School Counselor (Social and Wellbeing) - Yas American Academy

Main Duties:

• Help students enhance personal, social, and academic growth
• Monitor the progress of individual students
• Make contact with parents to discuss student behavior
• 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, behavior, and personal problems
• Emphasize preventive and developmental counseling 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 Counseling:

• Identifies areas that would be appropriate for intervention in the form of group counseling and regularly forms and leads appropriate groups.
• Utilizes both large (classroom) groups and small groups to make appropriate academic and behavioral interventions.

Career Counseling:

• Coordinates with the Counsellors regarding career options for students and provides appropriate information to students regarding careers.
• Assists the counselors 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 Counseling:

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