What your role will entail: With Children

- Doing Classroom Observations (for whole class and/or individual)
- Identifying children with socio-emotional, behavioral and learning difficulties
- Supporting children who require critical therapeutic intervention due to a traumatic event/reported abuse. Conducting One-on-one sessions with children and parents referred for counseling
- Facilitating Small group sessions (focussed groups) for children/parents with similar needs/concerns
- Conducting workshops/sessions with children in classrooms on relevant topics like Personal Safety Education, socio-emotional skills or sessions addressing the developmental needs (e.g. sessions on self awareness, communication, compassion)
- Documentation of cases and initiatives

With Teachers, Social Workers and School Leaders

- Capacity building of teachers to support children in the classroom.
- Regularly briefing the teachers, social workers and School Leaders about the status and progress of the children who are undergoing counseling.
- Collaborating with the school social worker to ensure necessary follow ups are done for individual counseling cases and for child safety cases
- Facilitating sessions in every school with the aim of building teacher, social worker and school leader awareness on child development (socio-emotional development) and child safety
- Co-planning and Leading Youth Development Spaces within school (like CT, Empowerment, Advisory,



Student Council etc) along with the School Leadership Outside the Schools and With the Community
- Conducting home visits and meeting parents to work in collaboration to support the child
- Visiting homes in the community with the aim of understanding the family, its dynamics and other aspects which affect the children
- Capacity building of parents to help them address their concerns and build their parenting skills
- Working with the Social worker and collaborating with parents as partners in the child's development.

Network level Support

- Advocating Student Voice and Wellbeing
- Contributing by leading or volunteering for project by planning, designing modules, facilitating, supporting research work etc
- Facilitating workshops for external agencies as a part of the outreach multiplier programmes Collaborations With External Agencies
- Coordinating with government hospitals for psychoeducational testing, Speech therapy, Occupational therapy
- Collaborating with external experts for counseling of cases of severe distress or abuse.
- Collaborating with external experts for conducting capacity building sessions for the teachers and parents

Job Types : Full time, Permanent

Pay: Up to ₹37,000.00 per month

Benefits :

- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Provident Fund

Schedule:

- Day shift

Work Location: In person

📌 School Counselor (Pune)
🏢 The Akanksha Foundation
📍 Pune