Job Description
Engage and provide support for students with at-risk behaviours. This includes (but is not limited to): To engage and support a number of identified at-risk students during school (where appropriate) as well as after school hours. Support can include exploring their goals and strengths, building their problem-solving and decision-making skills, and helping them manage relational conflicts. Working in collaboration with our team of school counsellors and Special Educational Needs (SEN) officers to respond to meltdowns or incidents in class for identified students. To provide pre and post-counselling support/reflections for students undergoing disciplinary consequences. To support counselling team in providing triaging and basic counselling support for other students where necessary. Strengthen ecosystem of support for identified at-risk students To engage and support parents of identified students with at-risk behaviours, supporting them on parenting matters (e.g. parent-child communication, managing their child’s behaviours, setting boundaries/routines); To connect parents of students with at-risk behaviours to relevant social agencies (e.g. FSC/FGO) where additional interventions are necessary. This may include working to shift mindsets of parents in seeking help and addressing their concerns. To curate parent workshops and reach out to specific parents to invite them. This would include partnering with the school’s Parents Support Group (PSG) to coordinate such workshops (Target: 1 workshop per term). To work in partnership with school staff, existing social agencies and/or medical professionals to bolster ecosystem of support for the identified students. Work in close collaboration with the school’s Student Development Team and existing partners To provide fortnightly updates (using school’s documentation template) to Head of Department/SEN on support provided for identified students and their parents, as well as any follow-up needed for students with related cou
