School Counsellor

RESPONSIBILITIES • Help students enhance personal, social, and academic growth and wellbeing • Monitor the progress of individual students • Make contact with parents to discuss student behaviour or support needs • Take steps to prevent bullying and support victims of bullying • Help students understand and deal with social, behaviour, and personal problems • Deliver therapeutic intervention based on the need of the individuals and provide referral to external services as needed • Emphasize preventive and developmental counselling to provide students with life skills needed to deal with problems before they worsen and to enhance students personal, social, and academic growth. • Provide special services such as conflict resolution classes; identify cases of domestic abuse and other family problems that can affect a student s development