Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Job Purpose

The incumbent is a highly experienced mental health professional who is able to lead a therapeutic team of counsellors, therapists, associates and specialists to provide early identification and intervention services in the areas of psychological assessment, counselling, and support services to vulnerable children/youth and their families.

Job Responsibilities

Functional Responsibilities

To provide supervision, mentoring and training to clinicians like counsellors, therapists, associates, interns and youth workers.
To oversee psychological assessments, therapy and counselling services and contributing to programme development
To coordinate case review of clinicians like counsellors, therapists, associates and specialists.
To develop individualised treatment plans and provide evidence-based therapies like individual, group, or family therapy.
To manage complex cases with significant mental health challenges.
To provide crisis intervention and case management.
To provide consultations with stakeholders, while remaining involved in the care of the client, revising the treatment protocol as and when needed.
To conduct talks/workshops on selected mental health topics for the community (e.g. schools, parents, families, peer supporters, volunteers, other social service agencies).
To carry out work in a professional manner, including protecting the confidentiality of the sessions, and the clients.
To uphold the ethical practices and legal guidelines relating to client care.
To maintain detailed clinical records and reports of the client. This includes clients’ personal information, reports and proper documentation of all sessions and clients.
To ensure flexible working hours, according to the needs of the programmes and clients.
To work in close collaboration with the other staff of the Home and of the other components of Boys’ Town in matters pertaining to the welfare of the clients.
To participate in research to advance knowledge and stay current with evidence-based practices and professional standards.
To present research findings at conferences and contribute to publications.

Managerial Responsibilities

To assist the Director in maintaining documentation detailing service delivery, audit and governance, outcome measures, community contacts and referrals.
To lead in roadshows and community programmes in support of children and youth mental health.

Organisational Responsibilities

To participate actively in all fundraising activities as well as any other commitments that Boys' Town undertakes.
To work in close collaboration with other staff, department and components of Boys' Town.

The Executive Director and/or his/her representative may assign you any other duties that are within reason for the operation needs of Boys' Town.

Competencies Required

Planning & Coordinating – able to plan & coordinate
Communication – verbal & written
Interpersonal – able to communicate and interact with people, both individually and in group

Job Requirement

Masters in Counselling.
Registered Counsellor and Supervisor with the Singapore Association of Counsellors.
Minimum 5 years of relevant experience.
Extensive experience in clinical practice with diverse populations.
Expertise in evidence-based therapies and interventions.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Possess humility, emotional maturity, empathy and self-reflexive in working with client and with multiple stakeholders.
Energetic, dynamic and willingness to learn.
Strong commitment to professional ethics and integrity.
Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint.