students are challenged with a wide variety of college preparatory courses including advanced world language instruction, Algebra I and Geometry and advanced ...science programs. At the Upper School campus, the faculty offers courses on three levels: regular, honors, and AP. Each May the School administers 600 or more AP examinations to all of the students enrolled in its 22 AP courses. In May 2017 eighty percent of those tests received qualifying scores of at least a 3, and 89 percent of the students taking the tests earned at least one 3 or better. More than 200 students took one or more AP exam. The Upper School also has more than 50-semester electives. Students can study Spanish, French, and Mandarin Chinese to satisfy their language requirement. In all three divisions, students have many opportunities to be involved in dance, instrumental (including strings) and vocal music, drama, and the visual arts. Students in all three divisions also have a physical education program, and those in the Middle and Upper Schools must participate in one or more team sports. The School makes extensive use of technology in its programs. All classrooms have an interactive whiteboard (Smartboard or Epson), and all computers on both campuses have internet access via school-wide Wireless access. The third, fourth, and fifth-grade students bring iPads to school each day. The Middle School has a BYOD program, and in the Upper School, all students own and use laptops or iPads. The School also provides specialized computers for video editing, digital graphics, desktop publishing, and the computer lab. Mission Statement: The mission of The Benjamin School is to provide a challenging college preparatory education to a diverse student body in a structured, nurturing community environment. The School motivates students to master the skills of learning, communicating and evaluating choices, encourages them to grow intellectually, socially, morally, aesthetically, and physically to their fullest individual potential. Benjamin inspires in its students a coherent set of values that include a love of learning, personal responsibility, self-motivation, concern for others and a desire to serve society.
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