Social Worker Aldar Academies

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science/Education in Social Work

Minimum Experience

• Minimum of 1 year experience in school counselling or other counselling experience required

Job Specific Knowledge & Skills

• Appropriate license to carryout student counselling
• Strong interpersonal skills with both students and parents
• Demonstrable organizational skills
• 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.

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.