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Position Posting:  School Counselor - Grades K-4

 

Qualifications:   Nebraska Teaching Certificate with proper endorsement

                                                                

Compensation:   Per Salary Schedule

 

Employment:   2024-2025 School Year

 

Reports To:   Building Administrator, TBD

 

Applications Will Be Accepted Until Position is Filled

 

Join Tiger Nation! Salary placement is based on experience and education.

 

District contributes to health insurance upon enrollment.

 

FPS is a diverse, forward-thinking, Class A district located just 25 minutes northwest of Omaha and 45 minutes north of Lincoln. We offer a small town atmosphere and big city opportunities. Learn more about us at fremonttigers.org

 

Must have a Nebraska teaching permit with proper endorsement.

 

FPS values professional growth and supports a New Teacher Mentorship Program and Professional Learning Communities.

 

New Teachers are offered a one-time salary advance opportunity to increase their August paycheck. We want to assist in all ways possible through the transition into the teaching profession.

 

Paid Leave: 4 Personal Days; 9 Sick Days; 5 Bereavement Days; Civic Leave; and Professional Leave as determined by administrators. Certified staff also administer a Sick Leave Bank that all certified staff are eligible to join on an annual basis. Teachers who are parents or guardians of an FPS student can also use up to 4 sick days, per year, to attend FPS-sponsored activities for their child.

 

Retirement: FPS is a member of the Nebraska Public Employee Retirement System

 

FPS provides all certified team members long term disability, a $10,000 individual life insurance policy, and quarterly perfect attendance bonus opportunities.

 

Additional benefits offered at employee expense include: health, dental, and vision insurance, additional voluntary life insurance, tax-sheltered annuities (403b), flexible spending accounts, and supplemental policies via AFLAC and Colonial Life such as short term disability, accident insurance, group cancer insurance, and hospitalization/critical illness insurance.

 

Application Procedure:  Interested and qualified applicants must apply online at fremonttigers.org. Click on Employment, current openings, and follow application instructions. 

 

All positions are subject to veterans preference. EOE

 

 

FREMONT PUBLIC SCHOOLS

 

JOB DESCRIPTION

 

DEPARTMENT:

GUIDANCE

 
   

JOB TITLE:

GUIDANCE COUNSELOR - ELEMENTARY
   

REQUIREMENTS:

  

A. Education Level:

Masters's Degree in Guidance and Counseling in Elementary Education

B. Certification/Licensure:

Nebraska Teaching Certificate

C. Experience Desired:

Minimum of three years successful teaching experience.

D. Other Requirements:

Demonstrates ability to effectively communicate with other people and to recognize their needs.

Demonstrates ability to effectively use counseling skills.
   

REPORTS TO:

Building Administrator and Executive Director of Student Services.
   

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

  
   

Basic:

To assist in providing for the needs of the students. Contacts with the students are for the purpose of dealing with student plans, choices, problems, and self-understanding. Provide adequate time for individual counseling, group counseling, parent conferences, and consulting with family, teachers, and administrators.
   

Frequent:

1. To work closely with faculty and administrators to insure our goal of serving the needs of the students.

2. To help the teachers to understand the learning and

personality dynamics of their pupils.

 

3. To help the students in understanding and working with their peer group, parents, teachers, and other school personnel.

4. To help students to develop an awareness of themselves and to gain the self-confidence needed to pursue their life's goals.

5. To accumulate, interpret, and pass on meaningful information about the student's abilities, interests, etc., if beneficial to all those involved. This can be done in written form, staffings, or by word of mouth.

6. To establish good home/school relationships, make proper referrals when students with serious emotional and behavioral problems are recognized, and work closely with community agencies whenever possible.

7. To work with resource personnel (such as ESU) to aid us in providing programs for students on drug education, value clarification, career education, etc.

8. To provide inservice programs for teachers that will increase their skills in the area of student/teacher relationships, and will meet the needs of the individual teacher.

9. To assist the Special Education Department by processing all referrals for evaluation (including re-evaluation, intellectual, achievement, or behavior), proper handling of parental permission slips, setting up all necessary staffings, and making necessary schedule changes.

 

 

 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

 

 

NEVER

0%

OCCASIONAL

1 –32%

FREQUENT

33 – 66%

CONSTANT

67%+

A. Standing

    

x

  

B. Walking

    

x

  

C. Sitting

    

x

  

D. Bending/Stooping

  

x

    

E. Reaching/Pulling/Pushing

  

x

    

F. Climbing

  

x

    

G. Driving

  

x

    

H. Lifting, 50# Max**

        

I. Carrying, Ft. 1 - 100**

        

J. Manual Dexterity Tasks: Fingering 33-66%, Grasping 33-66%
         

Specify (manual dexterity tasks): Ability to operate computer, manipulate keyboard, A-V equipment, etc.
         

OTHER REQUIREMENTS (Intellectual, Sensory): Visual and auditory acuity for student supervisory functions, skills in oral and written communication, and skills in human relations.
         

WORKING CONDITIONS:
 

A. Inside – Outside – Both: Inside
         

B. Climatic Environment: Primary work environment is a heated, non-air conditioned classroom or building, and in some cases, classrooms may be air conditioned.
         

C. Hazards: Communicable diseases, classroom, building, furniture, and equipment.