Job Purpose
The incumbent shall provide early identification and intervention in the areas of counselling, skill development and support services to vulnerable children/youth and their families.
Responsibilities
- To assess the individual needs of children/youth/family in the areas of family capacity, emotional stability, peer relations and community profile.
- To develop and implement intervention plans within programme guidelines in consultation with the Manager (CIC).
- To build and maintain a positive supportive relationship with children/youth and their parents/ families in the programme and provide direct intervention with them when required.
- To share the treatment/ intervention plan with caregivers, teachers, counsellors, social workers and other stakeholders, while remaining involved in the care of the client, revising the treatment protocol as and when needed.
- To execute intervention for clients to address their presenting issues.
- To build and maintain a positive supportive relationship with children/youth in the programme and provide direct intervention with the client when required.
- To maintain documentation detailing service plans, outcome measures, community contacts and referrals.
- To conduct counselling for clients. This involves working with their thought processes, feelings and behaviour. This can be done on an individual or group basis, with known and safe counselling and psychotherapy modalities that will help the clients’ process and overcome their behavioural, emotional and thinking issues.
- To provide counselling and work with parents of clients on their parenting skills as part of the treatment/ intervention plan
- To attend meetings, case conferences, case discussion and able to work well with all stakeholders in the clients’ system
- To protecting the confidentiality of the counselling sessions, and the clients.
- To keep proper case records of clients including clients’ personal information, reports and all other documentation of all sessions and clients.
- To provide coaching/ training to staff either individually or in group context.
- To conduct talks/ workshops on selected mental health topics for the community (e.g. schools, parents, families, peer supporters, volunteers, other social service agencies
- To participate in research as and when required
- To participate in roadshows and community programmes in support of children and youth mental health.
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree in Social Work with relevant qualifications in counselling OR Master in Counselling from an accredited institution
- Preferably minimum of 1 year of experience in counselling and working with children and/ or youth and their families
- Ability to work with multiple stakeholders in coordinating care for clients
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Possess humility, emotional maturity, empathy and self-reflexive in working with client
- Energetic and dynamic
- Willingness to learn
- Strong commitment to professional ethics and integrity
- Demonstrates passion for working with children and youth and complex psychosocial issues
- Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
