Counselor

Role Overview

Responsibilities

• 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, behavioral, 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.
• Identify areas appropriate for intervention in the form of group counseling and regularly form and lead appropriate groups.
• Utilize both large (classroom) groups and small groups to make appropriate academic and behavioral interventions.
• Coordinate with the Counsellors regarding career options for students and provide appropriate information to students regarding careers.
• Assist 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Psychology, Social Worker or Counseling.
• Minimum of two years' postgraduate experience as School Counselor.
• CDC License.
• Recent and consistent involvement in extra-curricular activities.
• Respect for all members of your school community.
• Experience with students for whom English is an additional language.
• A positive and solution-focused attitude to working life.
• A clean enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services or Police check.

What We Offer

• ADNOC Schools offer an attractive remuneration package.
• The future-focused learning model includes both students and staff, with special emphasis on professional development, coaching, and training.
• Successful candidates will have access to a wide network of professionals and opportunities to lead and contribute to training others as well as developing themselves.

Application

• Interested applicants should forward a one-side A4 letter of interest and most recent resume/CV.
• ADNOC Schools are committed to the safeguarding of children and young people, and any offer of appointment will be subject to relevant medical checks and clearance from appropriate safeguarding authorities.