Senior Personal Counselor
zayed university
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :14 years, 6 أشهر
• Offer a range of psychosocial services including to, but not limited to: (a) assessments such as learning styles, level of functioning, etc. (b) intakes, (c) counseling on a one-on-one or group basis; (d) assessing student needs to develop, market, and facilitate a wide range of psycho educational and peer support services.
• Initiates, develops, evaluates, markets, and facilitates a variety of services and support groups to aid students being more successful in their personal learning, personal growth, and university experience. This includes, but is not limited to, offering programs focused on enhancing students’: (a) stress management abilities, (b) ability to handle stressful/challenging situations more effectively; (c) academic functioning; (d) interpersonal and intrapersonal functioning.
• Initiates peer support groups on campus and offers supervision to these groups.
• Provides crisis intervention, referral to external professionals, and appropriately conducts follow ups of these cases.
• Initiates and maintains contacts external contacts with relevant professionals in the field who are in a position to provide potential psychosocial support to ZU students.
• Sets up an atmosphere of trust, confidentiality, and respect to encourage parents, faculty and staff of the University to seek consultation and/or referral related to enhancing students experience on campuses. .
• Assists the Student Affairs Division in all major programs such as New Student Orientation, New Parent Orientation, Registration, Prospective Student Day, Study Abroad Programs, Parents’ evening, Careers and Activity days etc., as directed by the Supervisor, Student Services.
• Maintains appropriate file notes that are appropriate for the situation. Ensures all file notes are kept confidential and are locked at all times.
• Maintains weekly statistics on services performed each week that are compiled into an annual report. Data collection entails, but is not limited to: number of clients seen; type of problems; duration of sessions; number of sessions per client; effectives of services; new program development; attendance at event.
• Supervision of at least one intern per semester from the College of Education.
• Counsel students to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their educational or vocational situations.
• Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools.
• Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss children's progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their resource needs.
• Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
• Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
• Evaluate students' or individuals' abilities, interests, and personality characteristics using tests, records, interviews, or professional sources.
• Identify cases of domestic abuse or other family problems and encourage students or parents to seek additional assistance from mental health professionals.
• Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning.
• Meet with employees to obtain data required for creating career development programs and for resolving career development matters.
• Meet with employees as part of the Employee Assistance Program for personal counseling needs.
• Administer and interpret tests designed to determine the interests, aptitudes and abilities of employees and develop relevant reports.
• Follow up with employees to ensure their proper growth as a result of adherence to career development plans and to measure the effectiveness of the career development tools applied.
• Counsel Employees in individual or group sessions to assist them in dealing with substance abuse, mental or physical illness.
• Interview employees, review records, conduct assessments, or confer with other professionals to evaluate the mental or physical condition of employees.
• Monitor, evaluate, and record client progress with respect to treatment goals
• Participates with interdisciplinary team members in developing and implementing program policies and procedures
• Provides ongoing clinical consultation, direct services and supervision of clinical staff.
• Provides direct services to students using CASAC skills.
• Evaluates staff and addresses performance issues.
• Identifies systemic problems in patient service delivery and determines appropriate patient services role for each professional discipline.
• Coordinates integration of school programs and multi-disciplinary health related programs.
• Ensures that documentation, billing and services provided meet funding sources requirements.
• Participates and occasionally presents at PA meetings, teacher meetings, assemblies, etc. around topics relevant to children’s mental health
• Consults with teachers/administrators on student problems in the classroom. Provides information on psychosocial issues related to class behavior, especially issues that relate to health concerns.
• Acts as main liaison between clinic and school administration.
• Is competent to provide care to patients based upon the age groups treated.
• Ensures that all patients, visitors, guests, as well as co-workers, receive personalized, prompt attention and are treated with receptiveness, dignity and respect, no matter how limited the contact.
• Performs other related duties, as required