✨ AI Summary
Mubarak Bin Mohammed (Cycle 2) Charter School in Abu Dhabi, an American curriculum school, is seeking an outstanding School Counsellor to start immediately in January 2024. The role involves assisting students with personal, family, educational, mental health, or career problems, advocating for them, and promoting their academic, career, personal, and social development. Counsellors will conduct interviews and assessments, deliver therapeutic and supportive interventions for social/emotional challenges, and emphasize preventive and developmental counselling.
Key duties include enhancing student wellbeing, monitoring progress, contacting parents regarding student needs, preventing and supporting bullying victims, and developing job search skills for older students. Specific duties cover career counselling, including university application coordination, and personal mental health counselling, ensuring culturally sensitive therapy delivery and appropriate external referrals when necessary.
Requirements
Minimum qualifications include a Bachelor of Science/Education in Social Work, Bachelor of Counselling, or Bachelor of Psychology with subsequent post-graduate counselling qualifications. A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience is required, along with an appropriate license to carry out student counselling. Candidates must possess strong interpersonal, organizational skills, high emotional/physical energy, and maintain the highest levels of confidentiality and professionalism.
Description
Mubarak Bin Mohammed ( Cycle 2 ) Charter School is an American curriculum, mixed gender primary school located in a state of the art building in the heart of Abu Dhabi. We strive for excellence in all that we do through our high expectations and commitment to ensuring that we provide high quality learning opportunities for our students. Our vision is to create “A sustainable and innovative learning community, where we nurture our learners through Collaboration, Leadership and Creativity”. This vision is supported by the MBMC2 Learner and Teacher DNA which is at the heart of the school community. This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar family of schools and to help shape the future of Abu Dhabi’s leading school group.