School counsellor
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Update day: 31-05-2024
Location: Pune Maharashtra
Category: Education / Training Social Work / Community Services
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The Akanksha Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to provide
children from low-income communities with a high-quality education, enabling them
to maximize their potential and transform their lives. Akanksha works primarily in the
field of education, addressing formal education by initiating school reform through its
School Project. Akanksha currently serves 10,000 children and 4000 alumni, through
its 26 schools in Pune, Mumbai & Nagpur Metropolitan Regions in partnership with
the municipalities.
Position: School Counselor
Function/Team: Counseling
Location: Kalewadi, Bopkhel.
Compensation: Based on skill sets, experience and sector standards.
Reporting Manager: School Leader
Supporting Manager: City Lead Counselor
Position Summary: As an Akanksha Counselor, while you will work to meet the
needs of students with specific social/ emotional challenges and/or disabilities, you
will also work with schools and key stakeholders to build spaces where different
learners thrive in an inclusive classroom setting, where learning is holistic.
A key unique factor of the role is to support the schools from the lens of a “whole
school approach”. Student Voice and Wellbeing form the foundation of this approach.
This will involve addressing the needs of learners, staff and the wider community and
building the capacity of key stakeholders to ensure the overall wellbeing of children.
As a part of the counseling team, you will also be designing and facilitating modules
and professional development sessions across the network.
A counselor will visit the allocated schools within the city
What your role will entail:
With Children
● Doing Classroom Observations (for whole class and/or individual)
● Identifying children with socio-emotional, behavioral and learning difficulties
● Supporting children who require critical therapeutic intervention due to a
traumatic event/reported abuse. Conducting One-on-one sessions with
children and parents referred for counseling
● Facilitating Small group sessions (focussed groups) for children/parents
with similar needs/concerns
● Conducting workshops/sessions with children in classrooms on relevant
topics like Personal Safety Education, socio-emotional skills or sessions
addressing the developmental needs (e.g. sessions on self awareness,
communication, compassion)
● Documentation of cases and initiatives
With Teachers, Social Workers and School Leaders
● Capacity building of teachers to support children in the classroom.
● Regularly briefing the teachers, social workers and School Leaders about the
status and progress of the children who are undergoing counseling.
● Collaborating with the school social worker to ensure necessary follow ups are
done for individual counseling cases and for child safety cases
● Facilitating sessions in every school with the aim of building teacher, social
worker and school leader awareness on child development (socio-emotional
development) and child safety
● Co-planning and Leading Youth Development Spaces within school (like CT,
Empowerment, Advisory, Student Council etc) alongwith the School Leadership
Outside the Schools and With the Community
● Conducting home visits and meeting parents to work in collaboration to
support the child
● Visiting homes in the community with the aim of understanding the family, its
dynamics and other aspects which affect the children
● Capacity building of parents to help them address their concerns and build
their parenting skills
● Working with the Social worker and collaborating with parents as partners in
the child’s development.
Network level Support
● Advocating Student Voice and Wellbeing
● Contributing by leading or volunteering for project by planning, designing
modules, facilitating, supporting research work etc
● Facilitating workshops for external agencies as a part of the outreach
multiplier programmes
Collaborations With External Agencies
● Coordinating with government hospitals for psychoeducational testing,
Speech therapy, Occupational therapy
● Collaborating with external experts for counseling of cases of severe
distress or abuse.
● Collaborating with external experts for conducting capacity building
sessions for the teachers and parents
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: ₹35,000.00 - ₹37,000.00 per month
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Provident Fund
Schedule:
- Day shift
Experience:
- total work: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: In person
Deadline: 15-07-2024
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