P-24-027 Guidance Counsellor

**Details of the position**

Job title:
Guidance Counsellor

School / Centre / Department:
Alexander Galt Regional High School

Location:
Sherbrooke (Lennoxville), Quebec

Workload:
100% / 35 hours per week

Annual salary (prorated to workload)

$55 282 - $97 963

Supervisor:
Director of Complementary Services

**Nature of the work**
- The position of guidance counsellor encompasses, in particular, responsibility for providing assistance, advice and guidance as well as evaluating the psychological functioning, personal resources and environmental conditions of students in the youth and adult sectors. He or she participates in developing and maintaining active adaptation strategies in order to enable students to make personal and professional choices suited to their personal characteristics and to their environment, while on their educational path

**Description of tasks**
- Participate in developing and implementing an academic and vocational guidance service, while respecting the academic and administrative requirements of both the educational institutions and the school board.
- Evaluate students (individual or group meetings) with respect to their interests, aptitudes, abilities, personality, professional experiences and personal needs, using appropriate methods such as psychometric tests, direct observations and information provided by teachers and other school resources and, where applicable, parents.
- Evaluate individually, as part of an individual education plan, a student's mental disorder, psychological functioning, personal resources and environmental conditions, including a student with a handicap or social maladjustment as well as a student suffering from a mental or neuropsychological disorder attested to by a diagnosis or an evaluation conducted by qualified personnel.
- Through individual or group counselling sessions, he our she helps a student to carry out a self-analysis and to build an overall image of himself or herself, explore and clarify his or her situation and determine personal and professional goals, grasp the information received, understand, assume, and overcome his or her personal and social problems.
- Provide support to students in their search for means aimed at enabling them to overcome the difficulties associated with their educational profile and their social and employment integration.
- Provide information and advice to parents on the measures required to provide help and guidance to the student in defining and carrying out his or her educational and career objectives.
- Contribute to the screening and identification of students experiencing difficulties, using an approach focusing on prevention and intervention.
- Work with a multidisciplinary team to draw up and review a student's individualized education plan by including his or her action plan in the plan.
- Participate in defining intervention objectives and means
- Work with other team members to ensure concerted and coordinated interventions and assess the achievement of objectives.
- Advise management staff, prepare expertise, evaluation, briefing, and progress reports and formulate appropriate recommendations to support decision making.
- Act as a resource person for the guidance-oriented approach, give advice to school resources, provide them with documentation, suggest activities that enable them to identify variables contributing to the student's personal, academic, and professional progress.
- Plan, organize, and deliver academic and vocational information activities dealing with program requirements, professionals and market trends.
- Coordinate and assume the activities of the documentation centre related to his or her specialty.
- Ensure the purchase and update of specialized reference materials and provide support to the students and staff using them.
- Establish and maintain relationships and collaborate with representatives of the labour market and or other organizations that could be involved in providing academic and vocational guidance to students.
- Prepare and update files according to the standards associated with the practice of the profession and the rules defined by the school board.
- Prepare progress notes or reports as well as end-of-process and follow-up reports on his or her interventions.

**Desired profile**

Be a member of the Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation du Québec.

**Other requirements**
- Demonstrate ability to work in French and English
- Well organized and able to prioritize
- Excelllent communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to build relationships with students