School Youth Worker (Tampines)

Business Edge Personnel Services; Singapore; On-site; SGD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading education service provider in Singapore seeks a Counsellor to support students through engagement and mentoring. The ideal candidate will have a degree in counselling, experience with teenagers, and strong interpersonal skills. Responsibilities include conducting home visits and ensuring proper documentation of counselling activities. This full-time role requires commitment to ethical standards and effective communication with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in counselling or working with teenagers is preferred.
• Ability to use current digital communication platforms.
• Commitment to ethical standards for counselors.

Responsibilities

• Engage with students to build rapport and understand their issues.
• Conduct home visits and stakeholder meetings as needed.
• Provide mentorship and emotional support to students.
• Ensure documentation of counselling activities.

Skills

Counselling skills

Engagement techniques

Digital communication

Education

Degree in counselling or equivalent

Job description

Job Scope:

• To meet up with students who require intervention. To engage and interact to build rapport with students. To use counselling skills & techniques to encourage the discussions of emotions and experiences, so as to understand the educational macro- and micro-system of the students.
• To help identify precisely the underlying issues such as social or emotional disadvantages, discrimination, poverty or trauma, etc for accurate planning of intervention measures in order to enhance students’ connectedness to school and build resilience.
• To appropriately address concerns or issues faced by students such as but not limited to stress, mental health, and socio-emotional well-being. To equip students with coping strategies to manage their concerns and apply them when needed.
• To act as mentors to provide guidance, motivation, emotional support, coaching and role-modelling to students.
• To customise engagement programmes at individual and group level for targeted students with agreement from the relevant stakeholders. To manage administrative load when working with external stakeholders / service providers in engagement of students and/or parents. Other examples of an engagement programme may include but not limited to:

• planning for a bridging programme for long-term absentee to return back to class.
• reflection-based and/or adventure-based activities that will contribute to positive student development and resilience.
• provide an after-school care activities, after curriculum time to give additional engagement for at-risk students such as organizing a competition / games, problem-solving activities, cooking or singing workshop, etc.

• To conduct home visits with school staff, meetings with stakeholders and make referrals where appropriate.
• To ensure proper documentation to record counselling and engagement activities for individual students including summary of cases under his/her charge to be submitted at the end of each week.
• To monitor, follow up and communicate with stakeholders from within the school e.g. form teachers, school leaders, etc when required. Communication with parents and relevant external agencies will be on an invitation basis and/or in the presence of the programme in-charge education officer.
• To share counselling tips with teachers and other stakeholders at selected platforms at least once a term.

Requirements:

• Preferably with a degree certification in counselling or equivalent qualification;
• Experience in counselling or working with teenagers.
• Able to engage students using current digital communication platforms
• Abide by the ethical standrards for counsellors and continously
• Be competent to handle the tasks and responsibilities assigned

Working Hours: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays: 8.00am to 4.00pm (inclusive of 1hr compulsory lunch break), Wednesdays: 9.00am to 4.00pm (inclusive of 1hr compulsory lunch break)

Contract Period: 1 Jan 2026 to 31 Dec 2026

Location: Tampines

EA License No: 96C4864

Reg. No.: R24121728 EUNICE WOO JING QI