Counsellor/Social Worker – Strengthening Families Programme
Allkin Singapore (formerly known as AMKFSC Community Services) is a community-driven social service agency that believes everyone has the potential to create positive change, regardless of age, race, or background. Through our service offerings, strategic partnerships, and community initiatives, we unlock opportunities for vulnerable individuals and families to overcome life's challenges, build a brighter future, and inspire others to do the same.
Roles & Responsibilities
You will be part of our FAM@FSC team to support families and individuals to enhance their resilience, psychological functioning and family relationships. The job scope include:
- To work directly with individuals, couples, families and children to provide counselling services.
- To work with divorced/divorcing parents to address co-parenting disputes.
- To facilitate supervised visitation sessions with child(ren) and Visiting Parents for acrimonious divorce cases.
- To conduct psycho-educational and therapeutic groupwork programmes for parents and children.
- To maintain proper case documentation and programme statistics and adhere to professional practice standards.
- To prepare reports to Family Justice Court for court mandated cases.
- To perform other duties as assigned.
Job requirements
Technical Competencies:
- For counsellor position:
- A minimum qualification of a master’s degree in counselling recognized by Singapore Association of Counselling (SAC)
- Registered clinical member with SAC (or in the process of applying).
- For social worker position:
- A minimum qualification of a recognised bachelor’s degree in social work (or higher).
- Registered social worker with SWAAB (or in the process of applying).
- At least 3 years of work experiences.
- Experiences in marital and parenting counselling.
- Ability to assess and manage risks (family violence, child abuse and suicide) when it is detected.
Core Competencies:
- Able to work closely with other professionals within and outside the agency to provide holistic and effective therapeutic and groupwork services.
- Able to work with highly conflictual couples and families.
- Able to work on Saturdays and some weekday evenings.
Preferred achievements / characteristics:
- Good coordination and collaborative skills.
- Fluent in another language such as Mandarin, Malay or Tamil will be useful.
- Excellent team player with good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Competent in Microsoft applications such as Excel, Word, PPT, etc.
