Youth Worker |School |Tampines

The Services required are set out as follows:

1. 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 microsystem of the students.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. To act as mentors to provide guidance, motivation, emotional support,

coaching and role-modelling to students.

5. To customise engagement programmes at individual and group level

for targeted students with agreement from the relevant stakeholders.

Examples of an engagement programme may include but not limited

to:

a. planning for a bridging programme for long-term absentee to return

back to class.

b. reflection-based and/or adventure-based activities that will

contribute to positive student development and resilience.

c. 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.

6. To conduct home visits with school staff, meetings with stakeholders

and make referrals where appropriate.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. To manage administrative load when working with external

stakeholders / service providers in engagement of students and/or

parents.

10. To share counselling tips with teachers and other stakeholders at

selected platforms at least once a term.

The candidate should also

• be able to engage students using current digital communication

platforms e.g. whatsapp, Instagram, telegram, etc.

• be competent to handle the tasks and responsibilities assigned

• abide by the ethical standards for counsellors and continuously

improve his / her professional practice through ongoing supervision

and professional development;

• follow school’s Standard Operating Procedures with regard to

consultation with and feedback to relevant school personnel on

students counselled, dealing with parents;

• respect that the counselling records of students are the property of the

school and that the records, both in hardcopy or softcopy would not be

taken out of school at any time without permission of the school.

• comply with the Expectations of Instructors (Annex C). Failure to

adhere to the Expectations of Instructors may result in Contract

termination.

• sign undertaking to safeguard official information