Social Counselor
Job Description
Job Description
- Use interviews, counseling sessions, interest, and aptitude assessment tests, and other methods to evaluate and advise students and social development problems or special needs
- Help students enhance personal, social, and academic growth and to Monitor the progress of individual students
- Must possess high emotional and physical energy to handle the array of problems addressed
- Use technology effectively and efficiently to plan, organize, implement and evaluate the comprehensive school counseling program
- Collaborate with parents, teachers, and administrators to create learning environments that promote educational equity and success for every student
- Conducts individual and group counseling sessions e.g. study problems, adjustment, resolving and communication
- Liaises with students’ families and community agencies as appropriate
- Designs and conducts Student Development Workshops on relevant student-centered topics (i.e. Time Management, Conflict Resolution, Leadership, Team Building, and Goal Setting)
- Assists students with special needs and medical conditions and advocates with supervisors and faculty as needed
- Participates in campus programs related to students’ success in particular: New Student Orientation, Peer Tutoring Programs, Health and Wellness Activities
- Plans, organizes, implements and evaluates a school counseling program
- Contacts parents to discuss learners’ behavioral issues and on progress
- Takes proper measures to prevent bullying and support victims of bullying
- Helps learners develop job search skills, such as resume writing and interviewing techniques
- Helps learners understand and deal with social, behavioral, and personal problems
- Emphasizes preventive and developmental counseling to provide learners with life skills needed to deal with problems before they worsen and to enhance learners’ personal, social, and academic growth
- Provides special services such as conflict resolution classes and identifying cases of domestic abuse or other family problems that can affect a learner’s development
- Conducts individual and group counseling sessions
- Utilizes both large groups and small groups to make appropriate academic and behavioral interventions
- Designs and conducts Learner Development Workshops on relevant learner-centered topics (i.e. time management, conflict resolution, leadership, team building, and goal setting)
- Maintains an awareness of cultural influences regarding social development of adolescents
- Monitors learners who may be at risk with regards to social issues and make appropriate referrals for interventions outside of school in consultation with parents or guardians
- Maintains confidentiality as professionally appropriate with regards to learners’ wellbeing
- Actively participates in and support whole-school training events
- Provides guidance and advice to learners on educational and social matters
- Maintains a clear distinction between personal values and professional ethics
- Maintains discipline in accordance with the rules and disciplinary system of the institute/ school
- Upholds the Code of Conduct and all school policies
Skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Counseling, Psychology or related field
- Health Education Qualification- an asset
- Master’s Degree-preferred
- Strong interpersonal skills with both students and parents
- Demonstrable organizational skills
- Strong desire to help others and should be able to inspire respect, trust, and confidence
- IC3
· 3-year experience in a reputable institute/school
- Commitment to the highest standards of professional practice
- Demonstrated ability to enhance learning through effective integration
- Excellent relationship management skills with learners, parents and the wider school community
- Excellent organizational and planning skills
- Excellent Communication and Interpersonal Skills
- Time Management
- Display a high level of cultural sensitivity in response to the needs of learners and peers
- Demonstrated ability to apply knowledge and skills from their discipline to real-world situations
