Fresh Vacancies at Noble Hall Leadership Academy for Girls

Reports to: Principal

Job Description

• Would possess the professional training and demonstrates those skills needed for his/her guidance and counseling responsibilities.
• The counselor implements the counseling program.
• The counselor helps students to seek solutions to their problems.
• The counselor facilitates the school’s planning and placement of his/her students and assists in the planning for post-secondary school interests.
• The counselor consults and informs parents and school professionals about the impact of the school environment upon students.
• The counselor maintains pertinent student personnel records and interprets those in an ethical manner.
• The counselor performs professional responsibilities necessary for the maintenance of the school’s educational environment.

Performance Responsibilities

• Develops,  implements, teaches and revises curriculum related to the competencies of the guidance program.
• Conducts research in pertinent areas to update and add to the curriculum.
• Plans and participates in parent seminars as related to group guidance curriculum.
• Assists in the coordination of career/occupational domain by supporting students, career days, shadowing experiences, and mentorships.
• Assists teachers in the implementation of special service programs and the mainstreaming of special service students.
• Masters the computer technology needed to perform daily guidance tasks.
• Keeps accurate records in all facets of the guidance program.
• Attends professional conferences, seminars, and earns additional credit to stay current with contemporary issues in the area of guidance.
• Assists in the preparation of the annual budget for the guidance department.
• Assists in the development of annual and long-term guidance goals.

Job Requirements
Skills:

• Requires demonstration of individual and group counseling skills; collaborative skills; teaching and coaching skills; service-oriented skills; supervisory skills; leadership skills; problem-solving skills; verbal and written communication skills; organizational skills; data analysis skills; and technology skills in the areas of guidance management, information resources, student programming, instructional interventions, office software, student database systems, and office equipment operation.

Abilities:

• Requires significant confidentiality responsibilities, excellent attention to detail and follow through, resource management.
• Requires ability to develop constructive partnerships with students, staff, and families.
• Plan, organize, implement, and administer guidance, counseling, life, career planning through development programs.
• Recognize substance and abuse and implement crisis prevention and intervention strategies; advocate for students.
• Integrate guidance counseling programs within the school curriculum; identify student needs successfully.

go to method of application »

Reports to: Principal

Purpose

• Whole-school teaching and learning responsibility in the area of SEN Inclusion.

Job Responsibilities
Teaching and learning:

• Identify and adopt the most effective teaching approaches for SEN learners.
• Monitor teaching and learning activities to meet the needs of SEN learners.
• Promote Inclusion best practice and contribute to the aims and ethos of the school

Recording and assessment:

• Set targets for raising achievement among SEN learners and other groups as appropriate.
• Collect and interpret specialist assessment and performance data and share with other staff as appropriate.
• Set up systems for identifying SEN, and assessing and reviewing SEN provision. This includes creating and monitoring Individual Educational Plans (IEPs), provision maps with class teachers.
• Update the principal and directors on the effectiveness of provision for SEN children.
• Keep parents informed about their child's progress through individual meetings and at parents’ meetings.
• Assist the Exams Officer in making applications for additional support, time and/or specific papers for the end of Key Stage assessments.
• Maintain the SEN register.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of provision.

Leadership:

• Provide training opportunities for parents and teachers to learn about Inclusion, including whole-school Inset.
• Disseminate good practice in Inclusion across the school.
• Identify resources needed to meet the needs of SEN learners
• Work with the Principal and Directors on the strategic development of SEN & Inclusion, including reviewing and formulating appropriate policies.
• Support learner progress meetings, recording agreed provision within provision maps.
• To keep abreast of developments in SEN (e.g. research, changes to the law) and inform staff and directors as necessary.
• Lead CPD on inclusion matters as needed across the school.
• Model good practice in teaching learners with SEN

Other and Responsibilities:

• To willingly undertake any reasonable task requested by the Principal from time to time to support the safeguarding of staff and learners.
• To be willing to undertake the role of Designated Child Protection Co-ordinator.