Job Scope:
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.
2. To help identify the underlying issues to enhance students’ connectedness to school and build resilience.
3. To appropriately address concerns or issues faced by students, equipping them 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.
9. To share counselling tips with teachers and other stakeholders at
selected platforms at least once a term.
Working Arrangement:
Location: Woodlands
Working Hours:
- Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays: 8:00am to 4:00pm (inclusive of 1hr compulsory lunch break)
- Wednesdays: 9:00am to 4:00pm (inclusive of 1hr compulsory lunch break)
- Estimated number of working hours per week = 34 hours
- Service not required on Saturdays, Sundays and gazetted public holidays
Salary: $40-50/H
Job Requirements:
1. Preferably with a degree certification in counselling or equivalent qualification;
2. Experience in counselling or working with teenagers.
EA License No.: 96C4864 (Shanice Lim Xin Ni)
Reg. No.: R22110485