Job Description

Job Responsibilities: = The Services required are set out as follows: 1. To meet up with students who require intervention. To engage and interact to build rapport with students. To use counselling s Job Responsibilities: = The Services required are set out as follows: 1. To meet up with students who require intervention. To engage and interact to build rapport with students. To use counselling skills & techniques to encourage the discussions of emotions and experiences so as to understand the educational macro and microsystem of the students. 2. To help identify precisely the underlying issues such as social or emotional disadvatages, discrimination, poverty or trauma, etc for accurate planning of intervention measures in order to enhance students' connectedness to school and build resilience. 3. To appropriately address concerns or issues faced by students such as but not limited to stress, mental health and socio-emotional wellbeing. To equip students with coping strategies to manage their concerns and apply them when needed. 4. To act as mentors to provide guidance, motivation, emotional support, coaching and role-modelling to students. 5. To customise engagement programmes at individual and group level for targeted students with agreement from the relevant stakeholders. To manage administrative load when working with external stakeholders / service providers in engagement of students and/or parents. Other examples of an engagement programme may include but not limited to: a. planning for a bridging programme for long-term absentee to return back to class. b. reflection-based and/or adventure-based activities that will contribute to positive student development and resilience. c. may also include providing an after-school care activities, after curriculum time to give additional engagement for at-risk students such as organizing a competition / games, problem-solving activities, cooking or singing workshop, etc. 6. To conduct home visits with school staff, meetings with stakeholders and make referrals where appropriate. 7. To ensure proper documentation to record counselling and engagement activities for individual students including summary of cases under his/her charge to be submitted at the end of each week. 8. To monitor, follow up and communicate with stakeholders from within the school e.g. form teachers, school leaders, etc when required. Communication with parents and relevant external agencies will be on an invitation basis and/or in the presence of the programme in-charge education officer. 9. To share counselling tips with teachers and other stakeholders at selected platforms at least once a term. Job Qualifications: = The candidate shall minimally have the following qualifications, skills and experience: 1. Preferably with a degree certification in counselling or equivalent qualification 2. Is currently receiving ongoing supervision from a trained supervisor 3. Candidates to have at least 1 year experience in counselling teenagers in Secondary Schools.