Roles & Responsibilities
A Counsellor is the team player in the Client Care Services team. The role is a professional on the ground, who provides crisis, trauma and suicide grief counselling, case management and other clinical tasks to the clients served.
He / she is expected to provide high quality clinical services through direct practice, for those who are suicidal, in crisis (inclusive of trauma) or have lost someone through suicide. These services will be delivered through face to face / online counselling, group work, special projects and programmes.
Duties and Responsibilities :
- Provide direct clinical services to suicidal individuals and their concerned parties as well as to suicide survivors over multi-modality approaches such as Counselling, Crisis Support, home visits, group work, phone calls and email.
- Participate or take lead in Organisational projects or task forces relating but not limited to core service, as assigned
- Represent the Organisation on community talks, training programmes or panel discussion to advocate or equip community on the topic of suicide
- Enhance his / her clinical knowledge and skills through active participation in the supervision; training, collaborative outreach with external professional group / agency and self-learning in order to provide up to standard clinical services to our clients
Educational Qualification :
Master of Counselling or Graduate Diploma in CounsellingRegistered Counsellor (preferred)Professional qualification / certificate in psychotherapy / therapeutic intervention model (preferred)Relevant Experience :
Possess at least 1 years of direct practice and counselling experienceMental Health / Grief CounsellingGroup work experienceCrisis Management / InterventionBehaviour Traits & Attitude :
Self-motivatedOrganized and efficientGood team playerPossess good interpersonal communication skillsWilling to work in the evenings and during odd hours in accordance to service needsStrong analytic and problem solving skills (preferred)Tell employers what skills you have
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Psychology
Psychotherapy
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Counseling
Crisis Intervention
Interventions
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Mental Health
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Wellbeing
Crisis Management
Team Player
Case Management