Senior Counsellor

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Care Corner Singapore Ltd was founded in 1981, in a climate of changes in the early 1980s, as economic competition in the region intensified and the rift between the wealthy and the lower-income in particular the Chinese blue-collar workers, widened. Rev Tan Tien Ser and a group of passionate individuals believed that these marginalised people with lower income and little opportunities for a formal education could be helped to realise their potential and become more competent and fulfilled persons. Through a series of early outreach initiatives, Care Corner has evolved into an organisation offering a wide range of programmes and services delivered through various social service centres located island-wide. In a bid to stay relevant to the needs of the community, Care Corner has continuously strived to offer new and innovative programmes to support those in need and the less privileged.

DESIGNATION : Senior Counsellor

RESPONSIBILITIES

**1.**
**JOB PURPOSE**
- Build resilience thinking and strategies to function as effective problem solvers.
- Integrate a positive sense of self, in which an individual believes in their right to be cared for, safe and protected and to have positive and socially appropriate social agency over their life.
- Engage with and function in socially appropriate and positive familial, social network and community network roles.

**2. **JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**

**To assist the Manager/Reporting Officer in the following areas**:

- Independently provide family counselling support for individuals, families and groups in moderate high complexity cases
- Oversee case and care planning for the Centre
- Independently lead the group work / programme interventions and formulate trends and issues in group work / programmes that need to be escalated at the system level
- Review research evidences and develop group work / programme activities based on best practices
- Provide clinical supervision to junior counsellors and/or group supervision for assistant senior counsellors /peers, engage in mentorship activities to facilitate professional development and quality service delivery by peers, junior staff, professionals-in-training and other professionals within the organization
- Perform training needs analysis for teams/Centre, independently develop and lead training within organization and external platforms and supervise junior practitioners in internal training
- Drive practice related development for service group and vocation within organization and develop data research and collection strategies as part of research, programme and services evaluation efforts
- Perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor to support the objectives of the organization
- Represent Care Corner in external working committees and meetings for senior practitioners.

**3. **JOB REQUIREMENTS**
- A minimum qualification of a SAC recognized Master’s Degree in Counselling
- a. At least 3-5 years of relevant counselling experience in education, counselling, social work, or related work involving family, parents and children, and have experience in conducting training and workshop

b. Passion for parenting work to strengthen family life

c. Skills in couple counselling, conflict resolution and problem-solving to crisis situations
- a. Proficiency with PowerPoint presentation

b. Experience in conducting workshop and counselling via Zoom and MS team platform

c. Proficiency in using cloud and shared drive

**What We Offer**:

- Care Corner is ‘Great Place to Work’ certified
- Strong emphasis on professional development
- In-house and external training opportunities

QUALIFICATIONS

A minimum qualification of a SAC recognized Master’s Degree in Counselling