Job Description
General Duties
- 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.
- To help identify precisely the underlying issues such as social or emotional disadvantages, discrimination, poverty or trauma, etc for accurate planning of intervention measures in order to enhance students’ connectedness to school and build resilience.
- 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.
- To act as mentors to provide guidance, motivation, emotional support, coaching and role-modelling to students.
- 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:
- Planning for a bridging programme for long-term absentee to return back to class.
- Reflection-based and/or adventure-based activities that will contribute to positive student development and resilience.
- 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.
- To conduct home visits with school staff, meetings with stakeholders and make referrals where appropriate.
- 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.
- 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.
- To share counselling tips with teachers and other stakeholders at selected platforms at least once a term
Other Duties
- Able to engage students using current digital communication platforms e.g. WhatsApp, Instagram, telegram, etc.
- Competent in handling the tasks and responsibilities assigned
- Abide by the ethical standards for counsellors and continuously
- improve his / her professional practice through ongoing supervision and professional development
- Follow school’s Standard Operating Procedures with regard to consultation with and feedback to relevant school personnel on students counselled, dealing with parents
Requirements
- Preferably with a degree certification in counselling or equivalent qualification;
- Preferably is currently receiving ongoing supervision from a trained supervisor;
- Candidates to have at least 1 year experience in counselling or working with teenagers in Secondary Schools
Working hours
- Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays: 7:30am to 4:30pm (inclusive of 1hr compulsory lunch break)
- Wednesdays: 8:30am to 4:30pm (inclusive of 1hr compulsory lunch break)
- Estimated number of working hours per week = 39 hours
- Service not required on Saturdays, Sundays and gazetted public holidays
Working locations
- (School environment)
Additional info:
- Contract Period: From 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025
- With option to extend (Discretion)
- This is an outsourced role
If you are what we are looking for & keen to apply, kindly send in your resume (in MS Word format) to Fadhilah at [email protected] | 64941546
All Curriculum Vitaes will be treated with the strictest confidentiality. We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
“This is in partnership with the Employment and Employability Institute Pte Ltd (“e2i”).
e2i is the empowering network for workers and employers seeking employment and employability solutions. e2i serves as a bridge between workers and employers, connecting with workers to offer job security through job-matching, career guidance and skills upgrading services, and partnering employers to address their manpower needs through recruitment, training, and job redesign solutions. e2i is a tripartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress set up to support nation-wide manpower and skills upgrading initiatives. By applying for this role, you consent to RMA Groups’ PDPA and e2i’s PDPA.
Norfadhilah Awang
EA License No. 93C4403
EA Regn. No. R24120699
