Part-Time Youth Worker |School |Hougang

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.