Youth Worker |School|Tampines

WSH Experts Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A student support organization in Singapore is seeking a motivated individual to provide counseling and mentoring to students in need. The role includes building rapport, identifying underlying issues affecting students, and customizing engagement programs. The ideal candidate should have strong counseling skills and a passion for supporting students’ emotional wellbeing. This position offers opportunities to make a positive impact in a school environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in student counselling and engagement.
• Ability to conduct home visits and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of socio-emotional wellbeing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Engage with students to build rapport and understand their needs.
• Identify underlying issues affecting students’ education.
• Plan and implement intervention measures to enhance students’ school connectedness.
• Provide mentoring and emotional support to at-risk students.
• Document counselling activities and monitor progress.

Skills

Counselling skills

Emotional support

Mentoring

Communication

Job description

Job Description

To meet up with students who require intervention, to engage and interact to build rapport with students, and to use counselling skills and 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 wellbeing; to equip students with coping strategies to manage their concerns and apply them when needed.

To act as a mentor 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, and 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 are 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.
• Providing after‑school care activities and after‑curriculum time to give additional engagement for at‑risk students, such as organising 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 a 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, and to communicate with parents and relevant external agencies 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.