Job Description
The Services required are set out as follows: 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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 th