Social Worker - UAEN

The successful candidates will be closely aligned with our core values and ethos and possess a genuine understanding and appreciation of the values of the region.

REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science/Education in Social Work
• Minimum of 1 year experience in school counselling or other counselling experience required

Job Specific Knowledge & Skill

• Appropriate license to carry out student counselling
• Strong interpersonal skills with both students and parents
• 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
• Ability to work under pressure, problem-solve, deal with challenging situations and be resilient
• Commitment to continuing professional development (CPD)
• A clean enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services check or police check

Main Duties

• Help students enhance personal, social, and academic growth
• Monitor the progress of individual students
• Make contact with parents to discuss student behaviour
• 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, behaviour, and personal problems
• 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

Specific Duties

Group counselling:

• Identifies areas that would be appropriate for intervention in the form of group counselling and regularly forms and leads appropriate groups.
• Utilizes both large (classroom) groups and small groups to make appropriate academic and behavioural interventions.
• Coordinates with the Counsellors regarding career options for students and provides appropriate information to students regarding careers.
• Assists the counsellors 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.

Personal Counselling:

• Works with individual students and groups of students in regards to appropriate social development issues.
• Maintains an awareness of cultural influences regarding social development of adolescents.
• Monitors students who may be at risk in regards to social issues and makes appropriate referrals for interventions outside of school in consultation with parents.

Company Industry

• Education
• Training
• Teaching

Department / Functional Area

• Teaching
• Education

Keywords

• Social Worker - UAEN