School Counsellor Full Time

Main accountabilities:

• Help students enhance personal, social, and academic growth and wellbeing
• Monitor the progress of individual students
• Make contact with parents to discuss student behavior or support needs
• Take steps to prevent bullying and support victims of bullying
• Help students develop job search skills, such as resume writing and interviewing techniques
• Help students understand and deal with social, behavior, and personal problems
• Deliver therapeutic intervention based on the need of the individuals and provide referral to external services as needed
• Emphasize preventive and developmental counselling to provide students with life skills needed to deal with problems before they worsen and to enhance students’ personal, social, and academic growth.
• Provide special services such as conflict resolution classes; identify cases of domestic abuse and other family problems that can affect a student’s development

Career Counselling:

• Works with students regarding career options and provides appropriate information to students regarding careers.
• Assists in providing students with information for career exploration and selection to assist them in making appropriate academic course selections relating to their interests.
• Maintains an appropriate library/database relating to various careers for students to utilize in their career explorations.
• Coordinate access to university affairs and with university applications.

Personal Mental Health Counselling:

• Works with individual students and groups of students in regards to appropriate social, emotional and development issues.
• Maintains an awareness of cultural influences regarding social development of adolescents and delivers culturally sensitive therapies.
• Monitors students who may be at risk in regards to social and emotional issues and makes appropriate referrals for interventions outside of school in consultation with parents.
• Promotes wellbeing of students via whole school and community awareness initiatives.
• Works closely with the pastoral team and safeguarding leads.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science/Education in Social Work
• Bachelor of Counselling
• Bachelor of Psychology – with subsequent post graduate counselling qualifications

Minimum Experience:

• Minimum of 2 years experience in school counselling or other counselling experience required

Job Specific Knowledge & Skills:

• Appropriate license to carryout student counselling.
• 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.
• Must possess high emotional and physical energy to handle the array of problems addressed.
• Maintains the highest levels of confidentiality and professionalism.