School Counsellor

**Reference Number**
- 16229

**Closing Date**
- 2023-04-30

**Location**
- Roodepoort

**Position Type**
- Permanent

**Job Title**
- School Counsellor

**Availability / Start Date**
- 1 May 2023

**Synopsis**
- Curro is a warm and welcoming place to work. It is a place where you can contribute to the lives of children and see them grow into the leaders of tomorrow. Join Curro Academy Wilgeheuwel as a School Counsellor to start on 01 May 2023

**Minimum Requirements**
- An appropriate academic and professional education qualification from a recognised tertiary institution
- Relevant experience in a similar position
- **COVID19 Vaccination Certificate is essential**:

- A passion for children
- Excellent planning, organisational and administrative skills
- An energetic positive approach to their vocation
- Patience and compassion to work with sick or injured children.
- The skills to deal with children, parents and staff.
- Remain calm in any situation yet solve problems quickly in an emergency.
- Will be responsible for:
- Carrying out counselling sessions on an individual, group or class level as part of an integrated preventive and intervention service
- Contributing in an active manner to the development of the school counselling programme in support of the holistic development of each student
- Assisting in the development and nurture of an enabling school culture and helping students become empowered for positive action and change
- Intervening to give students the opportunity to manage more effectively their life circumstances and to manage their lives more effectively
- Assisting students to develop their personal, social, and autonomous learning skills
- Counselling students and their parents with respect to intra
- and inter-personal issues and behaviourial problems
- Preparing reports and maintaining records on students
- Making the necessary referrals according to established policies and procedures
- Adopting preventive measures that empower students to avoid problems as much as possible
- Providing a continuum of preventative, developmental, remedial, and intervention services and programmes and facilitating referral to resources and services at both community and national levels
- A clear criminal record is essential
- Personal commitment to Christian education and a willingness to contribute to the values and ethos of the School is essential

**Advert Description**
- You will only be required to submit supporting documents should you be invited for an interview.
- Curro Holdings Ltd reserves the right to not make an appointment.

**_ Curro is an equal opportunity employer_