Part-Time Youth Worker |School

Job Description

Job Description & Requirements

a) Outreach and engagement

Engage and build positive relationships with identified students

during and/or outside of curriculum hours;

Engage and connect with higher needs students in community

settings outside of school compounds;

Engage, motivate and equip students with knowledge and skills

to build socio-emotional skills and overcome life challenges;

Conduct emotional management workshops for identified

students to equip students with skills on how to better manage

their emotions;

Empower students with responsibilities and platforms to

contribute back to the community/school and be meaningfully

engaged;

Work with school staff, in the crafting and implementation of the

programme for high-needs students.

b) Case management and family engagement

Provide case planning, management and counselling support

customised to needs of students and families;

Plan and conduct family engagement and intervention such as

family sessions, telephone contact or home visits aligned with

student's needs.

c) Assessment and student identification

Observe and identify key needs of students;

Usage of identification and screening tools to assess students

needs, when required;

To discuss needs and intervention plans of identified students

with relevant school personnel (Eg. Student management team

personnel and school leaders).

d) School collaboration

Co-create and implement a regular after-school engagement

programme for students who need greater after-school

supervision, working with the GEAR-UP Committee members.

Foster a sense of school connectedness and sense of belonging

to the school, by utilising the affordances of the SPACE Room to

build positive relationships with students.

Provide relevant feedback and progress of students to school

personnel;

Provide support and consultation to school teachers on students

needs and challenges.

e) Social Work Intervention (for identified students)

Equip students with socio-emotional skills that develop

students' confidence, character and self-leadership through a

hands-on, class-based programme such as The Scaffold

Programme;

Enable students to translate their learning from the

programme into multiple contexts including the home, class

and community settings, thereby improving parent-child,

teacher-student and peer relationships and sense of

belonging to these multiple environments.