Guidance Counsellor

Job Responsibility:

Qualifications:

Be a member of the Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d'orientation du Québec (OCCOPQ)

Other Requirements:

• Experience working with adolescents and adults
• Bilingual
• Knowledge of the QEP and MEES graduation requirements
• Understanding of options beyond youth sector (e.g., Adult Education, Vocational Training, Postsecondary programs)
• Willingness to assist with student registration and course change process at the school and center
• Ability to offer counselling support to students individually or in groups (e.g., Bereavement, divorce, career awareness, and stress management)
• Assist in the coordination of School/School Board events (Open-House, Mini-Day, Career Fair, )
• Familiarity with responses to critical incidents/traumatic events
• Ability to work with individuals/groups
• Ability to lead in-service sessions for school staff
• Evidence of continuous professional growth
• Knowledge of the Québec system of education

Nature of the work

The position of guidance counsellor encompasses, in particular, responsibility for evaluating, advising, helping, guiding and supporting students in the youth and adult sectors in developing their career plans and in choosing an educational path suited to their personal characteristics.

Daily Tasks/Dossiers

• Ability to work with students, groups of students or parents, help them identify difficulties and support them in exploring solutions;
• Ability to help defuse crisis or emergency situations and to propose solutions;
• Ability to collaborate as an active member of a multi-disciplinary school resource team;
• Ability to prepare and update files according to the standards associated with the practice of the profession and the rules defined by the school board; prepares progress notes or evaluation, end-of-process, and follow-up reports for interventions.
• Ability to act as resource person for the guidance-oriented approach, gives advice to school resources, provides documentation, suggests activities that enable to identify variables contributing to the student's personal, academic, and professional progress.